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A Censorship-Resistant Web
Imagine someone put a document up at http://pentagonpapers.com/volumes/1.html that a) some people want to read and b) some people want to keep you from reading.
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Http-https transitions and relative URLs
When building a web site with HTTPS pages, one of the annoying tasks is to ensure that those pages make no references to HTTP resources. If they do, then Internet Explorer will pop up alarming messages about mixing secure and insecure content, and do you want to display the insecure content.
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Android security model is inadequate, and it needs a firewall
I have an Android phone, and while it’s good that Android does have some sandboxing, permissions and security against rogue apps, I’m not very happy with the security model and how it a…
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Firesheep, a day later
Most importantly, I certainly never expected there would be this much attention all at once, and within the first 24 hours.
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Say goodbye to resource-caching across sites and domains
A look-back at caching strategies from the past; with recent changes in Chrome's and Safari's caching strategies, there is no caching benefit from using publicly available third-party libraries anymore.
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Why HTTP?
The world doesn’t need another arbitrary binary protocol. Just use HTTP. Your life will be simpler. Originally this came up when scaling a gaggle of MySQL machines. I would have killed for a reliable proxy. It’s with this in mind that I’ve come up with my list of things that HTTP has that an arbitrary protocol will…
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Internet Mail 2000
The sender's ISP, rather than the receiver's ISP, is the always-online post office from which the receiver picks up the message.
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How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle.
The Digital Imprimatur
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How to run a Linux based home web server
Sometimes you need complete control over the server, and don't want to pay $20 to $40 a month for a VPS. In this article, I'll describe step by step how to set up a home web server using Ubuntu, capable of handling modest spikes in traffic.
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Why GPSes suck, and what to do about it
I’m the lead of the GPSD project , a service daemon that monitors GPS receivers on serial or USB ports and provides TPV (time-position-velocity) reports in a simple format on on a well-known Internet port. GPSD makes this job looks easy. But it’s not — oh, it’s decidedly not — and thereby hangs an entertaining tale of…
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HTTP Conversation Codes
I mapped HTTP status codes to workplace conversation snippets. "404: I have no idea what you're talking about." "502: Bob is refusing to work with me on this." Now available as a poster. Note how the spec reveals programmers always blame the client.
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DNSSEC Downtime: List of Outages & Validation Failures
Major DNSSEC Outages and Validation Failures
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Comcast caught hijacking web traffic
On November 20th, 2012 Comcast hijacked my HTTP traffic and re-routed it through their own servers, injecting a “notice” on the page before completing the request. What this means is instead of my web request being routed to the website I wanted to visit, Comcast took it upon themselves to hijack my web…
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Network Link Conditioner
App developers often forget to test how their apps perform under less-than-ideal networking environments. Learn how you can use the Network Link conditioner to simulate a spotty Internet connection on your device.
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My Experience With the Great Firewall of China
When I recently visited China for the first time,as an InfoSec professional I was very curious to finally be able to poke at theGreatFirewall of China with m...
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Blocking-resistant communication through domain fronting
David Fifield, University of California, Berkeley Chang Lan, University of California, Berkeley Rod Hynes, Psiphon Inc Percy Wegmann, Brave New Software Vern Paxson, University of California, Berkeley and the International Computer Science Institute