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How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things
New radios that combine miles of range with years of battery life are changing the way we build and use connected devices. Here’s how.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,021 posts.
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Tor Messenger Beta: Chat Over Tor, Easily
WARNING STARTS As of March 2018, Tor Messenger is no longer maintained and you should NOT use...
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Onion names reserved by the IETF
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the body that sets standards for the Internet, has...
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How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH
In a post on Wednesday, researchers Alex Halderman and Nadia Heninger presented compelling research suggesting that the NSA has developed the capability to decrypt a large number of HTTPS, SSH, and VPN connections using an attack on common implementations of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange...
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What’s new in HAProxy 1.6
13th of October 2015, Willy Terrau announced the release of HAProxy 1.6.0, after 16 months of development. A total of 1156 commits from 59 people were committed.
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How to Download a List of All Registered Domain Names
Security and Programming Blog
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Filtering millions of packets per second on commodity NICs
In a previous post we discussed the performance limitations of the Linux kernel network stack. We detailed the available kernel bypass techniques allowing user space programs to receive packets with high throughput.
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League of Legends Chat Service Architecture
League of Legends players collectively send millions of messages every day. They're asking friends to duo-queue, suggesting a team comp on the champ select screen, and thanking opponents for a good game. On July 21st of this year (I p…
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I hope WebDAV dies
WebDAV is a file access and transfer protocol created in the 90s. It has support for file locks, arbitrary key-value properties attached to folders, file mimetypes, and many other features that extend this standard. It also has powerful access control features.
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Bypassing the Linux kernel for high-performance packet filtering
In two previous posts we've discussed how to receive 1M UDP packets per second and how to reduce the round trip time. We did the experiments on Linux and the performance was very good considering it's a general purpose operating system.
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Will there be a Distributed HTTP?
One of the things that came up at the HTTP Workshop was “distributed HTTP” — i.e., moving the Web from a client/server model to a more distributed one. This week, Brewster Khale (of Archive.org fame) talked about similar thoughts on his blog and at CCC. If you haven’t seen that yet, I’d highly suggest watching the…
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AT&T Hotspots: Now with Advertising Injection
While traveling through Dulles Airport last week, I noticed an Internet oddity. The nearby AT&T hotspot was fairly fast—that was a pleasant surprise.
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Locking the Web Open: A Call for a Distributed Web
(Short form article, Short lecture , Long lecture , demo of a fraction of the idea of a distributed website (or paste this link in maelstrom ))
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The network is hostile
Yesterday the New York Times and ProPublica posted a lengthy investigation based on leaked NSA documents, outlining the extensive surveillance collaboration between AT&T and the U.S. government…
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Why is Bitcoin forking?
A tale of differing visions
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Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec
Video codecs remain an area of active research and development. The current generation video codec is H.264 – in widespread usage on the Internet. Cisco
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Wi-Fi and LTE in Unlicensed Spectrum Bands
by Nihar Jindal, Hardware Engineer, Access & Energy In the 20 years since the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) first made spectr...
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