Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 201 posts.
Exactly 100% of everything on the Internet involves exchanging messages which represent items of interest to humans. These items can be classified into three baskets: One for “media” (images, sound, video), one for text (HTML, PDF, XML), and one for “objects” (chat messages, payments, love poems, order statuses). This…
Running a complex network is not an easy job. In addition to simply keeping it up and running, you need to keep an ever-watchful eye out for unusual traffic patterns or content that could signify a network intrusion, a compromised instance, or some other anomaly. VPC Traffic Mirroring Today we are launching VPC…
With over two decades of global impact, Mozilla Foundation continues to lead the movement for a better technology future—powered by people, open by design, and fueled by imagination.
I've recently read about a couple of boycotts trying to call attention to Amazon's bad labor practices. The most recent of these boycotts hopes to lead a boycott on Amazon's induced buying holiday "Prime Day", in solidarity with striking workers in several fulfillment centers in Spain. I support anyone fighting for a…
A blog about signals, programming, music, and other stuff.
API Gateways are going through a bit of an identity crisis these days.
5G is overkill for phones but that's okay because for carriers it is really about destroying broadcast and cable TV, ISPs, and telephone companies. One network to rule them all.
In a vote of 232-190, the House of Representatives passed the Save the Internet Act (H.R. 1644). This is a major step forward in the fight for net neutrality protections, and it’s because you spoke up about what you want.The Save the Internet Act was written to restore the strong and hard-fought...
Get modern messaging features in the US with RCS in the Messages app
This whitepaper explains the basic technical details of STIR/SHAKEN call authentication and how it prevents caller ID spoofing.
Investigating onboard flight entertainment APIs, flight telemetry, and Widevine-protected media.
Our servers manage heaps of network packets, from legit traffic to big DDoS attacks. For top efficiency, we adopted eXpress Data Path (XDP), a Linux kernel tool for swift, low-level packet handling.
A technical review of the live score feature in Google search results, delivered with some surprisingly old-school tech from the 90s.
This weekend at the excellent FOSDEM gathering there were no less than three presentations on DNS over HTTPs.
At the end of March 2019 I did a talk at the INEX’s (Ireland’s biggest internet exchange point) Annual General Meeting. I was supposed to record it, however in a brief panic due to HDMI not working on my laptop I forgot to start a recording of it. Since people found it interesting I figured I would turn it into a blog…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Users of kernels < 5.6 may also choose wireguard-lts or wireguard-dkms + linux-headers , depending on which kernel is used.
This post is part of our ongoing series about networks, privacy, governments and (of course) online security tools like Cloak. Last week, the Washington Post unleashed yet another bombshell revelation from the Snowden documents.
