>>54211645
>akamaitechnologies.com
It doesn't even resolve to an IP address. It looks like that domain is exclusively for reverse lookup, so everything that says it's a CDN is blatantly lies.

This is surreal. https://developer.akamai.com/api It lists off a bunch of services but nowhere does it actually say what any of them do or how to operate them. Looking at the code it's just a config system that explains literally nothing about what any of the config data would actually mean. I can't see how this would come into existence at all. It's clear they don't actually have any servers for any of this.

This is a hell of a lot of content for something that ostensibly doesn't exist. What's going on /g/?

>>54211645
Akamai is in fact a CDN. Go on Steam and check any of your screenshots. Its URL will start with

>http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com
>akamai

>>54214693

This. Have a look at your traffic when a user downloads a Windows update, or an iOS update or something. It all goes through CDNs like Akamai.

Try blocking all connections to any website with akamai in the URL, that should work.. But know that if you do, good luck with using the web normally. Akamai is actually legit and they host a ton of shit (including Steam's webservers)

>>54214693
https://www.highwinds.com/blog/valve-leverages-highwinds-cdn-for-steam-platform/

"akamai" in the domain name isn't the same thing being "Akamai Technologies." The company as the site talks about it doesn't exist at all. It's easily a ripoff of Steam's use of the name, if anything.
>>54214743
Akamai isn't a CDN. I literally has no functionality. The entire site is there to advertise something that literally doesn't exist. Browse around the site for a second and take an actual look at it. It talks about what it provides and doesn't actually have any way to interface with the things it says it provides. The GitHub account has code that does nothing but read a config file. It literally doesn't do anything else.
>>54214771
Bullshit. Steam uses Highwinds, which actually exists. Look past the domain name.

Schizo threads are my favorite

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>>54214913
Do you think Level 3 is a conspiracy too?

>>54214913.

if you dont believe me then get on your hosts file or router and block all connections to domains with "akamai" in the name. Then try using the internet and see how many pages are fucked up.

I know because I thought the same thing as you last year, while I was still paranoid after getting this brutal virus from a GTA5 mod.

>>54215083
Look, you can tell at a glance that Highwinds is a CDN. You can immediately see their services and it's apparent how to sign up. NO SUCH THING EXISTS FOR AKAMAI.COM. It's a front for literally nothing. Actually look at the site—it doesn't actually do anything but TALK about this stuff and it has zero anything to back it up. It's fronting for literally nothing. If you can't tell an actual CDN and a complete farce apart, then you haven't actually looked at their site.

>>54215136
Steam having 'akamai' in their CDN domain names has nothing to with this so-called Akamai Technologies. Steam's CDN servers actually exist, but there's no documentation that Akamai Technologies does anything that its site says it does. Trying to block all domains with "akamai" in the name would be pointless because Akamai Technologies itself doesn't actually run a CDN to block.

>>54215193
What makes you think it's a front? No "sign up" button? It is likely professional such that "contact us" is the only way to do business with them. Have only glanced at their page but it seems like you are misinterpreting wireshark results.

>>54215284
>wireshark results
I haven't even been analyzing my internet, I've just been researching Akamai. Even IF they only did business through a "contact us" interface, they'd still need to have something to sell, and that thing they sell needs to be explained on their site. This doesn't happen. They don't explain any actual features. The code examples they link to on GitHub contain *EMPTY CODE*. It does nothing but read config files. I literally doesn't do anything.

Have you actually looked at the site? Can you find the magic piece that says what it actually does? Can you link the page that convinces you it's a real business that provides an actual service? Do you actually have a reason to believe this isn't a complete hoax? If you haven't looked at the site I can see how you'd have a hard time understanding why I think it's a fake front for an invisible service that never is provided. Go look at the site and tell me where it actually advertises any *actual CDN features.*

>>54215431
>have you actually looked
No, and honestly I can't even tell you what what a CDN usually does. I will take a look at the site when I have time to go through it. I did something similar for a job I used to have. I will of course need to research CDNs as well

>>54215523
>I will of course need to research CDNs as well
Don't bother trying to give an opinion if you don't know the first thing about CDNs. At first I thought it was using market SEO terms that I just wasn't familiar with, but this is clearly not that. They're in the business of manipulating analytics to scam technologically illiterate business goons into investing in something that they don't understand. I tried and there's literally no way to buy anything from them at all. They're not the usual scam that steals your credit card info or anything like that so nobody ever reports any the site for any criminal activity. It's literally a case of not having a product to sell and never getting a negative customer review because they don't actually have any customers. They posture as having customers and providing services but literally none of it is true.

It is literally an investment scam the feeds on the ignorance of tech investors. Or else the stuff I've read about their stocks weren't even real and it's not even that, not sure yet. I'll have to look into the investment angle tomorrow.

>>54215646
Aight have fun being a delusional psychopath. Only people without jobs care about this fake shit

>>54215674
Honestly not sure why you're being hostile here. Are you actually the person behind the scam and you're only here to try to discredit people that can actually tell it's a scam? Literally have no idea how you got "delusional" or "psychopath" out of this thread.

