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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,406 posts.
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Riot is now Element
Hi everyone, We are incredibly excited to announce that Riot is now Element! In fact we have simplified all our naming: Element is also the name for New Vector (the company behind Riot) while Modular, our flagship Matrix hosting service, has become Element Matrix Services. For those discovering us for
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Making aerial fiber deployment faster and more efficient
Globally, more than 3.5 billion people are still not connected to the internet. With average data usage per person growing 20 to 30 percent annually, legacy bandwidth-limited technologies have been…
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Estonian Electronic Identity Card: Security Flaws in Key Management
Arnis Parsovs, Software Technology and Applications Competence Center and University of Tartu
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RCE on Telia Routers
Multiple vulnerabilities could allow running arbitrary code on an intranet server and gain root access on all the customers' routers
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The value of Tor and anonymous contributions to Wikipedia
According to a recently published research paper co-authored by researchers from Drexel, NYU, and the University of Washington, Tor users make high-quality contributions to Wikipedia. And, when they are blocked, as doctoral candidate Chau Tran, the lead author describes, "the collateral damage in the form of…
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How CDNs Generate Certificates
Say Hi to Thomas. Thomas's first weeks at Fly have been hectic, but he's been taking notes, copious notes that can teach you all about the wild world of certificate infrastructure. Read on to discover more...
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United States wants HTTPS for all government sites, all the time
The Sophos Blog
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A Technology Preview of Nginx Support for QUIC and HTTP/3
We announce the technology preview of NGINX support for QUIC+HTTP/3 as pre-release software, available for interoperability testing, feedback, and code contributions. HTTP/3 replaces TCP with QUIC, which is designed to support multiplexed connections more reliably.
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Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying
Learn more about how to use each Zoom product to connect with coworkers, customers, businesses, and more with insights and best practices.
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5G and Shannon’s Law
Why 5G's faster data rates are possible: Shannon's Law explained in plain language.
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Looking back at how Signal works
In the midst of world-wide protests against racism and police brutality, a lot of people are becoming more immediately aware and concerned about the security of their data and online communication. We’ve gotten a lot of questions at Signal over the past week, so we wanted to briefly recap how it ...
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Huawei proposes to replace TCP/IP at ITU
The Internet continues to evolve at a rapid pace. New services, applications, and protocols are being developed and deployed in many areas.
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SSH Agent Explained
The SSH agent acts behind the scenes to keep you safe. Here's how it works.
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A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case
How a Google Cloud support engineer found one customer’s missing DNS packets
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The CPU Cost of Networking on a Linux Host
When evaluating networking for a host the focus is typically on latency, throughput or packets per second (pps) to see the maximum load a...
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Building a subsea cable to better connect Africa
Connectivity is at the heart of our mission to give people the power to build community. We are committed to bringing more people online to a faster internet — and with 3.5 billion people globally …
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Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone
To help businesses, schools, and others navigate remote work and life, we're making our premium video conferencing solution free for all.
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DigitalOcean VPC
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
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An Android 8.0-9.0 Bluetooth Zero-Click RCE
Nowadays, Bluetooth is an integral part of mobile devices. Smartphones interconnect with smartwatches and wireless headphones. By default, most devices are configured to accept Bluetooth connections from any nearby unauthenticated device. Bluetooth packets are processed by the Bluetooth chip (also called a…
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What end-to-end encryption should look like
Check out our progress in end-to-end encryption calls in Jitsi. Give us your crypto knowledge feedback with the code and learn how to demo it here.
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You’ve Got 0-Click Mail: Unassisted iOS Attacks RCE via Mobilemail/Maild
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! How is your cybersecurity practice going?
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Netflix now supports TLS 1.3
By Sekwon Choi
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BGP and RPKI
We have been receiving occasional notifications, primarily via twitter from concerned customers who have visited 'isbgpsafeyet.com' and been told by the site's operator, Cloudflare, that their ISP is, apparently unsafe.
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What happens when a ccTLD is retired? Exploring the potential risks of .io
Could the complex political history of Diego Garcia put the .io domain at risk? Tech firms should be aware of potential risk to their websites.
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Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance
We announced support for HTTP/3, the successor to HTTP/2, during Cloudflare’s birthday week last year. Our goal is and has always been to help build a better Internet. Even though HTTP/3 is still in draft status, we've seen a lot of interest from our users.