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The death of a TLD
Another one bites the dust. The gTLD gold rush is now seeing a steady flow of TLD’s that clearly just didnt work out.
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 3,019 posts.
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Did 5G kill the IMSI catcher?
Understand the mechanics, risks, and the future of IMSI catching (a.k.a. stealing your cellular ID) in 2025. Read our primer on this niche form of hacking.
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HTTP/2 is here. Goodbye SPDY? Not quite yet
Today CloudFlare is introducing HTTP/2 support for all customers using SSL/TLS connections, while still supporting SPDY. There is no need to make a decision between SPDY or HTTP/2.
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Dutch radio amateurs image far side of the Moon using Chinese satellite data
This image shows the far side of the Moon, as well as our own planet Earth. It was taken with a camera linked to an amateur radio transceiver on board the Chinese DSLWP-B / Longjiang-2 satellite (call sign BJ1SN), currently in orbit around the Moon, and transmitted back to Earth where it was received with the…
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gRPC: Internet-scale RPC framework is now 1.0
Building highly scalable, loosely coupled systems has always been tough. With the proliferation of mobile and IoT devices, burgeoning data volumes and increasing customer expectations, it's critical to be able to develop and run systems efficiently and reliably at internet scale.
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Important security vulnerabilities in OpenVPN
UPDATE: OpenVPN fuzzers now released. Summary I’ve discovered 4 important security vulnerabilities in OpenVPN. Interestingly, these were not found by the two recently completed audits of Open…
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The Ethernet PAUSE frame
This is a bizarre one. It all started when the internet seemed to go out at my house. My desktop, phone, TV, everything stopped working. The usual solution at a time like this is to power cycle the modem and router. While this fixed the situation temporarily, soon after the problem returned. What made me think this…
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Practical Networked Applications in Rust, Part 1: Non-Networked Key-Value Store
The PingCAP company, makers of the TiDB NewSQL database and the TiKV key-value store, have kindly made publicly available, as well as open-sourced, a set of training courses that they call the "PingCAP Talent Plan". These courses train programmers in writing distributed systems in the Go and Rust languages. They are…
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Calling NSA to find your encryption key after a few bits were flipped (2010)
I was just alerted to this story by one of the followers of this blog… Last month Voyager 2 began returning some unusual signals. This story is being reported by alternate news outlets as s…
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Gluon, a high-performance IMAP library
Gluon is a new high-performance IMAP library that is open source, RFC compliant, and actively maintained and improved by the Proton Mail team.
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Sysadmin friendly high speed Ethernet switching
I’ve been on the lookout for a ethernet switch that I don’t hate, the problem with a lot of higher speed (10G and above) ethernet switches is that they are quite expensive new and if you buy the used then they rarely have many years left ( or none at all ) of software patches.
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Shutting down our unencrypted public DNS service
On the 16th January 2023 we will shut down our legacy public DNS service, currently reachable from this IP: 193.138.218.74
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Innernet: open source Rust based Tailscale alternative
Nurture and shape your own private networks with simple, free, open-source infrastructure
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Intercepting Zoom's encrypted data with BPF
How to use Rust and BPF to intercept the data sent and received by programs that use OpenSSL.
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The future of undersea Internet cables: Are big tech companies forming a cartel?
Guest Post: Content providers are increasingly investing in new submarine cables. Are they forming a cartel?
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MQTT: A Conceptual Deep-Dive
MQTT is a pub/sub network protocol especially built to enable efficient communication to and from Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
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460M Indian Internet Users Are Now on IPv6
NOTE : This data is generated by using the ISO 3166 economy code information provided in the allocation and assignment statistics reports as generated by the Regional Internet Registries. This code reflects the economy in which the entity to whom the allocation or assignment was made is located, but does not…
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Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google
Today, as part of our efforts to make the web faster , we are announcing Google Public DNS , a new experimental public DNS resolver. The DNS...
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Air Traffic Control
Air traffic control has been in the news lately, on account of my country's declining ability to do it. Well, that's a long-term trend, resulting from decades of under-investment, severe capture by our increasingly incompetent defense-industrial complex, no small degree of management incompetence in the FAA, and…
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MIDI 2.0, first major overhaul to music interface standard from 1983
The new standard is almost here. Will it change how producers and performers make music?
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Just one QUIC bit
A proposal to add a "spin bit" to the QUIC protocol sparked much debate at IETF 101.
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Americans don't feel they can get justice when wronged by their ISP – survey
More than 20 million U.S. households had unresolved complaints against their ISPs last year. Despite wanting justice, many didn't pursue.
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Making a Linux-managed network switch
Sometimes the custom 5-port gigabit switch _is_ the solution.
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Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD
Blog about network and security, showing example of Linux iptables and Snort configuration, and Windows security softwares.