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by 052c7028e 2y ago
1. At the time it was the only nation state that had specialty infrastructure except for maybe the US. 2. There were specific infrastructure changes made for blocking and sending logs inside mainland china. 3. The CDN node would deny access
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by 052c7028e 2y ago
I worked on the censorship and government reporting (sending all logs) infrastructure for Akamai China CDN. I'm glad to see it get shut down. Happy to answer questions. Previous discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.
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by 052c7028e 4y ago
Thank you.
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by 052c7028e 4y ago
I was powerless to stop it. I was just a junior engineer, and it was decided by the CEO to do the project. So, actually, I feel I made the right choice -- I participated in the project but worked hard on making sure it was as limited as pos
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by 052c7028e 4y ago
All of the sites served had an ICP license. This is separate, and the CDNs in China have regulations specific to CDNs they need to comply with. At the time, Akamai also had the capability to stream logs, but the ministry of technology requi
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by 052c7028e 4y ago
When I was at Akamai about 5 years ago, I was involved in building the system for making their CDN compliant in China. There were two main features, and they were activated on all servers running inside mainland china (not HK, macau or Taiw
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by 052c7028e 6y ago
Akamai uses something similar to perform trace routes in-band of HTTP TCP sessions to clients: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/94/materials/slides-94-...