In previous posts, we’ve explored many of the pieces that make up China’s vast system of censorship, including the Great Firewall, a huge content-filtering machine, and the Great Cannon, a powerful new DDoS weapon. But that’s just one side of the story—just as Chinese censorship has evolved over time, so…
In this post from ThousandEyes Connect San Francisco, we’ll discuss the presentation by Steve Loyd, Vice President in Engineering Operations at Zendesk. Steve has worked in operations at a number of different companies, including Yahoo, Intraware and Sun Microsystems. He’s been at SaaS provider Zendesk since 2012, where the networking…
We last left off our exploration of China’s censorship system at an in-depth analysis of the content-filtering technical behemoth that is the Great Firewall. But the Great Firewall isn’t the only play in China’s book as the Chinese government has also begun to develop intimidatingly powerful Internet weapons that can…
In our last post on censorship, we surveyed a range of countries around the world that engaged in content filtering on the Internet. Among them was one system of censorship whose sophistication stood head and shoulders above the rest, and that was the Great Firewall of China.
As the Internet has evolved, so too has its censorship. In the beginning, many believed that censoring the Internet was impossible, since networks were to designed to adapt to major disruptions and simply route around any barriers—including intentional ones. However, countries like Singapore, China, Saudi Arabia and Iran found ways…
