When Internet traffic enters a country, it becomes subject to those
countries’ laws. As an increasing number of countries pass laws that
facilitate mass surveillance, Internet users have more need than ever to
determine---and control---which countries their traffic is traversing.
To this end, we first conduct a large-scale measurement study to
demonstrate that Internet paths often transit countries where laws may
make users more vulnerable to surveillance than they would be in their
home country.
We investigate different options that give users the power to avoid
certain countries, which could ultimately make them less vulnerable to
state-level surveillance. Our measurement-driven evaluation shows that
tunneling allows users in many countries to access many popular sites
without traversing certain other countries. Our study focuses on five
different countries: Brazil, Netherlands, India, Kenya, and the United
States. We find that these different options increase clients’
(end-users’) abilities to avoid other countries, but no country can
completely avoid all other countries. Our results also show how central
the United States is to inter-domain routing, as clients in Brazil,
Netherlands, India, and Kenya cannot avoid the United States when
accessing a significant portion of the top domains.
https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/Edmundson_Avoiding_Nation.pdf
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