Understanding Routing-Induced Censorship Changes Globally

arXiv:2406.19304v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Internet censorship is pervasive, with significant effort dedicated to understanding what is censored, and where. Prior censorship work however have identified significant inconsistencies in their results; experiments show unexplained non-determinism thought to be caused by censor load, end-host geographic diversity, or incomplete censorship -- inconsistencies which impede reliable, repeatable and correct understanding of global censorship. In this work we investigate the extent to which Equal-cost Multi-path (ECMP) routing is the cause for these inconsistencies, developing …

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