Identifying Airtel middleboxes that censor HTTPS traffic
On a meta level, this is one of the reasons why I tell every junior/entry level person I encounter in the ISP business the following: Ethics is important in network engineering. You can and should refuse to do things that cause measurable harm to the Internet. You should understand <i>why</i> certain things are bad, and should make a conscious choice not to aid and abet them.<p>It is regretful that organizations like NANOG, RIPE, ARIN, APNIC and others do not take a stronger stance (on a global geopolitical level) against censorship of the Internet, and attempts to create walled gardens and national firewalls.<p>The people who possess the equivalent of 'enable'/'configure' on the core routers of gigantic ASNs have real power to refuse to further harm the Internet.<p>We have seen a number of discussions on HN about ethics in software engineering. A quick search for posts with 'ethics' in the subject line turns up a number of things. In my opinion, ethics in the ISP, telecom and network engineering industry is equally important.