For example there are discussion these days concerning this paper: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/pdf/papers/p653.pdf https://readings.owlfolio.org/2015/encore-lightweight-measurement-web-censorship/
I wonder if Atlas platform has similar concerns as well. Best regards, weqnin > On 22 Oct 2015, at 17:00, Wenqin SHAO <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dear list, > > Talking about how public and non-public probe participates in built-in and > user-defined measurement, a possible scenario has come to my mind (maybe it’s > not really relevant to what you are discussing right now). Here goes the case: > > I host a probe and it is required to participate in a UDM involving sensitive > destinations, say DNS measurement to ISIS’s site (could be interesting and > useful in certain senses), which however might violet my local security > policies. As a consequence, the big brother might knock at my door and > invite me for a coffee…or something more serious. > > My question is, if that happens, am I really responsible for that and whether > it is possible to avoid participating in certain risky measurements. > > Possibly I wrong too much. > > Best regards, > wenqin > >> On 22 Oct 2015, at 16:35, Daniel Quinn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi James, >> >> I just wanted to clarify a few points about how the probes work in response >> to your comment. >> >> All RIPE Atlas probes, even those not marked “public”, are available to be >> used in both built-in and user-defined measurements *as sources*. >> >> Many probes are not hosted on the open Internet, so they make for lousy >> targets. In most cases, they're hosted on internal networks, so they're >> often not “targetable” at all. More importantly, hosting a probe does not >> make your network (which already exists on the open Internet) any more or >> less likely to be the target of a measurement. >> >> And in terms of outgoing traffic, the probe generates next to nothing >> (typically a few Kb/s, even when it’s being used for user-defined >> measurements). >> >> You can learn more about this from the FAQs: >> https://atlas.ripe.net/about/faq/ >> >> Please let us know if you have any other questions. >> >> Regards, >> >> Daniel Quinn >> > >
