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 why certain things are bad, and should make a conscious choice not to aid and abet them.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.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.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.