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Table of contents Introduction The situation today The competitors What is/will be available What the market offers Licensing of other media coding standards My views on the next steps of media coding standards A disclosure My forecast So, what will happen next? And now? Introduction My plan this week was to talk…
Today, we're releasing a new version of SSL Rating Guide as well as a new version of SSL Test to go with it. Because the...
MPEG-TS is still used extensively, even in “modern” transport mechanisms such as SRT, RIST and Zixi. Why though?
The robustness principle, often phrased as "be conservative in what you send, and liberal in what you accept", has long guided the design and implementation of Internet protocols. The posture this statement advocates promotes interoperability in the short term, but can negatively affect the protocol ecosystem over…
Europe’s top telecom regulator dealt a strong blow to Europe’s biggest telecoms in a report released in October, finding “no evidence” to justify the proposal from large broadband companies like Deutsche Telekom and Orange to force websites and apps to pay them. The report comes after European Commission
Senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt push the Defense Department to expand the use of Matrix to deliver sovereign, end-to-end encrypted and interoperable communications.
A vulnerability in Broadcom’s proprietary WPS implementation enables unauthenticated attackers within WiFi range to leak memory and achieve unauthenticated remote code execution on millions of routers. This post covers its discovery through agentic vulnerability research, exploitation across eCos and Linux platforms…
An intuitive and ground-up introduction to I/Q signals. Learn the foundational concepts through clear geometric analogy perfect for beginners
Back in 2015 we deployed ECMP routing - Equal Cost Multi Path - within our datacenters. This technology allowed us to spread traffic heading to a single IP address across multiple physical servers.
Brian Scott made an app that's safe, simple, and educational for kids to chat in, using Tailscale's tsnet and connectivity.
As well as the collection and distribution of compromised keys , the pwnedkeys project also matches those pwned keys against issued SSL certificates. I’m excited to announce that, as of the beginning of 2024, all matched certificates are now being published on the Fediverse , thanks to the botsin.space Mastodon server.
The following is a summary of an internal research project conducted by Hudson H. and Andrew G.
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.
WhatsApp users in Europe will soon have the possibility to message users of other services.
The free DNS4EU resolver, for everyone in Europe. Get the addresses, set it up in minutes, and block malware and phishing with no tracking.
blog about networking, cameras, old gear, and xmpp
by Nihar Jindal, Hardware Engineer, Access & Energy In the 20 years since the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) first made spectr...
**Russian ship loitering near undersea cables** Updated: Original article 9th Oct. 2016. The Russian Navy’s Project 22010 mini-sub host ship Yantar is known for loitering near undersea internet cables (known as Submarine communications Cables - SCC). It may have other special missions also…. Read More >….
I've been moving my home storage over to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 as part of a larger ...
Some new proposed protocols will encrypt the transport layer headers. Encryption is good, so more encryption must be better, right? Unfortunately there's going to be a huge hidden cost that'll be paid by anyone troubleshooting networking problems.
Is it fair to describe DECT-2020 NR as a 5G wireless technology at all?
If you have experienced HTTP/2 for yourself, you are probably aware of the visible performance gains possible with HTTP/2 due to features like stream multiplexing, explicit stream dependencies, and Server Push.
Today marks the start of a new era for IPv6. Building on the great success of last year’s World IPv6 Day, this year’s “World IPv6 Launch” will bring together major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world to permanently enable IPv6 for their…
The MIKEY-SAKKE protocol is being promoted by the UK government as a better way to secure phone calls. The reality is that MIKEY-SAKKE is designed to offer minimal security while allowing undetectable mass surveillance, through the introduction a backdoor based around mandatory key-escrow. This weakness has…
I have finished my cruise now, which was mostly holiday, but also some work. I did some training for my mates (mainly in C coding) and we di...
When it was announced that the Nexus S would have a built-in NFC radio, I immediately started thinking about the potential of using cell phones with RFID public transit fare systems. The day the Gingerbread source code was released, I picked up a Nexus S and began working on a proof-of-concept application that can…
At Google, we're always working to make the web faster. The SPDY protocol , which is now the foundation of the upcoming HTTP 2.0 protocol, i...
Did you know that if your site’s under ~12kb the first page will load significantly faster? Servers only send a few packets (typically 10) in the initial round-trip while TCP is warming up (referred to as TCP slow start). After sending the first set of packets, it needs to wait for the client to acknowledge it…
