lib•erate, (n)
Fangfan Li, Abbas Razaghpanah, Arash Molavi Kakhki, Arian Akhavan Niaki, David Choffnes, Phillipa Gill, Alan Mislove · 2017
Middleboxes implement a variety of network management policies (e.g., prioritizing or blocking traffic) in their networks. While such policies can be beneficial (e.g., blocking malware) they also raise issues of network neutrality and freedom of speech when used for application-specific differentiation and censorship. There is a poor understanding of how such policies are implemented in practice, and how they can be evaded efficiently. As a result, most circumvention solutions are brittle, point solutions based on manual analysis.