Jackson Sipp
PhD researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder focusing on national-scale censorship systems; led research that reverse-engineered a popcount-based Great Firewall detection technique and studied its 2021–2023 blocking event.
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Feb 19, 2026 • 58min
Inside China’s Great Firewall with Jackson Sippe
Jackson Sipp, a PhD researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder studying national-scale censorship systems. He explains how China’s Great Firewall worked during the 2021–2023 blocking window. Topics include the pop-count entropy detection technique, how padding and TLS-like headers were used to evade blocks, active probing and fingerprinting, and implications for circumvention tool design and future censorship trends.
