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I happened to do a tcpdump while leaving my Mac idle, and when I came back after a mere half-hour there were something like 5000 packets involving deploy.akamaitechnologies.com, in which my computer was asking it on port TCP 443 for something, and getting back 1448 payload bytes of something. The actual bytes look garbled, so I have no idea what is being delivered.
I'm inclined to add akamaitechnologies to my Wifi router's list of domains to block.
Anybody know what this data is?
Thanks.
Yes traffic is incredible, and it also exists in GNU/linux. Also check http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2011/11/29/how-content-delivery-networks-cdns-work/
– Konstantinos – 2014-10-11T01:21:16.6571"in which my computer was asking it on port TCP 443 for something, and getting back 1448 payload bytes of something. The actual bytes look garbled" As RedGrittyBrick noted, that's HTTPS traffic, meaning it's encrypted, so it'll look random unless it's decrypted. – None – 2014-03-12T19:25:24.627