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Mastodon 3.5
A brand new explore page, post editing, and new moderation features are just some of the additions in this new release of Mastodon!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,406 posts.
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Interoperability without sacrificing privacy: Matrix and the DMA
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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LTrack: Stealthy Tracking of Mobile Phones in LTE
Martin Kotuliak, Simon Erni, Patrick Leu, Marc Röschlin, and Srdjan Čapkun, ETH Zurich
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Mitmproxy 8
We’re delighted to announce the release of mitmproxy 8, a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy. This release brings major improvements to mitmweb, our web interface, and new functionality for addon developers.
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A Primer on Proxies
A technical dive into traditional TCP proxying over HTTP
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Bunny DNS – A scriptable DNS platform
bunny.net introduces Bunny DNS, a scriptable DNS platform designed to simplify complex routing challenges and enhance internet performance. Offering powerful features like real-time scripting, integrated CDN, and privacy-first design, Bunny DNS is now available for early preview.
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iCloud Private Relay: What Cloudflare Customers Need to Know
iCloud Private Relay is an Apple service for browsing more privately and securely. Learn how to ensure the best user experience using iCloud Private Relay.
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A lock with many keys: Spoofing DNSSEC-signed domains in 8.8.8.8
We discovered that, until recently, Google Public DNS was theoretically vulnerable to a DNS cache poisoning attack on DNSSEC-signed domain names. Google fixed the vulnerability as a result of our report
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Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8
On March 8, we experienced a global outage triggered by issues in a cloud-hosted service discovery system used at Spotify. We were made aware of issues with login at 18:12 UTC / 13:12 ET and started implementing fixes to critical systems at 18:39 UTC / 13:39 ET. This outage affected our users and we apologize for the…
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TP240PhoneHome Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Vector
A new reflection/amplification distributed denial of service (DDoS) vector with a record-breaking potential amplification ratio of 4,294,967,296:1 has been abused by attackers in the wild to launch multiple high-impact DDoS attacks.
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A Request to Terminate ENOG
This archive is retained to ensure existing URLs remain functional. It will not contain any emails sent to this mailing list after July 1, 2024. For all messages, including those sent before and after this date, please visit the new location of the archive at…
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Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call
Hopefully in-person meet-ups will prove much easier in 2022 - but, there’s still a need for video calls, so let’s face it, they’re here to stay. This makes it really exciting to present Element Call: the world’s first decentralised voice and video conferencing app powered entirely
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Help Censored Users – Run a Tor Bridge
Today the Tor Project is launching the Run a Tor Bridge campaign. Participants are invited to contribute and help censored users by running a Tor bridge. You can find more details below, including our special reward kits for participants. The campaign will run from November 17 to January 7, 2022. Join us and help…
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Wartime Is a Bad Time to Mess with the Internet
Like most people, we at EFF are horrified by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Also like most people, we are not experts on military strategy or international diplomacy. But we do have some expertise with the internet and civil liberties, which is why we are deeply concerned that governments around the...
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Brave Talk: Unlimited, private video calls, in browser
Brave Talk brings unlimited, private video calls, right to your browser. No extra apps. No tracking. Just free connections, powered by Brave.
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When volcanoes go bang, submarine cables do what?
Guest Post: Insights and lessons from Tonga in the last five weeks.
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Twitter restricted in Russia amid conflict with Ukraine
NetBlocks metrics confirm the restriction of Twitter in Russia from the morning of Saturday 26 February 2022. Facebook servers have subsequently been restricted as of Sunday. The restrictions are in ...
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Decentralizing Distribution
Guardian Project has been awarded a grant from the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) to work on decentralizing veracity and distribution (...
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A guide to IPFS connectivity in web browsers
A minimal chat example using js-ipfs in the browser.
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The harmful consequences of the robustness principle
The robustness principle, often phrased as "be conservative in what you send, and liberal in what you accept", has long guided the design and implementation of Internet protocols. The posture this statement advocates promotes interoperability in the short term, but can negatively affect the protocol ecosystem over…
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HTTP/3: Everything you need to know about the next-generation web protocol
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
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Dino 0.3: Video calls and conferences – encrypted and peer-to-peer
A privacy-friendly messaging app for the desktop. It uses the XMPP protocol and provides a clean UI with modern features.
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Why federated protocols don't work (2016)
At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software developer, I envy writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Unlike software, when they create something, it is...
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Lasershark: Fast, bidirectional communication into air-gapped systems
We present a novel approach to infiltrate data to air-gapped systems without any additional hardware on-site.
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Our User-Mode WireGuard Year
For better or worse, flyctl isn't boring. Here's why.
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Starlink adds another 100Gbps connection to the SeattleIX
Netskope (AS55256) has added 1x100G, bringing their capacity to a total of 2x100G and 1x100G. They are connected to the route servers.
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How to stop running out of ephemeral ports and love long-lived connections
Often programmers have assumptions that turn out, to their surprise, to be invalid. From my experience this happens a lot. Every API, technology or system can be abused beyond its limits and break in a miserable way
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Origin of the Bluetooth Name
About Us We all recognize the “Bluetooth” brand, but we take for granted its significance and how much it impacts our lives. From smartphones to headphones and beyond, we rely on Bluetooth technology…