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Load balancers are the point of entrance to the datacenter. They are on the critical path to access anything and everything. That give them some interesting characteristics. First, they are the mos…
In my article detailing the command line utilities available for configuring and troubleshooting network properties on Windows and Linux, I mentioned some Linux tools that, while still included and…
Later this year, on November 21, 2017, D-Bus will see its 15th birthday. An impressive age, only shy of the KDE and GNOME projects, whose collaboration inspired the creation of this independent IPC system. While still relied upon by the most recent KDE and GNOME releases, D-Bus is not free of criticism. Despite its…
PS4 downloads have a reputation of being very slow. I did some digging to find out the root cause, and was surprised.
Mastodon is big in Japan. The reason why is… uncomfortable Remember Mastodon? In April 2017, there was a wave of excitement about Mastodon, a federated social network begun in October 2016 by Eugen …
. It took a look longer to read the book than to play this little web game, but you get pretty much the same thing out of the game, so I hig...
One of life's minor annoyances is having to wait on my devices to connect to the network after I wake them from sleep. All too often, I'll open the lid on my …
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It's bullshit, no question, let's get past that part. How did Nest screw up this finished product?
Hello everyone! After many years of using a massively hacked-up version of dcoombs's NITLog page generator to host these pages, I've become,...
A Hacker's Blog of Unintended Use and Insomnia.
At this point we have a TCP/IP stack that is able to communicate to other hosts in the Internet. The implementation so far has been fairly straight-forward, but missing a major feature: Reliability. Namely, our TCP does not guarantee the integrity of the data stream it presents to applications. Even establishing the…
The internet is getting noisy. Too noisy. Having grown up in the nineties, with 56k dial-up, I sometimes struggle to understand how little I'm accomplishing today with all the bandwidth I can leverage. There were some key factors that made the old internet so productive, by the way,
The top level domain of Slovakia is operated by a private company which abuses its monopoly. In the Central Europe it is something unusual.
When I first arrived at MIT in 2010, I was awed by how much computing infrastructure was readily available. Dorm rooms had 100 megabit inter...
Explain like I’m 5 years old: Kerberos – what is Kerberos, and why should I care?
Linux uses an LPC-trie for looking up routes. It provides good performance with low memory use even with millions of routes.
UPDATE: OpenVPN fuzzers now released. Summary I’ve discovered 4 important security vulnerabilities in OpenVPN. Interestingly, these were not found by the two recently completed audits of Open…
A quick overview of the various types of signal intelligence targets, with an emphasis on the Soviet Cold War systems
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There are lots of edge cases I hadn't considered, and it's very inconsistent between browsers. Here's what I found…
Most users who use the internet today, are mostly focused on three protocols, HTTP, TLS, and DNS.
