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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 3,019 posts.
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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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SSL added and removed here ;-)
This post is part of our ongoing series about networks, privacy, governments and (of course) online security tools like Cloak. Last week, the Washington Post unleashed yet another bombshell revelation from the Snowden documents.
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DNSSEC Downtime: List of Outages & Validation Failures
Major DNSSEC Outages and Validation Failures
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iCloud Private Relay: What Cloudflare Customers Need to Know
iCloud Private Relay is an Apple service for browsing more privately and securely. Learn how to ensure the best user experience using iCloud Private Relay.
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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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Cloudflare Browser Check
Secure DNS Transport using DoH (DNS over HTTPS) or DoT (DNS over TLS) and SNI with ECH
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Good-bye ESNI, hello ECH!
A deep dive into the Encrypted Client Hello, a standard that encrypts privacy-sensitive parameters sent by the client, as part of the TLS handshake.
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Build WebRTC app backend services | Articles
WebRTC enables peer-to-peer communication. It requires servers so that clients can exchange metadata and coordinate communication through a process called signaling . Servers also help clients cope with network address translators (NATs) and firewalls.
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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
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Encrypt it or lose it: how encrypted SNI works
Today we announced support for encrypted SNI, an extension to the TLS 1.3 protocol that improves privacy of Internet users.
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Net Neutrality Violations: A History of Abuse
Here's what happens when cable and phone companies are left to their own devices.
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Routing & Network Namespaces
Like all Linux network interfaces, WireGuard integrates into the network namespace infrastructure. This means an administrator can have several entirely different networking subsystems and choose which interfaces live in each.
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Introducing Zero Round Trip Time Resumption (0-RTT)
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a faster and more secure Internet. Over the last several years, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has been working on a new version of TLS, the protocol that powers the secure web.