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Taildrop was kind of easy
Learn about Taildrop, the first test of an experimental p2p app discovery layer in Tailscale. Understand why it was so easy to build, and how it works for large files.
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 119 posts.
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Disclosing E2EE vulnerability in multiple Matrix clients
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What is BGP? – BGP routing explained
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol for the Internet. Much like the post office processing mail, BGP picks the most effecient routes for delivering Internet traffic.
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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight
By Alok Tiagi, Hariharan Ananthakrishnan, Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan
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German Court Rules Against Internet Security Non-Profit Quad9
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
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How I hijacked the top-level domain of a sovereign state
Here’s how I temporarily took over 50% of all DNS traffic for the TLD of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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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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The Matrix Space Beta
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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The Pinecone Overlay Network
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Update about the October 4th outage
To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms. We’ve been working as hard as we can to restore…
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Innernet: open source Rust based Tailscale alternative
Nurture and shape your own private networks with simple, free, open-source infrastructure
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The Dunant subsea cable
The Dunant submarine cable system, crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the U.S. and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, has been deployed and tested and is now ready for service.
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Boosting upload speed and improving Windows' TCP stack
One of the best ways to find ways to improve performance, we’ve found, is to work closely with our customers. We love shared troubleshooting sessions with their own engineering teams to find and eliminate bottlenecks.
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Mitmproxy 7.0
We’re delighted to announce the release of mitmproxy 7, a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy. This release is all about our new proxy core, which bring substantial improvements across the board and represents a massive milestone for the project.
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Why not “Why not WireGuard?” (2020)
An article by Michael Tremer titled Why not WireGuard is sometimes shared in VPN discussions. Unfortunately that article contains several misconceptions and some out-of-date information that deserves to be addressed.
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37% of the world’s population have still never used the internet
New data from ITU suggest a ‘COVID connectivity boost’ – but the world’s poorest are still being left far behind, with 2.9 billion people still offline.
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This Year in Matrix
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We Built Our Own DNS Infrastructure
This post is part of a series about the wonderful world of clusters. Check out the first post for an overview of what clusters are all about. In this post we will take a peek under the hood of our hosting infrastructure and walk through how we made hosting work in a multi-cluster world. Hosting overview If you didn't…
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Group Video Calls
Today's update lets you turn on your camera or share your screen during Voice Chats in groups – on all devices, including tablets and desktops. This brings voice chats to a whole new level, ready for online classes, business meetings and family gatherings.
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How we hosted FOSDEM 2021 on Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Mozilla rolls out DoH to Canadian users of Firefox
CIRA Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver Program In a few weeks, Firefox will start the by-default rollout of DNS over HTTPS (or DoH for short) to
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Preparing Rustls for Wider Adoption
It’s time for the Internet to move on to more secure software, and that’s why our Memory Safety Initiative is coordinating work to make further improvements to the Rustls TLS library.
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Briar 1.4 – Offline sharing, message transfer via SD cards and USB sticks
Press release The Briar Project released version 1.4 of its Android app today. This release adds a couple of new features, highlighted below. First of all, users can now share the app offline. Prior to this release, the only way to get the app was to to download it from the internet, which requires an internet…
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Element Matrix Services Announces Element Home
We’ve launched a brand new version of Element, called Element Home!
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Taking FOSDEM online via Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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A brief history of router architecture
Here's what we've learnt about networks and the routers that interconnect them in the last 50 years.
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Conduit Beta – Matrix chat server
Conduit is a simple, fast and reliable chat server powered by Matrix. Conduit is an alternative to Synapse and tries to be lightweight and easy to install, but it is still in development.