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Explain like I’m 5: Kerberos (2013)
Explain like I’m 5 years old: Kerberos – what is Kerberos, and why should I care?
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 1,615 posts.
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Redoing all my home networking
How I set up my home lab to be my very own cloud.
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TLS 1.3 and Proxies
I'll generally ignore the internet froth in a given week as much as possible, but when Her Majesty's Government starts repeating misunderstandings about TLS 1.3 it is necessary to write something, if only to have a pointer ready for when people start citing it as evidence.
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.localhost Domains
I’ve found a way to configure private, custom domains for web-apps I have running on my computer. So instead of having to remember and type “localhost:4333”, I can simply navigate to “appname.localhost”. I love it!
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The 5GHz “Problem” for Wi-Fi Networks: DFS (2018)
Wi-Fi networking provides us with 2 bands for the operation of wireless LAN networks: the 2.4Ghz band and the 5GHz band. The 2.4GHz band has...
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Slack client for Commodore 64
Slack is great. Many smarter people than me also think that Slack is great. Slack is great because its simple and easier to deal with than emails. With all t...
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Server-sent events, WebSockets, and HTTP
The orange site is currently discussing an article about Server-Sent Events, especially as compared with WebSockets (and the emerging WebTransport). Both the article and discussion are well-informed, but I think they miss out on one aspect that has fairly deep implications.
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How a little bit of TCP knowledge is essential
Why you should understand (a little) about TCP
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From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story
Like many of you, I've got hardware on my desk that's sending UDP packets, and the time has come to take a closer look at them.
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Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity
A technical blog about Rust, Linux and other topics.
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Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream
The long way around to screen sharing.
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ShadowBrokers: The NSA Compromised the SWIFT Network
This is by far, the most interesting release from Shadow Brokers as it does not only contain tools — but also materials describing the most…
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HTTP/2 Continuation Flood: Technical Details
Preface In October 2023 I learned about HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack, dubbed “the largest DDoS attack to date”. I didn’t have deep knowledge of HTTP/2 back then. I knew its basics like frames or HPACK but I was focusing more on HTTP/1.1 protocol and programming languages vulnerabilities. I decided to dedicate time to…
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The United States Frequency Allocation Chart
This crazy, beautiful chart illustrates the incredible complexity of managing one of our nation’s most crucial – and invisible – national assets: the radio spectrum.
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AOL 3.0 reverse engineered
Your life is the best story! Just start your blog today!
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Grave flaws in BGP Error handling
Border Gateway Protocol is the de facto protocol that directs routing decisions between different ISP networks, and is generally known as the “glue” that holds the internet together. It’s safe to say that the internet we currently know would not function without working BGP implementations.
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CloudFlare is ruining the internet for me (2016)
Follow up: Cloudflare: Making the internet a little bit faster – for a select group of people CloudFlare is a very helpful service if you are a website owner and don’t want to deal with separate…
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