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Xerox Alto's 3 Mb/s Ethernet: Building a Gateway with a BeagleBone
The Alto was a revolutionary computer designed at Xerox PARC in 1973. It introduced the GUI, high-resolution bitmapped displays, the optic...
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WPA3 Wifi Security Protocol Announced
New Wi-Fi® security features available in 2018Las Vegas, NV – January 8, 2018 – Wi-Fi Alliance® introduces enhancements and new features for Wi-Fi Protected Access®, the essential family of Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ security technologies for more than a decade. Wi-Fi Alliance is launching configuration, authentication, and…
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California Introduces Its Own Bill to Protect Net Neutrality
2018 has barely begun, and so has the fight to preserve net neutrality. January 3 was the first day of business in the California state legislature, and state Sen. Scott Wiener used it to introduce legislation to protect net neutrality for Californians. As the FCC has sought to abandon its role as...
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As the U.S. Retreats, Canada Doubles Down on Net Neutrality
As the U.S. Federal Communications Commission prepares to rollback net neutrality protections, the Canadian government has used the controversy to double down on its support for net neutrality safeguards, linking it to democracy, equality, and freedom of expression. I've written several posts on how the U.S. decision…
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Now that the FCC has repealed net neutrality, let’s adopt it in California
Today the Federal Communications Commission repealed net neutrality — a terrible step for the future of a free and open internet and for…
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TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds
A design flaw in TP-Link Wi-Fi repeater firmware causes it to waste an excessive amount of bandwidth on NTP timekeeping. DDoS’ed public NTP servers in the process.
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Internet protocols are changing
Guest Post: Learn about the significant recent changes being made to the core Internet protocols.
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IPvlan overlay-free Kubernetes Networking in AWS
Lyft is pleased to announce the initial open source release of our IPvlan-based CNI networking stack for running Kubernetes at scale in…
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Redoing all my home networking
How I set up my home lab to be my very own cloud.
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Randomize your WiFi MAC address on Ubuntu
Your device’s MAC address can be used to track you across the WiFi networks you connect to. That data can be shared and sold, and often identifies you as an individual. It’s possible to limit this tracking by using pseudo-random MAC addresses.
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DASH playback of AV1 video in Firefox
Bitmovin and Mozilla, both members of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), are partnering to bring AV1 playback with HTML5 to Firefox as the first browser to play AV1 MPEG-DASH/HLS ...
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The beginning of the end for copper wire
The FCC voted last Thursday to relax the rules for retiring copper wiring. This change was specifically aimed at Verizon and AT&T and is going to make it a lot easier for them to tear down old …
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Cloudflare Reports Massive Slowdown in Network Level DDoS Attacks
News outlets and blogs will frequently compare DDoS attacks by the volume of traffic that a victim receives. Surely this makes some sense, right? The greater the volume of traffic a victim receives, the harder to mitigate an attack - right?
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SSH vs. OpenVPN for Tunneling
Update 28.01.16 I found some sites referring to this post. Below are the common complaints I saw, and my replies:
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Net Neutrality will die, so let’s take the profit out of killing it
Fighting the FCC is futile at this point, but Bob has a way to (in a way) save Net Neutrality
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Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit
The thoughts and projects of an engineer who likes to convert solder, firmware, and wire into all sorts of different forms of entertainment.
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.IO domain name reliability issues and how we’re working around them
Switching from a .io domain name to a .com domain name helped with downtime and improve reliability on our API clients.Domain resolution is one of the backbone services of the Internet. It's something we typically spend very little time thinking about. Of course, that changes when it breaks. Over the past year, IO…
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USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (2012)
Browse Intel product information for Intel® Core™ processors, Intel® Xeon® processors, Intel® Arc™ graphics and more.
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Andromeda 2.1 reduces GCP’s intra-zone latency by 40%
The latest version of Andromeda reduces network latency between Compute Engine VMs by 40% over Andromeda 2.0 and by nearly a factor of 8 since we first launched Andromeda in 2014.
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Fixing the Ethernet Board from a Vintage Xerox Alto
A Xerox Alto system on the East coast had Ethernet problems, so the owner sent me the Ethernet board to diagnose. (After restoring our Alto,...
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The sound of the dialup, pictured (2012)
If you ever connected to the Internet before the 2000s, you probably remember how it sounded. But what do these sounds mean?
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Tor's Fall Harvest: The Next Generation of Onion Services
We are hyped to present the next generation of onion services! We've been working on this project non-stop for the past 4 years and we officially launched it two weeks ago by publishing our first alpha releases. All in all, the new system is a well needed improvement that fixes many shortcomings of the old design, and…
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