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Building end-to-end security for Messenger
We are beginning to upgrade people’s personal conversations on Messenger to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default. Meta is publishing two technical white papers on end-to-end encryption: Our …
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 1,406 posts.
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WPA3 Enterprise 192-bit mode at home
For our 2023 holiday project, we're setting up an WPA3 Enterprise certificate-authenticated Wi-Fi network at home! And when your family from out of town asks to "jump on the Wi-Fi real quick," you'll learn why this type of network is such a hassle to manage.
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SMTP Smuggling – Spoofing Emails Worldwide
Introducing a novel technique for e-mail spoofing
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AWS Network Load Balancer
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) has been an important part of AWS since 2009, when it was launched as part of a three-pack that also included Auto Scaling and Amazon CloudWatch. Since that time we have added many features, and also introduced the Application Load Balancer. Designed to support application-level…
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Let's make TCP faster
By Yuchung Cheng, Make The Web Faster Team Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), the workhorse of the Internet, is designed to deliver all...
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Google shares software network load balancer design powering GCP networking
Maglev is the software network load balancer that enables Compute Engine load balancing to serve a million requests per second with no pre-warming.
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Introducing the Dweb
This is the first post in a series about the distributed/decentralized web, introducing projects that cover social communication, online identity, file sharing, new economic models, as well as high-level application ...
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Mozilla Fights On For Net Neutrality
Mozilla took the next step today in the fight to defend the web and consumers from the FCC’s attack on an open internet. Together with other petitioners,
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Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks
Report incorrectly blocked sites on UK ISP and mobile networks.
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Mullvad Leta: A search engine used in the Mullvad Browser
Online privacy isn't just about a VPN. That’s why we have developed the Mullvad Browser.
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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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The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts
We're sharing an update on Messages, Allo, Duo, and Hangouts
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Russia restricts opposition election voting app
Mobile app store metrics from NetBlocks confirm the removal of a popular opposition election tracking app from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. The incident comes as Russia ...
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We are throttling the FCC to dialup modem speeds until they pay us for bandwidth
Since the FCC seems to have no problem with this idea, I've (through correspondence) gotten access to the FCC's internal IP block, and throttled all connections from the FCC to 28.8kbps modem speeds on the Neocities.org front site.
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Big no on Big Sur: Mullvad disallows Apple apps to bypass firewall
Despite Apple’s changes to macOS with the release of Big Sur, we can confirm that the Mullvad app still performs as intended by not allowing Apple’s own apps to bypass our VPN firewall.
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The Matrix Space Beta
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Starlink satellites hindering detection of near-Earth asteroids, study finds
A study of archival images from Zwicky Transient Facility shows an increase in satellite streaks.
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Eliminating Robocalls
Twilio's CEO talks about trusted communications, reputation, robocalling, and making it safe to pick up your phone again.
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The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able to Cut Off Your Internet Access
EFF, Public Knowledge, and the Center for Democracy and Technology Urge The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to Protect Internet Subscribers in BMG v. Cox. No one should have to fear losing their Internet connection because of unfounded accusations. But some rights holders want...
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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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Alcatel-Lucent sets record of 10 Gbps over traditional copper telephone lines
Advancing connectivity to secure a brighter world.
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NYC Mesh Begins Broadband Expansion in Brooklyn
Building a community-owned and -operated internet network for all New Yorkers
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An introduction to IPFS
By Dr. Christian Lundkvist and John Lilic
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The Pinecone Overlay Network
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Enforcing TLS protocol invariants by rolling versions every six weeks
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Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?
It is common knowledge among Wi-Fi professionals that using 20 MHz or 40 MHz channel widths when planning 5 GHz networks offers the best overall ex
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