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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 112 posts.
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Bye-Bye Mastodon, our account on Fosstodon.org was deleted yesterday
We discovered the Mastodon peer to peer social network in February 2019 from a customer suggestion and we loved it. The idea of having a decentralized social network, not dependent on one source is…
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Telegram Voice Chats
Today, Telegram groups get an entire new dimension with Voice Chats – persistent conference calls that members can join and leave as they please. Our 12th update in 2020 brings them to you just in time for remote Christmas carols.
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IPv6 WireGuard Peering
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Facebook reveals 'SuperCell' tower to increase connectivity in rural areas
As part of our efforts to help expand connectivity around the world, Facebook Connectivity has been prototyping SuperCell, a wide-area coverage solution for increasing mobile connectivity in rural …
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No, SAR Can't See Through Buildings
Explore Capella blogs, case studies, and insights on SAR, space systems, and Earth intelligence.
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Cerulean: Experimental micro-blogging app for Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Adding Encrypted Group Calls to Signal
2020 has seen its fair number of challenges and changes. We’ve all adapted to new ways of staying in touch, getting work done, celebrating birthdays and weddings, and even exercising. As more and more of our critical and personal moments move online, we want to continue to provide you with new wa...
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Good-bye ESNI, hello ECH!
A deep dive into the Encrypted Client Hello, a standard that encrypts privacy-sensitive parameters sent by the client, as part of the TLS handshake.
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Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH
Oblivious DoH (ODoH) makes secure DNS over HTTPS (DoH) queries into private queries which prevent the leakage of client IP addresses to resolvers. The new proposed ODoH standard addresses this problem and today we are enabling users to use this protocol with 1.1.1.1
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Gitter now speaks Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Cyberespionage Using SS7 via Circles
Circles is a surveillance firm that reportedly exploits weaknesses in the global mobile phone system to snoop on calls, texts, and the location of phones around the globe, and is affiliated with NSO Group, which develops the oft-abused Pegasus spyware. Using Internet scanning, we found a unique signature associated…
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Goodbye PowerDNS
After over 20 years of DNS and PowerDNS, I am moving on. Separate from this page, I am releasing a series of three huge posts on the history of PowerDNS.
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US internet speeds 91% faster in 2020 according to user speed tests
Internet speeds in the US were more than twice as fast as Europe's in 2021.
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Mozilla DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) Comment Period
We're crowdsourcing ideas and recommendations to help us enhance the privacy and security benefits of DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) for users around the world
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Big no on Big Sur: Mullvad disallows Apple apps to bypass firewall
Despite Apple’s changes to macOS with the release of Big Sur, we can confirm that the Mullvad app still performs as intended by not allowing Apple’s own apps to bypass our VPN firewall.
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GNUnet 0.14.0
GNU's framework for secure p2p networking
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eBPF – The Future of Networking and Security
Isovalent, the company behind Cilium, is announcing its $29M Series A financing round. Lets take a deeper look into where eBPF-based ...
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Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support
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eBPF Summit Day 1 Recap
Day 1 of the eBPF Summit delivered insightful talks on how eBPF is reshaping Linux networking, observability, and security — with ove...
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Mailing lists are resistant to censorship
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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Egypt Blocks Access to Telegram
Technology and Law Community "Masaar” documented the blocking of the Telegram website and application by the Egyptian authorities on 22 October 2020. The authorities blocked Telegram on three of the Internet service networks operating in Egypt. These networks included “We”, “Vodafone” and “Orange”. Masaar learned…
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Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland
Uninterrupted, good quality mobile phone reception is extremely important to rail passengers.
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The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3
We are replacing the de facto protocol the internet has used for decades with QUIC, the latest and most radical step we’ve taken to optimize our network protocols to create a better experience for …
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BPF, XDP, Packet Filters and UDP
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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A legislative path to an interoperable internet
It’s not enough to say that the Internet is built on interoperability. The Internet is interoperability. Billions of machines around the world use the same set of open protocols—like TCP/IP, HTTP, and TLS—to talk to one another. The first Internet-connected devices were only possible because phone...
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Together: New version of Jami (alternative to Zoom and Jitsi)
Jami facilitates share, freely and privately.
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Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes
How Google prepares for and protects against the largest volumetric DDoS attacks.
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Zoom Rolling Out End-to-End Encryption Offering
We’re excited to announce that starting next week Zoom’s E2EE offering will be available as a technical preview! Learn more