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ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money
ICANN has announced significant changes to the contract it has with Verisign, Inc. to operate the top-level domain .COM, including .COM price increases.
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Critical Bluetooth vulnerability in Android
On November 3rd, 2019, we have reported a critical vulnerability affecting the Android Bluetooth subsystem. This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2020-0022 and was now patched in the latest security patch from February 2020. The security impact is as follows:
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Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol
Identify which devices of your company are impacted by five vulnerabilities that Armis found out in the Cisco Discovery Protocol (CPD).
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Decentralize Messaging
Twitter is funding a team to decentralize social media. I think they should start with messaging.
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The text adventure game of exiting a Telnet session
We've all been there, right? You debug something, you try telnet to see if a port is open, and now you're stuck in a telnet session.
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Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging
A privacy-friendly messaging app for the desktop. It uses the XMPP protocol and provides a clean UI with modern features.
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Starlink Is a Big Deal
Today, I watched a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket leave Cape Canaveral and deliver 60 small Starlink satellites to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) on the Starlink L3 mission.…
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Building a Simple VPN with WireGuard with a Raspberry Pi as Server
Now that wireguard will be part of the upcoming Linux 5.6 Kernel it’s time to see how to best integrate it with my Raspberry Pi based LTE-Router/Access Point Setup. What is my scenario? Raspberry Pi 3 with a LTE hat, using a public IP address. This will be the VPN server (called edgewalker in this post) An Android…
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MIDI 2.0, first major overhaul to music interface standard from 1983
The new standard is almost here. Will it change how producers and performers make music?
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Does Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?
If you’re running a business online, few things can be as disruptive or destructive to your brand as someone stealing your company’s domain name and doing whatever they wish with it. Even so, most major Web site owners aren’t taking full advantage of the security tools available to protect their domains from being…
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SaveDotOrg Protest at ICANN in Los Angeles this Friday Jan 24
Learn how the nonprofit community united in 2019 behind a successful campaign organized by NTEN and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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I2C in a Nutshell
A community and blog for embedded software makers
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Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me
A classically trained sysadmin shouting into the void.
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How to Make a Raspberry Pi VPN Server
Learn how to make a Raspberry Pi VPN server using OpenVPN, PiVPN, Surfshark, and WireGuard! You can set up a VPN tunnel for access to your home network while away.
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Benchmarking DNS response times of TLDs
We tested and benchmarked 42 of some of the most popular top-level domains and aggregated the results into a global median average.
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Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz
Wi-Fi 6E will rapidly deliver benefits in 6 GHz once available
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No, that dot in the domain name of the URL is not a mistake (2004)
You've come to this page because you've asked a question similar to the following:
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Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code
Up until recently, it was a pain to defend againt WPA2 brute-force attacks by using a random 63-character password (the maximum in WPA-Personal ) mode). Thanks to Android 10 and iOS 11 supporting reading WiFi passwords from a QR code, this is finally a practical defense.
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Flight stats, entertainment, and trying to crack Widevine
Investigating onboard flight entertainment APIs, flight telemetry, and Widevine-protected media.
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Guide to Software Defined Radio
LuaRadio
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Welcoming Mozilla to Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Cisco devices must regenerate self-signed certificates before 2020
Self-signed X.509 PKI certificates (SSC) that were generated on devices that run affected Cisco IOS® or Cisco IOS XE software releases expire on 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. New self-signed certificates cannot be created on affected devices after 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. Any service that relies on these self-signed…
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NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver
NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver Program Committing to Data Retention and Transparency Requirements that Respect User Privacy Firefox a
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The Great $50M African IP Address Heist
A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to…
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The Nintendo Switch Switch
Yesterday I had the idea that it would be cool if I turned a Nintendo Switch (will be referred to as NX to avoid confusion as NX is the code name for the Nintendo Switch ) console into an actual network switch. I thought about it a bit and realized that it would be doable in hardware at least, since the NX docking…
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Technology Preview: Signal Private Group System
Groups are inherently social, and Signal is a social app. Whether you’re planning a surprise party, discussing last night’s book club meeting, exchanging photos with your family, or organizing something important, group messaging has always been a key feature of Signal. Signal provides private gr...
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