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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…
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. ...
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…
On the 16th January 2023 we will shut down our legacy public DNS service, currently reachable from this IP: 193.138.218.74
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…
This section is an introduction to TCP/IP programming using a sockets API. (Sockets can also be used to work with other network protocols, such as IPX/SPX and Appletalk, but that is beyond the scope of this document.) The standard socket API was originally developed in the Unix world, but has been ported to OS/400 as…
Like most people, we at EFF are horrified by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Also like most people, we are not experts on military strategy or international diplomacy. But we do have some expertise with the internet and civil liberties, which is why we are deeply concerned that governments around the...
A field guide to VPNs, proxies, and traffic relaying
Elon Musk laid off about half of Twitter this morning. There are many terrible stories emerging about how this went down, but one that particularly struck me was that he …
After about a decade of dealing with this madness, surely it's been worthwhile? No, not really.
New APIs, capabilities, bugs, and challenges for Safari and PWAs running in iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4, including Web Push Notifications, WebXR
We're so excited to announce that Video Rooms is entering beta in Element, just as a new Room Search is exiting beta!
Google has recently fixed a bug in Chrome with a big implication for the video streaming industry: Support for adaptive streaming of HEVC / H.265 video content.
There are a bunch of reasons to launch an onion site, and a bunch of benefits, all of which have provided value to platforms such as Facebook, the BBC or NYT Onions. The first benefits are authenti…
It's the first of the new year, which means we ought to do something momentous to mark the occasion, like a short piece about telephones. Why so much on telephones lately? I think I'm just a little burned out on software at the moment and I need a vacation before I'm excited to write about failed Microsoft ventures…
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Netskope (AS55256) has added 1x100G, bringing their capacity to a total of 2x100G and 1x100G. They are connected to the route servers.
The Internet is easily censored. The neo-liberal's got their arses kicked. The big players like Google/Apple/AWS are partly to blame. China runs the GFI.
Apple’s Private Relay (Beta) feature calls home to Apple servers without respecting the firewall rules of the system, creating a leak that neither we, nor you, can stop without disabling the entire Private Relay feature.
bunny.net introduces Bunny DNS, a scriptable DNS platform designed to simplify complex routing challenges and enhance internet performance. Offering powerful features like real-time scripting, integrated CDN, and privacy-first design, Bunny DNS is now available for early preview.
The fediverse is dealing with a huge wave of Twitter people bringing toxic ideas with them.
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
Privileged ports were a security feature in the days of dumb terminals, in the age of the World Wide Web, they are a security vulnerability.
Use this article learn how to decide who to trust when it comes to your tailnet’s coordination server and how nodes are added to your tailnet.
