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HTTP/2 Is Done
The IESG has formally approved the HTTP/2 and HPACK specifications, and they’re on their way to the RFC Editor, where they’ll soon be assigned RFC numbers, go through some editorial processes, and be published.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,615 posts.
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What happens when DNS in China is poisoned and pointed at your server
I’ve been using the Internet in one form or another since the mid-80’s. In that time, I’ve seen a lot of strange stuff happening on our global network. On Tuesday, I experienced something extraordinary. It all started with a text message from my partner Ged at 8:30 AM: Mail server down. Please take a look […]
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Against DNSSEC
10 years later and still unrebutted: DNSSEC is pageantry, it's not security, which is why so few security teams deploy it.
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HFT in my backyard – V
It’s time to finish the “HFT in my backyard” series. The last week was intense here and around me, and I think at some point it’s good to keep silent. What’s more, this Part V abo…
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Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD
Blog about network and security, showing example of Linux iptables and Snort configuration, and Windows security softwares.
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We have broken HTTP
If you’re a web developer, then you owe your job to HTTP. You should probably know more about it than you do.
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Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers
The online attack service launched late last year by the same criminals who knocked Sony and Microsoft ’s gaming networks offline over the holidays is powered mostly by thousands of hacked home Internet routers, KrebsOnSecurity.com has discovered.
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The best ping story I've ever heard
Yes, it's true! I'm the author of ping for UNIX. Ping is a little thousand-line hack that I wrote in an evening which practically everyone seems to know about. :-)
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Secure Secure Shell
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Why are free proxies free? (2013)
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
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Using Freenet
I've been following the Freenet project for many years, occasionally firing it up and seeing if I can do anything useful with it. I've been using it regularly over the last month and it has come a long way since I first tried it. It's much faster than what it was in the past. This post describes a bit of...
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How NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
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Inline PGP signatures considered harmful
People often suggest that inline PGP signatures in e-mail are somehow more compatible or more acceptable than using PGP/MIME . This is a mistake. Inline PGP signatures are prone to several failure modes, up to and including undetectable message tampering.
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Unraveling NSA's TURBULENCE Programs
The NSA TURBULENCE program was first revealed in 2007 by the Baltimore Sun for being over-budget and poorly-managed 1 2 . Many documents from the Snowden trove from the past two years reference parts of this program, but no coherent story or overview of how these programs operate together has been described. This is…
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VP8 and H.264 to both become mandatory for WebRTC
WebRTC is one of the most exciting things to happen to the Web in years: it has the potential to bring instant voice and video calling to anyone with a browser, finally unshackling us from propriet…
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Network Link Conditioner
App developers often forget to test how their apps perform under less-than-ideal networking environments. Learn how you can use the Network Link conditioner to simulate a spotty Internet connection on your device.
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TCP is harder than it looks
It's easy to write a TCP stack that works with most traffic. It's harder to write one that interoperates properly with every strange or buggy device that's out there.
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Let's Talk About Beacons
Let's Talk About Beacons If you’ve been following the tech scene lately, you may have heard a thing or two about “Beacons”. What are Beacons? Beacons are hardware devices emitting a unique signature...
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HFT in my Backyard – IV
[Update, November 18, 2014: check episode 2 with the Latent answer to this post] There’s a thin grey line Between the black and white It’s evidently hard to find at night Depeche Mode, …
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How Verizon's Advertising Header Works
Over the past couple of days, there’s been an outpouring of concern about Verizon’s advertising practices. Verizon Wireless is injecting a unique identifier into web requests, as data transits the network. On my phone, for example, here’s the extra HTTP header. 1
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How Big is Email?
Estimating the size of the world’s communications.
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FFS SSL
wingolog: article: ffs ssl
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How Unreliable is UDP?
Unlike TCP, UDP doesn't provide any delivery or ordering guarantees. Put into practice, just how bad, or good, is UDP?
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HFT in my backyard – III
INTRO Last Friday evening, I received a tip via telephone, “You should go to the Houtem tower tomorrow morning. Jump may work on the network.” Unfortunately I couldn’t make it back to Houtem. But i…