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By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation
When I first arrived at MIT in 2010, I was awed by how much computing infrastructure was readily available. Dorm rooms had 100 megabit inter...
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 3,019 posts.
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Facebook building subsea cable that will encompass the world
Facebook building subsea cable that will span the globe. Biggest project ever.
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Freenode commits suicide, is no longer a serious IRC network
Since this happened after I was banned from Freenode , I didn't get to observe this first hand, but this is the situation as I now understand it.
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Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It
Gnutella Explanation
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RCE over ham radio – Reverse shell via WinAPRS memory corruption bug
This installment will review and demonstrate functional exploits for WinAPRS on both Windows XP SP3 and Windows 10.
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The State of HTTP in 2022
So what happened at all of those working group meetings, specification documents, and side events in 2022? What are implementers and deployers of the web’s protocol doing? And what’s coming next?
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Diagnosing an Unusual WiFi Issue (2020)
Late last year, I started experiencing some unusual intermittent connection issues on my Desktop. In general, I had a stable connection with average latency; however, at (seemingly) random times throughout the week, I would start experiencing sudden 2000ms+ latency spikes every couple of seconds.
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Container networking is simple (2020)
Begin with the basics to understand Docker and Kubernetes networking: learn how to create and interconnect Linux network namespaces using only command-line tools.
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Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage
Today CenturyLink/Level(3), a major ISP and Internet bandwidth provider, experienced a significant outage that impacted some of Cloudflare’s customers as well as a significant number of other services and providers across the Internet.
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Tailscale doesn't want your password
Tailscale ditches passwords for passkeys, offering a secure, phishing-resistant, and convenient way to authenticate. Learn how passkeys work, why they’re better than passwords, and how to set them up on your tailnet.
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Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging
A privacy-friendly messaging app for the desktop. It uses the XMPP protocol and provides a clean UI with modern features.
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Tracking One Year of Malicious Tor Exit Relay Activities (Part II)
>25% of the Tor network’s exit capacity has been attacking Tor users
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Libtorrent adds support for the WebTorrent protocol
Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer security researcher, teacher, web developer, designer, long distance runner, gamer, music lover, and builder of websites that (sometimes) go viral.
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Dutch parliament rejects ACTA, prohibits government to sign or ratify.
On 29 May 2012, a majority of the Dutch parliament voted for three resolutions in the fight against ACTA. In short, the parliament requested the Dutch government to make the final decision to not sign or ratify ACTA (resolutions 1 and 2 below) and not to sign any new treaties similar to ACTA and to
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Clankers Die on Christmas
I’m sorry, but I can’t help with that. We acheived AGI. The clankers died on Christmas. This post is scheduled to automatically publish: 2025-12-25. Editors note: erroneously leaked this personal commentary blog early due to typoed year. Since it's erroneous early publication, this leak has remained on the hackernews…
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My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated
Thanks HN folks for all the comments. To clarify a bit, the cables are pulled through PVC conduits under the flooring before being buried in cement. Currently the hypothesis for why the cable disintegrated so quickly is hydrolysis. Singapore is extremely humid after all. A second possibility is that I keep the…
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Self-hosting email like it's 1984
Notes from setting up a truly minimal self-hosted email server with Postfix and OpenDKIM. Covers TLS, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, DNS, reverse DNS, multiple domains, and delivering to Gmail.
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Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT
A few months after writing up the Cudy AX3000 units and moving the house over to OpenWRT, I ended up revisiting the one bit I had deliberately waved away ...
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(n+1)sec – a protocol for distributed multiparty chat encryption
Today we present (n+1)sec, a free (libre), end-to-end secure, synchronous protocol for group chat developed by eQualit.ie with support from the Open Technology Fund. After 2 years of design, development and testing, we are releasing the (n+1)sec protocol and library for securing group conversations on various…
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How and why I run my own DNS servers
Despite my woeful knowledge of networking, I run my own DNS servers on my own websites run from home.
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SSH certificates: the better SSH experience
When I ssh into a server for the first time, I’m confronted with a dialog which asks me to verify I’m actually talking to the machine I expect to be talking to. $ ssh -l jp 192.0.2.65 The authenti...
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Chromium based browsers leak user local IP via WebRTC foundation attribute
This script uses a pregenerated foundation lookup table to find local IP address for ICE candidates that render local mDNS hostnames seen as xx-xxx-xxx-xx.local .
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The Internet runs on free and open source software and so does the DNS
The ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee recently published SAC132: The Domain Name System Runs on Free and Open-Source Software.
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Wiretapping Google smart speakers
I was recently rewarded a total of $107,500 by Google for responsibly disclosing security issues in the Google Home smart speaker that allowed an attacker within wireless proximity to install a "backdoor" account on the device, enabling them to send commands to it remotely over the Internet, access its microphone…
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Internet disrupted in Kazakhstan amid energy price protests
Network data from NetBlocks confirm a significant disruption to internet service in Kazakhstan from the evening of Tuesday 4 January 2022, progressing to a nation-scale communications blackout on Wednesday afternoon. ...