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by cradle 4577 days ago
| Or just encrypt everything and bounce it through proxies or route anonymizers

Yep, that'll speed things up

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Its not about speeding it up, its about finding a fair test, this would create a worst case delivery scenario which you know someone hasn't messed with.

If you can optimise your applications under those conditions you know its going to be gravy for those without lots of hops. The problem is that developers have very fast computers AND are usually a very short hop count from their deployment servers. They make really bad testers.