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Middlebox signatures register at 1.37% in the current OONI window

The decomposition separates interference signatures from transport failure and tests that could not execute.

By Palimpsest ObservatoryAutomated evidence brief

1.37%middlebox index · across 9,283 completed middlebox tests

What the record says

Finding. The current measurement-weighted middlebox index is 1.37%.

This report is scoped to in-path-interference. It does not merge unlike instruments or infer a cause from co-movement.

How it was measured

rates are computed over COMPLETED tests only (measurement_count - failure_count). OONI's anomaly counter ranges only over completed runs, so a test that never completes has no anomaly rate — it has an execution-failure rate, reported separately

What this cannot establish

  • The index is a weighted aggregate over reporting tests; transport failure and execution blackout remain separate categories.

Palimpsest addition

Instrument brief

live-reading · Current evidence

Palimpsest's view: in-path-interference is live. The current number is 1.4% over 9,283 completed middlebox tests. This is the instrument reading, not a national censorship rate.

Key number

  • 1.4% middlebox index · 9,283 completed middlebox tests

Current number and denominator

  • The current middlebox index is 1.4% over 9,283 completed middlebox tests.
  • The current measurement-weighted middlebox index is 1.37%.

Same-edition board context

  • Same-edition elevated layers: none declared. Other live lead or high signal ids: event-flags, ddti, undertext, ooni-gfw, censored-planet, inside-view, ioda-outages, vantage-fusion, erasure-observatory, wayback, app-storefront, apple-censorship, cny-fix-gap, data-darkness, generative-firewall.
  • No editorial_priority or MAD score is treated as a finding on this reading.

What this reading does not show

  • The index is a weighted aggregate over reporting tests; transport failure and execution blackout remain separate categories.
  • The brief does not assign motive, identify a person, merge unlike denominators, or treat a missing reading as a zero.
  • rates are computed over COMPLETED tests only (measurement_count - failure_count). OONI's anomaly counter ranges only over completed runs, so a test that never completes has no anomaly rate - it has an execution-failure rate, reported separately

Elevated peers this edition

event-flags (command), ddti (attention), undertext (attention), ooni-gfw (network), censored-planet (network), inside-view (network), ioda-outages (network), vantage-fusion (network), erasure-observatory (erasure), wayback (erasure), app-storefront (erasure), apple-censorship (erasure), cny-fix-gap (economy), data-darkness (economy), generative-firewall (models)

Counterreadings

  • A current or withheld instrument value is not independent corroboration of any publisher article, and it is not a cause.
  • Co-movement with another live signal on this edition is layer context, not a shared rate or a coordinated action.

Limitations

  • The index is a weighted aggregate over reporting tests; transport failure and execution blackout remain separate categories.
  • The companion copies newsroom templates only; it adds no interview, article body, or generative prose.

Analysis instrumentv-f44c32c0bd2d5c3b39d88efb · structured assessment · reading companion

Read the evidence

The exact source reading is in-path-interference-latest.json. The structured version of this dispatch is published beside the article.