"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." - John Gilmore; TIME magazine (6 December 1993)
OONI, the Open Observatory of Network Interference, is a global observation network which aims is to collect high quality data using open methodologies, using Free and Open Source Software (FL/OSS) to share observations and data about the various types, methods, and amounts of network tampering in the world.
To run OONI-probe without having to install it you must tell python that it can import modules from the root of ooni-probe, as well as initialize the included submodules.
Basic requirements:
- Git: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Installing-Git
- Python >= 2.6: http://www.python.org/download/releases/
- pip: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/
On debian based systems these can be installed with:
sudo apt-get install git-core python python-pip python-dev build-essential
The python dependencies required for running ooniprobe are:
- Tor (>2.2.x): https://torproject.org/
- Twisted (>12.1.0): https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/
- PyYAML: http://pyyaml.org/
- Scapy: http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/
- pypcap: https://code.google.com/p/pypcap/
- libdnet: https://code.google.com/p/libdnet/
- txtorcon: https://github.com/meejah/txtorcon
- txsocksx: https://github.com/hellais/txsocksx
To get the latest version of Tor you should do the following (from: https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian):
# put in here the value of lsb_release -c (ex. oneirc for ubuntu 11.10 or squeeze for debian 6.0)
export DISTRIBUTION="squeeze"
echo "deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org $DISTRIBUTION main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89
gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install tor
You are highly recommended to install python packages from inside of a virtual environment, since pip does not download the packages via SSL and you will need to install it system wide.
This will require you to have installed virtualenv.
sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
To create a new virtual environment do
mkdir $HOME/.virtualenvs
mkvirtualenv ooni-probe
You will automatically enter the environment. To re-enter this environment in the future, type:
workon ooni-probe
For convenience, you may want to add the following to your .bashrc:
if [ -e ~/ooni-probe/bin ]; then
export PATH=~/ooni-probe/bin:$PATH
fi
if [ -e ~/ooni-probe ]; then
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:~/ooni-probe
fi
Add the following to $HOME/.virtualenvs/ooni-probe/bin/postactivate to automatically cd into the working directory upon activation.
if [ -e ~/ooni-probe ] ; then
cd ~/ooni-probe
fi
Clone the ooniprobe repository:
git clone https://git.torproject.org/ooni-probe.git
cd ooni-probe
Then install OONI with:
pip install -r requirements.txt
If you are not in a virtualenv you will have to run the above command as root:
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
It's ideal to install these manually since the ones in debian or ubuntu are not up to date.
The version of pypcap and libdnet ooniprobe is current tested with are libdnet-1.12 and pypcap 1.1, any other version should be considered untested.
If you don't already have Subversion installed:
sudo apt-get install subversion
For libdnet:
wget https://libdnet.googlecode.com/files/libdnet-1.12.tgz
tar xzf libdnet-1.12.tgz
cd libdnet-1.12
./configure && make
cd python/
python setup.py install
cd ../../ && rm -rf libdnet-1.12*
For pypcap:
git clone https://github.com/hellais/pypcap
cd pypcap/
pip install pyrex
make && make install
cd ../ && rm -rf pypcap-read-only
Including geografical information on where your probe is located helps us better assess the value of the test. You can personalize these setting from inside of ooniprobe.conf
If you wish to include geografical data in the test report, you will have to go to the data/ directory and run:
make geoip
Then edit your ooniprobe.conf to point to the absolute path of where the data/ directory is located for example:
geoip_data_dir: /home/your_user/ooni-probe/data/
To see the possible command line options run:
./bin/ooniprobe --help
For interesting tests to run look in the nettests/core/ directory.
To run a test you can do so with:
./bin/ooniprobe -o report_file_name path/to/test.py
Normally tests take options, you can see them with:
./bin/ooniprobe -o report_file_name path/to/test.py --help
By default ooniprobe will not include personal identifying information in the test result, nor create a pcap file. This behavior can be personalized by editing your ooniprobe.conf configuration file.