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Technology, Thoughts & Trinkets
Personal blog · christopher-parsons.com/blogsecuritypolitics
Technology, Thoughts & Trinkets is a personal blog at christopher-parsons.com about security and politics. Since 2009, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite posts by Christopher Parsons on internet censorship and traffic shaping, such as Iran blocking Tor and HTTPS connections and deep packet inspection by Canadian ISPs like Rogers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I work at the intersection of privacy, technology, and public policy. I am the Director of Research and Technology Policy at Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, where I lead a multidisciplinary team focused on the governance of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, cy
What Hacker News says?
Only from the TOR guys: - https://blog.torproject.org/blog/iran-blocks-tor-tor-release... Iran detects ssl parameters and block suspicious connections (they based it on the expiry time of the session certificates) - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/83... - http://www.christopher-parsons.com/blog/technology/is-iran-n... Btw. it is not only Iran running country wide DPI - have a look at http:/…
Comment linking /blog/technology/is-iran-now-actually-using-deep-packet-inspection/
on “Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol”Submitted NSA Codenames/Covernames and Suggested Use/Implementation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt might be worth linking this document from the Snowden leaks: https://christopher-parsons.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/n... "NSA Network Shaping 101". Big descriptions of ASINs, and layer 3 shaping. Written in 2007.
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2023/01/nsa-network-shaping-101.pdf
on “A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela”Submitted The Politics of Deep Packet Inspection as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRogers is the top ISP in the set, but according to some official statements, their systems inadvertently began severe DPI shaping on encrypted and P2P traffic since September 2010 around when Netflix was rolled out to Canada. This issue still remains today. I have a 50 megabit plan with Rogers and all my SSL traffic throttles the entire line with an exponential dropoff to 25 Kilobytes a second. The packet loss is se…
Comment linking /blog/isps/rogers-network-failures-and-third-party-oversight/
on “Netflix Performance on Top ISP Networks”Submitted Iran, Traffic Analysis, and Deep Packet Inspection as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted NSA Network Shaping 101 [2007, Snowden leak] [pdf] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted (2023) GCHQ [Sigint] Summaries as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deep Packet Inspection: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted (Draft) Deep Packet Inspection and Its Predecessors as a story · 1 points
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