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Why no curl 8
In this little piece I'll explain why there won't be any version 8 of curl and libcurl in a long time. I won't rule out that it might happen at some point in the future. Just that it won't happen anytime soon and explain the reasons why. Seven point twenty nine, really? We've done 29 … Continue reading Why no curl 8 →
How to stop Time Warner Cable sucking at Youtube
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High Performance Networking in Google Chrome
Chrome gets faster as you use it. Chrome learns the topology of the web, browsing patterns, and critical resources on every page to optimize your browsing! A look under the hood of how it all comes together...
The sound of the dialup, pictured
If you ever connected to the Internet before the 2000s, you probably remember how it sounded. But what do these sounds mean?
Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessible HP printers
A quick, well crafted Google search returns “About 86,800 results” for publically accessible HP printers.
SpoofMAC - Spoof your MAC address in Mac OS X
Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer security researcher, teacher, web developer, designer, long distance runner, gamer, music lover, and builder of websites that (sometimes) go viral.
Bypassing Gogo’s Inflight Internet Authentication
Two weeks ago I attended SIGCSE 2012 in Raleigh, NC. The plane on my return flight had Internet access through Gogo’s Inflight Internet. While I think it’s incredibly awesome that Internet access is readily available to those who travel by plane, I personally feel it is not worth …
Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network
Today, at around 2:30 PM EST, Scripts went down. For most MIT students, this means a few class websites are inaccessible, a few friends' b...
Bitsquatting: DNS Hijacking without exploitation
Researchers have exploited bit-errors before in amazing ways . But bit-errors can be detected and exploited in new ways on an Internet-wide scale. One of these means is by bitsquatting, or registering domain names one bit different than frequently resolved domains.
What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
Remember when Twitter said that client-app developers would need to “work with us directly” and “need our permission” to exceed 100,000 user-login tokens?
Websockets 101
Quick introduction into the final specification of websockets (:rfc:6455).
The UK has an entire IPv4 /8 that it isn't using
IMPORTANT UPDATES BELOW If you take a look at the list of IPv4 allocated /8 blocks there's one interesting block in there: 51.0.0.0/8 ...
Twitter cuts off “find friends” access to Tumblr
As with Instagram, the change does not seem to have affected sharing outwards, but will impede users’ ability to follow friends that they may know from Twitter. This is part of Twitter turning the screws on sharing information about the users of its network out to other services like Instagram (and by extension…