>>54215721
That wasn't me.

>>54215646
The real akamai site is https://www.akamai.com/

>>54215863
If you're not the anon that just said "delusional psychopath" in my direction then why did you respond to that post at all? Reply to the topic.

>>54215881
That's the one I've been browsing around on. It's a complete farce no matter how I look at it. The other domains don't even resolve to IP addresses.

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>>54215898
...you understand that akamai is a massive company and fairly important in the tech sector, right? Do you even know what a cdn is?

>>54215965
>a massive company
I see literally nothing but evidence to the contrary of that. Show me something that doesn't amount to tech blogger gossip or else show me that they actually do anything they market themselves as doing. "Oh well everyone else thinks it's true" isn't worth shit to me. They either provide CDN services or they literally just don't and it's a complete hoax.

This wouldn't be the first time people fell for mass scams, con artists or shell corporations. I get the hype, I can see how a complete retard would look at this and think it's a legit CDN service, but it just isn't. Show me exactly why you think that or don't even bother telling me what you think it is. If you can't tell a fake CDN from a real CDN, don't even post here.

>>54215025
this desu fampai

>>54216052
There's nothing Schizo about this. It's a front plain and simple. What aren't you getting? Did you even look at the site?

>>54216026
call them
make up some business bullshit and give them a situation and ask what they can do

>>54216059
I'll try that tomorrow. I'm having a hard time understanding who actually puts effort into keeping this site up.

>inb4answering machine
>inb4can't reach an actual agent

>>54216085
can you play any of the videos?

>ITT someone got high and thinks one of the oldest and largest CDNs on the internet is a front for the illuminati

Wtf is this thread

>>54216026
Here's a list of companies that use akamai: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/our-customers.jsp

>Adobe
>airbnb
>best buy
>CBC
>ibm
>redhat
>siemens

Literally call any of them and ask. Say you're a journalist doing a story about akamai or something.

>>54216118
Some kid finally noticed that akamai exists and thinks it's a conspiracy

>>54216026
They are literally the biggest cdn provider ever afaik. Turn on wireshark for a day, do normal internet shit, then filter your requests by "akamai" and see what happens.

>>54216146
It's a pretty big botnet

>>54216108
Some of them played but I had it muted so I don't really know what they said. Probably just filled with the same pseudogook as the rest of the site.
>>54216114
>one of the oldest and largest
[citation needed]

This is a terrible meme and you should feel bad for perpetuating it. Literally it isn't old, isn't large, and probably doesn't even have the employees it reports itself as having. Seriously [citation needed] and don't link me some bullshit tech blog that can't tell a fork from a spoon.

>>54216118
Weird site posing as a multinational conglomerate with tons of businessspeak and fake buzzwords that aren't actually relevant to CDNs.

>>54216139
>https://www.akamai.com
Discarded. Literally complete bullshit. There is zero reason for you to believe their client list isn't completely made up bullshit. Give a source that Akamai Technologies doesn't literally have a motive to manipulate. [citation needed] again.

>call any of them and ask
I've been thinking about doing that. Might be prove more productive than calling the numbers they list on their site.

>>54216146
>conspiracy
No, it's a hoax. I can't find any evidence that they actually do anything. I literally only see articles about investment and tech news gossip. It's just a common case of analytics manipulation. Hackers do this type of thing all the time. That's all it is.

>>54216152
>afaik
You know shit all but what you read on their website. Find a credible source that doesn't trace back to the hoax. Pro tip: You can't.

>>54216168
>botnet
I don't know if it's even a botnet. It almost looks like a proof-of-concept of social engineering and mass market ignorance. It could literally have ten nodes and illiterate idiots think it has thousands.

This thread has a confusing, worrying amount of denial but I'll give you benefit of the doubt.

>https://developer.akamai.com/api It lists off a bunch of services but nowhere does it actually say what any of them do or how to operate them
I went here, scrolled down, and found this:
https://developer.akamai.com/api/luna/config-media-live/overview.html
>Example 1: Creating a Domain Workflow
>1. Call the /config-media-live/v1/live/utils/cpcode API to get a list of available CP codes. Identify the reporting and storage CP codes.
It goes on with three more steps and an example XML file.
>Looking at the code it's just a config system that explains literally nothing about what any of the config data would actually mean.
That would probably be because the majority of the work is done on Akamai's side.
>It's clear they don't actually have any servers for any of this.
What leads you to this?

Additionally:
http://www.whoishostingthis.com/?q=akamai.com
https://twitter.com/search?q=akamai&src=typd
Just a couple links off the top of my head.

>>54216241
Some more links.

http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/company/akamai-technologies-inc-5134-2853
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-04-25/akamai-says-ceo-departing-by-end-2013-sales-top-estimates-1-
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1086222/000154256714000015/0001542567-14-000015-index.htm
http://in.reuters.com/finance/stocks/companyProfile?symbol=AKAM.O

>>54216287
You're wasting your time, this guy is stoned out of his mind

>>54216320
I suspect he's either a very passionate troll or very mentally ill, and I'm not sure which is sadder.

