I’m excited to present Satellite, a network measurement project I’ve been working on over the last couple years, at USENIX ATC next month.
Satellite takes a look at understanding shared CDN behaviors and automatically detecting censorship by regularly querying open DNS resolvers around the world.
For example, we can watch the trends in censorship in Iran using only a single, external machine.
The data for satellite is posted publicly each week, and will shortly be merged into the OONI data set to help provide better baselines for what behavior should be occurring.