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Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?

Should All Web Traffic Be Encrypted?

Google Public DNS: 70 billion requests a day and counting

Official Google Blog2012105 points52 commentsNetworking & Internet details

Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture

AT&T Throttling Unlimited Plans after 2GB Data Use

Observations from two weeks of SSH brute force attacks

Dear Comcast, I'm leaving you because...

Let's make TCP faster

Google Code Blog2012287 points36 commentsNetworking & Internet details

By Yuchung Cheng, Make The Web Faster Team Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), the workhorse of the Internet, is designed to deliver all...

The next SOPA

Marco Arment2012558 points165 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details

Every few years, the MPAA’s lobbying power, rhetoric, and immense campaign contributions succeed in purchasing a bill in Congress to advance their agenda in a way that’s hostile to the technology industry and consumers.

World IPv6 Launch on June 6, 2012, To Bring Permanent IPv6 Deployment

Internet Society2012102 points41 commentsNetworking & Internet details

Today marks the start of a new era for IPv6. Building on the great success of last year’s World IPv6 Day, this year’s “World IPv6 Launch” will bring together major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world to permanently enable IPv6 for their…

SOPA is a Red Herring

Dave Winer2012233 points43 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details

Emergency NYTech Meetup to Stop SOPA Jan 18

Damn Cool Algorithms: Fountain Codes

Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under bittorrent , lt-codes , damn-cool-algorithms , fountain-codes

World's Largest Wi-Fi Network Keeps Passwords in Plain Text