>>54216241
>probably be because the majority of the work
Doesn't actually exist. If you don't actually know what services a CDN needs to provide don't tell me that it provides them 'secretly.' I actually looked at the code and there's literally nothing to document. It's not talking about content being uploaded and downloaded, managed or configured, it's talking about running scripts that fuck around with config files that do *absolutely nothing*. I'd be able to tell if it was just a matter of their services being server side or not. This isn't that. There is no server side. They literally have a repository full of meaningless code.

>What leads you to this?
No, burden of proof is on you. If they have servers, show me the servers. I looked everywhere and saw nothing but marketing gobbledygook. The fact that they don't have servers is only apparent if you actually know what you're looking for. Other CDNs have servers, they have URLs, they have shit you can point to on the actual internet that is run by the CDN company. Akamai doesn't have that. All there is is a massive void where you'd expect an actual CDN to be.

>>54216287
>sec.gov
What am I looking at here? Tax returns? Because it sure isn't a list of actual servers.

I haven't looked into their stocks yet, but being able to buy stocks from a company doesn't actually guarantee that that company has a CDN. Shares correlate to market value, not server racks.

>>54216320
I don't smoke at all. If you can show me where their servers are, do it. Until then I have to assume you're either part of the Amakai Technologies hoax and you have a business interest in trying to get people to ignore me or you're memeposting. Either way, eat shit. I'm not high, I have a strong nose for bullshit. If you can tell a fake CDN from a real CDN then show me their servers.

>>54216361
Fuck off. "hurr durr it's a big company" doesn't mean it's not a bold faced scam. Show me the servers if you actually have a reason to believe they have any.

>>54216390
$ host gdl.square-enix.com
gdl.square-enix.com is an alias for gdl.square-enix.com.edgesuite.net.
gdl.square-enix.com.edgesuite.net is an alias for a1023.g.akamai.net.
a1023.g.akamai.net has address 23.217.129.43
a1023.g.akamai.net has address 23.217.129.51
$ host 23.217.129.43
43.129.217.23.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer a23-217-129-43.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com.

>>54216428
https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/AKAMAI
https://web.archive.org/web/20000301231008/http://www.akamai.com/

>>54216428
>>54216450
B T F O
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SCHIZO GO TAKE YOUR MEDS

>>54216428
>is an alias for a1023.g.akamai.net.
That checks out. Hmm.
>>54216450
Completely unhelpful.
>>54216489
Still not sure how this is Schizo. If anything it just demonstrates the size of the gap between business language and actually saying anything meaningful. Also maybe the quality with which CDNs are able to deliver service without anyone noticing.

>>54216565
Wait, shit. I lost track completely. The point of the thread was the SpyHunter sites, not Akamai CDN.

WELP. There goes my day.

>>54216711
Things I learned today:
1. Schizophrenia is not knowing the extent of CDN.
2. Nobody reads the OP. Not even OP, apparently.
3. If SpyHunter is analytics engineering, it sure knows how to hide behind people's tech ignorance.

>>54216231
>Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Akamai's content delivery network is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms, responsible for serving between 15 and 30 percent of all web traffic.[6] The company operates a network of servers around the world and rents capacity on these servers to customers who want their websites to work faster by distributing content from locations close to the user. Over the years their customers have included Apple, Facebook, Bing, Twitter, eBay and healthcare.gov. When a user navigates to the URL of an Akamai customer, their browser is redirected to one of Akamai’s copies of this website, almost entirely invisible to the vast majority of its users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies

>>54216881
Yeah I get how CDNs work, I just thought that Amakai Technologies was posing as one without actually being one. I've known to tech illiterate business types in my days so it seemed possible that such a hoax could exist. This thread wasn't supposed to be about my ignorance of Amakai. It was MEANT to be about SpyHunter and the sites that show up on a Google search for the rDNS of a certain amakaitechnologies.com IP address. The analytics fuckery is on the part of SpyHunter, not Amakai Tech.

Just. Yes, Amakai is a legit CDN. That wasn't the point of the thread. I was wrong/confused/Schizo whatever about that. But seriously what is the deal with SpyHunter and those Google results? I want my goddamn day back.

>>54216231
>>https://www.akamai.com
>Discarded. Literally complete bullshit. There is zero reason for you to believe their client list isn't completely made up bullshit.
That's why you call the clinet, dumbass.

>>54216390
>No, burden of proof is on you.
You're the one making accusations.

>>54217063
That's really not necessary anymore: >>54216428

>>54217119
>accusations
See: >>54216565
>Completely unhelpful.

Amakai industries is irrelevant. Ignore amakai.com and all related CDN bullshit. I meant to ask about the analytics manipulation in the Google search. There are a ton of results that link to sites that seem to exist solely for the sake of advertising SpyHunter.