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QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is a new encrypted-by-default Internet transport protocol, that provides a number of improvements designed to accelerate HTTP traffic as well as make it more secure, with the intended goal of eventually replacing TCP and TLS on the web.
At 7:30 PM PST on January 12th, access to Twitter from Tweetbot and many other 3rd party apps have stopped working. We've reached out to Twitter for more details, but as of yet have not heard anything back.
Over the past few months, we’ve been experimenting with DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), a protocol which uses encryption to protect DNS requests and responses, with the goal of deploying DoH by default ...
When a browser connects to websites over HTTPS (vs. HTTP), eavesdroppers and attackers on the network can't intercept or alter the data that...
Those of you who have been around for a while may remember a time when you used to be able to mount kernel.org directly as a partition on your system using NFS (or even SMB/CIFS). The Wayback Machine shows that this was still advertised some time in January 1998 , but was removed by the time the December 1998 copy was…
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At 1:19pm, a researcher noticed that the New York Times' website wasn't loading. We know the New York Times tech team, so we emailed to check in. Minutes later, the CTO of the NYT called us back.
More than 70,000 users have already chosen on their own to explicitly enable DoH in Firefox Release edition. We are close to releasing DoH in the USA, and we have a few updates to share.
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
League of Legends players collectively send millions of messages every day. They're asking friends to duo-queue, suggesting a team comp on the champ select screen, and thanking opponents for a good game. On July 21st of this year (I p…
Nowadays, Bluetooth is an integral part of mobile devices. Smartphones interconnect with smartwatches and wireless headphones. By default, most devices are configured to accept Bluetooth connections from any nearby unauthenticated device. Bluetooth packets are processed by the Bluetooth chip (also called a…
Webex is rolling out the AV1 video codec into production early next year, bringing our media quality to the next level.
Despite having been around for over 20 years, HTTPS always remained very lightly adopted – until 2016. Data from two independent sources shows that HTTPS adoption more than doubled from 2015 to 2016. Snyk CEO Guy Podjarny digs into this data.
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We are excited to announce for the first time that we have received and processed ADS-B signals collected by our autonomous boat. The unmanned surface vehicle, a Wave Glider® manufactured by Liquid Robotics® and managed by Maritime Robotics as part of their new partnership, is receiving ADS-B signals from aircraft…
"I could take down the internet with that, and so could you." Dan Geer, Chief Information Security Officer of CIA’s venture capital arm, didn't mince words when he mentioned the security flaws in home routers during his keynote address at last month's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. But he also...
DMARC verifies a domain owner authorised an email; it does not verify the email is safe. Where DMARC helps, where it falls short, and why authentication is not trust.
Exploring why Rust is our preferred language for a core WebRTC library
Blue Origin today announced TeraWave, a satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth.
There’s some recent discussion about the sky falling for XMPP at Google. See this blog post by Dan York for example. In reality, we don’t know the state of XMPP inside Google because they don’t share their use of XMPP with the XSF. …
