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The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
BitTorrent used to dominate not just piracy, but the internet. Now, it’s barely noticed in traffic studies. What happened to the platform?
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 204 posts.
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Why ActivityPub is the future
We often tout things like “Mastodon is based on open web protocols” as one of its advantages. I want to elaborate why exactly that’s a good thing.
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Internet Vulnerability Takes Down Google
BGP route leak interrupts access to Google’s services throughout the world. Traffic rerouted via Russia and China and slammed into the great firewall.
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Everything you should know about certificates and PKI but are too afraid to ask
Certificates and public key infrastructure (PKI) are hard. No shit, right? I know a lot of smart people who''ve avoided this particular rabbit hole. Eventually, I was forced to learn this stuff because of what it enables: PKI lets you define a system cryptographically. It''s universal and vendor-neutral yet poorly…
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Announcing gRPC Support in Nginx
NGINX now proxies gRPC traffic, so you can terminate, inspect, and route gRPC method calls. Manage encryption and load balance gRPC traffic.
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SSH Examples, Tips and Tunnels
Bounce through the network with SSH tunnels and proxies. Take your remote system administration skills to the next level with our practical SSH examples.
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GoogleMeetRoulette: Joining random meetings
Finding Google Meet phone numbers and bruteforcing PINs to join random meetings
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There are real reasons for Linux to replace ifconfig, netstat, etc
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Community-Owned Fiber Networks: Value Leaders in America
Our examination of advertised prices shows that community-owned fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks in the United States generally charge less for entry-level broadband service than do competing private providers, and don’t use initial low “teaser” rates that sharply rise months later.
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Playing battleships over BGP
BGP is the glue of the internet. For a protocol that was produced on two napkins in 1989 it is both amazing and horrifying that it runs almost all of the ISP to ISP interactions and is now a very fundemental part of the internet.
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Should you use www or not in your domain? (2017)
For 20 years or so, there has been the debate over whether you should use www or not in your web site’s canonical hostname. So should you use www or not?
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Encrypted SNI Comes to Firefox Nightly
TL;DR: Firefox Nightly now supports encrypting the TLS Server Name Indication (SNI) extension, which helps prevent attackers on your network from learning your browsing history. You can enable encrypted SNI ...
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TCP Tracepoints have arrived in Linux
Linux TCP Tracepoints, and using them via bcc/eBPF.
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AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
Many organizations use SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) as part of long-established data processing and partner integration workflows. While it would be easy to dismiss these systems as “legacy,” the reality is that they serve a useful purpose and will continue to do so for quite some time. We want to help our…
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A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges
This map is now available in app form! WiFox is available on the App Store and Google Play. Finding an open wireless connection in many airports isn't always easy, or possible, without a password (or local phone number which is stupid). The difficulty of getting online is why I asked you for and created an…
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Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast
Good performance practices are still needed when developing fast web experience.
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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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Tcpdump Examples
In these tcpdump examples you will find 22 tactical commands to zero in on the key packets. Know your network with this powerful packet capture tool. Examples for http, icmp, dns, snmp and more.
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Wi-Fi alliance announces mesh networking standard
Explore our portfolio of alternative topology and architecture technologies that improve efficiency and scalability of Wi-Fi® networks.
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Technology preview: Sealed sender for Signal
In addition to the end-to-end encryption that protects every Signal message, the Signal service is designed to minimize the data that is retained about Signal users. By design, it does not store a record of your contacts, social graph, conversation list, location, user avatar, user profile name, ...
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California Introduces Its Own Bill to Protect Net Neutrality
2018 has barely begun, and so has the fight to preserve net neutrality. January 3 was the first day of business in the California state legislature, and state Sen. Scott Wiener used it to introduce legislation to protect net neutrality for Californians. As the FCC has sought to abandon its role as...
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LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware
The LibreRouter project has developed an open source, open hardware router, customized to the needs of community-run networks.
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Mail Loop From Hell (2012)
One of those awesome 90ies computer stories...