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Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 124 posts.
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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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Brave Talk: Unlimited, private video calls, in browser
Brave Talk brings unlimited, private video calls, right to your browser. No extra apps. No tracking. Just free connections, powered by Brave.
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How to stop running out of ephemeral ports and love long-lived connections
Often programmers have assumptions that turn out, to their surprise, to be invalid. From my experience this happens a lot. Every API, technology or system can be abused beyond its limits and break in a miserable way
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Rocket.chat leverages the Matrix protocol for interoperable communications
Learn more about how the leading open-source platform is furthering its efforts toward collaboration without compromise
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Amazon, Verizon found using IPv4 240/4 addresses
In this article we use data from RIPE Atlas probes to investigate the usage of 240/4, a block of IPv4 addresses 'reserved for future use', formally known as Class E in the wild.
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Help Censored Users – Run a Tor Bridge
Today the Tor Project is launching the Run a Tor Bridge campaign. Participants are invited to contribute and help censored users by running a Tor bridge. You can find more details below, including our special reward kits for participants. The campaign will run from November 17 to January 7, 2022. Join us and help…
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VPN by Google One security assessment
Cutting-edge cyber security research from NCC Group. Find public reports, technical advisories, analyses, & other novel insights from our global experts.
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TP240PhoneHome Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Vector
A new reflection/amplification distributed denial of service (DDoS) vector with a record-breaking potential amplification ratio of 4,294,967,296:1 has been abused by attackers in the wild to launch multiple high-impact DDoS attacks.
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Dino 0.3: Video calls and conferences – encrypted and peer-to-peer
A privacy-friendly messaging app for the desktop. It uses the XMPP protocol and provides a clean UI with modern features.
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Google's Subsea Fiber Optics
Fiber optic networks are a foundation of the modern internet. In fact, subsea cables carry 99% of international network traffic , and yet we are barely aware that they exist. What you might not know is that the first subsea cable was deployed in 1858 for telegraph messages between Europe and North America. A message…
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Over 20k servers have their iLO interfaces exposed to the internet
Over 20 thousand servers have their iLO interfaces exposed to the internet, many with outdated and vulnerable versions of FW, Author: Jan Kopriva
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Interoperability without sacrificing privacy: Matrix and the DMA
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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“I survived the TCP transition” (2013)
This year we invited Vint Cerf to tell the story.
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Using WebTransport
The WebTransport API offers low-latency, bidirectional, client-server messaging. Learn about its use cases, and how to give feedback about the future of the implementation.
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Best Practices for Securing SSH
This article explores 5 SSH best practices you should observe to boost the security of your infrastructure.
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Explore Matter, the new smart home standard, in Home Assistant
On June 15 we're showing how Matter will work and guide you in getting it set up.
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Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues?
Meter is currently tracking an issue that is affecting M1/M2 Macbooks and leading to slow internet connection, drops in Zoom calls, and entirely losing a Wi-Fi connection.
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Lasershark: Fast, bidirectional communication into air-gapped systems
We present a novel approach to infiltrate data to air-gapped systems without any additional hardware on-site.
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DNS-over-HTTP/3 in Android
Posted by Matthew Maurer and Mike Yu, Android team To help keep Android users’ DNS queries private, Android supports encrypted DNS. I...
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HAProxy 2.7
HAProxy 2.7 adds features such as Traffic Shaping, Stick Tables Sharding, Scalability Improvements, and Layer 7 HTTP Retry Updates.
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Video Live Streaming: Notes on RTMP, HLS, and WebRTC
A Daily guide on live streaming, RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, low latency audio/video, and real-time calls, and well as their similarities and differences.
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Facebook (Meta) international cable expansion: animated map
Facebook has increased its submarine cable holdings from near-zero to 6% of the world's total backbone infrastructure as of 2022, and will double by 2024.
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Twitter restricted in Russia amid conflict with Ukraine
NetBlocks metrics confirm the restriction of Twitter in Russia from the morning of Saturday 26 February 2022. Facebook servers have subsequently been restricted as of Sunday. The restrictions are in ...
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IETF: The HTTP Query Method ( Draft)
This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.
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Mitmproxy 9: WireGuard Mode
We’re excited to announce the release of mitmproxy 9, a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy. This release brings support for raw UDP and DTLS, a new WireGuard proxy mode, and major usability improvements.
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Bluetooth signals can be used to identify and track smartphones
A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego has demonstrated for the first time that the Bluetooth signals emitted constantly by our mobile phones have a unique fingerprint that can be used to track individuals’ movements.
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Congestion Control Arrives in Tor 0.4.7-stable
Tor has released 0.4.7.7, the first stable Tor release with support for congestion control. Congestion control will result in significant performance improvements in Tor, once Exit relays upgrade. Relay operators: please read!
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Stop using low DNS TTLs (2019)
Guest Post: Why does half the Internet use a TTL of 1 minute or less?