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Matrix 1.0 – Are We Ready Yet?
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto
A Git collaboration platform, built on AT Protocol
Welcoming Mozilla to Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Threeuk is blocking Tutanota
ISPs must not have the power to decide which online services users can or can not access.
Adding Encrypted Group Calls to Signal
2020 has seen its fair number of challenges and changes. We’ve all adapted to new ways of staying in touch, getting work done, celebrating birthdays and weddings, and even exercising. As more and more of our critical and personal moments move online, we want to continue to provide you with new wa...
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...
Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China
Akamai provides a global CDN that serves visitors inside and outside of China via the Akamai global network and strategic in-country partners.
Espresso – Google’s peering edge architecture
Today, we gave a keynote presentation at the Open Networking Summit, where we shared details about Espresso, Google’s peering edge architecture—the latest offering in ou…
If IPv4 were land
An interactive world map where every country is resized by how many IPv4 addresses it holds instead of its land area. Flip between real land and IPv4 land, zoom in, and compare countries.
Encrypted SNI Comes to Firefox Nightly
TL;DR: Firefox Nightly now supports encrypting the TLS Server Name Indication (SNI) extension, which helps prevent attackers on your network from learning your browsing history. You can enable encrypted SNI ...
Accenture to acquire Ookla
Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire Ookla, a global leader in network intelligence, competitive benchmarking and customer experience analytics.
ICANN Calls for DNSSEC for All Domains Following Domain Hijacking Attempts
Announcement that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) believes there is an ongoing and significant risk to key parts of the Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure and is calling for the full deployment of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) across all unsecured domain names.
Proposed top-level domain string for private use: ".internal"
ICANN received a total of 32 public comments from across the community on the Proposed Top-Level Domain String for Private Use. Thirteen of these were in support of the proposal. Of the remaining nineteen comments, six believed a shorter string should be selected, one believed a more meaningful string should be…
The foundation of a more secure web: Google Trust Services
Posted by Ryan Hurst, Security and Privacy Engineering In support of our work to implement HTTPS across all of our products ( https://www.g...
Whatever happened to due process?
This morning I received the following email: Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Dear Sir or Madam, Re: Website domain name suspension request #2 On the 24th September 2013, EasyDNS Technologies was emailed a domain suspension request for the following domain(s) that to date we have not received a reply nor seen…
Introducing ProtonMail's Tor hidden service
As part of our efforts to continue protecting user privacy, we are launching a Tor hidden service to combat censorship and surveillance of Proton Mail users.
Enhanced noise suppression in Jitsi Meet
For a while now Jitsi Meet has been using the RNNoise library to calculate voice audio detection scores for audio input tracks and leveraging those to implement functionality such as “talk while muted” and “noisy […]
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Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope
We have used the historic Dwingeloo radio telescope to receive signals from the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Only a few telescopes in the world have received these signals, which are very faint due to the distance of Voyager 1: almost 25 billion kilometers, more than four times the distance to Pluto.
Threat actor abuses Cloudflare tunnels to deliver remote access trojans
Key findings Proofpoint has observed an increase in malware delivery via TryCloudflare Tunnel abuse. The activity is financially motivated and delivers exclusively remote
Why we will not be registering easydns.sucks
Similar to how it's getting harder these days to differentiate actual news from The Onion satires, reality takes on a somewhat surreal timbre when it starts to imitate your April Fool's gags from yesteryear… In 2011 we joked "easyDNS To Launch .SUX TLD", in which we posited a thinly veiled…
AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
Many organizations use SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) as part of long-established data processing and partner integration workflows. While it would be easy to dismiss these systems as “legacy,” the reality is that they serve a useful purpose and will continue to do so for quite some time. We want to help our…
Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern
John Villasenor warns about the vulnerabilities of businesses and schools using one videoconferencing platform during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications