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Targeting HTTP's Hidden Attack-Surface
Modern websites are browsed through a lens of transparent systems built to enhance performance, extract analytics and supply numerous additional services. This almost invisible attack surface has been
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 1,406 posts.
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Vectis IP Announces Call for Patents Essential to the Opus codec
London, UK: UK-based IP and technology licensing company Vectis IP today announced a call for patents essential to the Opus codec.
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Mitmproxy 8
We’re delighted to announce the release of mitmproxy 8, a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy. This release brings major improvements to mitmweb, our web interface, and new functionality for addon developers.
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Cerulean: Experimental micro-blogging app for Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Mailing lists are resistant to censorship
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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RFC 9420 a.k.a. Messaging Layer Security
Messaging Layer Security has been published. MLS is the first standardized, fully specified, freely accessible end-to-end encryption protocol.
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Centralised DoH is bad for privacy
Recently, Mozilla announced it would be moving Firefox DNS lookups to Cloudflare by default, for its American audience.
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Deploying key transparency at WhatsApp
WhatsApp has launched a new cryptographic security feature to automatically verify a secured connection based on key transparency. The feature requires no additional actions or steps from users an…
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Internet disrupted in Myanmar amid military coup
Network data from the NetBlocks Internet Observatory indicate the onset of widespread internet disruptions in Myanmar on Sunday 31 January 2021 (UTC) amid reports of a military uprising and the ...
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Intel's Tofino P4 Software Is Now Open Source
Contributed by Deb Chatterjee, Intel We are excited to usher in the dawn of a new era for the P4 programming language. For many years, the Tofino family of programmable...
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TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source
Today is a big day for us, and for everyone who cares about transparency, privacy, and having full control over their own traffic. We’re finally open-sourcing the protocol that powers AdGuard VPN. And it now has a name: TrustTunnel.
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Riot Games Messaging Service
Hey there! My name is Michal 0xDEADB33F Ptaszek, and I’m a software architect at Riot. Today I would like to talk about communication. But not the kind of communication you’re probably thinking of. I want to talk about the other, more exci…
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Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome
HTTP/2 Server Push will be disabled by default in Chrome 106
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Nuclear radiation used to transmit digital data wirelessly
Engineers have successfully transferred digitally encoded information wirelessly using nuclear radiation instead of conventional technology.
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Securing Your Domain Against Seizure: Where Is Safe to Register a Domain Name?
The Gun.io blog: insights on hiring software developers, AI in engineering, distributed teams and how to build high-performing technical teams.
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HTTP/2 zero-day vulnerability results in record-breaking DDoS attacks
The “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset” attack exploits a weakness in the HTTP/2 protocol to generate enormous, hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. Cloudflare has mitigated a barrage of these attacks in recent months, including an attack three times larger than any previous attack we’ve observed
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Bluesky Trademarks ATProto
Bluesky now owns the trademark for AT Protocol to shield the ecosystem and make sure it can be used as widely as possible.
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The value of Tor and anonymous contributions to Wikipedia
According to a recently published research paper co-authored by researchers from Drexel, NYU, and the University of Washington, Tor users make high-quality contributions to Wikipedia. And, when they are blocked, as doctoral candidate Chau Tran, the lead author describes, "the collateral damage in the form of…
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ZeroMQ is just sockets
Kim: Yeah, right. It's just sockets . Course, it's totally portable so you don't have to handle all the weird stuff different operating systems ask you to do.
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Git.io deprecation: Active links to be maintained in a read-only state
2022-04-27 Update: While the git.io url redirection service is read-only and use of the service is limited, we have received feedback from developers and academic researchers who have published git.io…
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DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it
DMARC has been public since 2012. We checked 67,336 domains: 68.4% still have no policy or one that does not enforce it.
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ATProto for distributed system engineers
In this article we're going to explore atproto from the perspective of distributed backend engineering.
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We halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85%
Zone setting changes used to rebuild entire DNS zones, even ones with tens of millions of records. Here is how we built a planner that picks the smallest safe build, cutting full builds by 40%, peak memory by 85%, and halving build delay.
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How Passive Radar Works
Passive radar is radar that doesn't need a transmitter; it uses existing broadcasts of opportunity.
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The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't ignore
Björn Brembs argues that learned societies should lead developments on federated social media platforms, such as Mastodon.
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Element Matrix Services Launches Bridging for Microsoft Teams
After offering bridges to Discord, Slack and Telegram, Element Matrix Services (EMS) is now launching Microsoft Teams Bridging.
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Geolocating requests with Google Load Balancer for free
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