Global Network Interference Detection over the RIPE Atlas Network
Collin Anderson, Philipp Winter, Roya · 2014
Existing censorship measurement platforms frequently suffer from poor adoption, insufficient geographic cov-erage, and scalability problems. In order to outline an analytical framework and data collection needs for future ubiquitous measurements initiatives, we build on top of the existent and widely-deployed RIPE Atlas platform. In particular, we propose methods for monitoring the reachability of vital services through an algorithm that balances timeliness, diversity, and cost. We then use At-las to investigate blocking events in Turkey and Russia. Our measurements identify under-examined forms of in-terference and provide evidence of cooperation between a well-known blogging platform and government author-ities for purposes of blocking hosted content. 1