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A transport protocol's view of Starlink
Digital communications systems always represent a collection of design trade-offs. Maximising one characteristic of a system may impair others, and various communications services may chose to optimise different performance parameters based on the intersection these design decisions with the physical characteristics…
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The Internet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2004)
The Internet Slum
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I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled)
Today's video is about Starlink—I've had an active subscription since last February, and as it's been a year, I figured I should post an update. The tl;dr: when I had a new roof put on late last summer, I took down 'Dishy McFlatface', but I haven't put the dish back up. I have been holding out hope I could transfer my…
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Cloudflare Calls
We are announcing Cloudflare Calls, a new product that lets developers build real-time audio and video apps
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Lying to TCP makes it a best-effort streaming protocol
In this All Things Linguistic post Gretchen and Lauren introduce a model dialogue:
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Bluesky Protocol Services
A new home for the infrastructure Bluesky runs on the open network — including Jetstream v2 with network replay, a new Jetstream SDK, and a lex-based TypeScript SDK
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Nebula, Slack's Open Source Global Overlay Network
“What is the easiest way to securely connect tens of thousands of computers, hosted at multiple cloud service providers in dozens of locations around the globe?” If you want our answer, it’s Nebula, but I recommend that you read the rest of this short post before clicking that shiny link. At Slack, we asked ourselves…
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New Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception
The practice of HTTPS interception continues to be commonplace on the Internet. This blog post discusses types of monster-in-the-middle devices and software, and how to detect them.
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Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown
Technical report on Android VPN lockdown bypass via NAT-T keepalive offload.
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The Unexpected Importance of the Trailing Slash
For many using Unix-derived systems today, we take for granted that /some/path and /some/path/ are the same. Most shells will even add a trailing slash for you when you press the Tab key after the name of a directory or a symbolic link to one.
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Taking FOSDEM online via Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Binary SMS – The old backdoor to your new thing
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A brief history of router architecture
Here's what we've learnt about networks and the routers that interconnect them in the last 50 years.
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Who's Attacking My Server?
One of the unexpected 1 outcomes of the Russian invasion in Ukraine is a large increase in nefarious access attempts to servers under my control, not necessarily appearing to arise from Russian IP addresses. There are the usual attempts at brute-forcing SSH access, for instance, but also a flurry of malevolent HTTP(S)…
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Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available
Tailscale SSH is now generally available, offering seamless SSH authentication and authorization with SSO, MFA, and ACLs. Enjoy robust security, zero trust remote access, and tools like session recording and VS Code integration.
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Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
Distributed database performance––both latency and uptime––can be dramatically improved with CDN-like multi-region deployments.
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RIPE meetings: IP addresses as spoils of war
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Conduit Beta – Matrix chat server
Conduit is a simple, fast and reliable chat server powered by Matrix. Conduit is an alternative to Synapse and tries to be lightweight and easy to install, but it is still in development.
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Google Public DNS's approach to fight against cache poisoning attacks
Tianhao Chi and Puneet Sood, Google Public DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) is a fundamental protocol used on the Internet to translate hum...
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Exploiting DNS response parsing on the Wii U
It's annual Wii U exploit time! 😄 Image of the Wii U connection test screen on the GamePad. After reverse engineering parts of the Wii Us' ...
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Randomize your WiFi MAC address on Ubuntu
Your device’s MAC address can be used to track you across the WiFi networks you connect to. That data can be shared and sold, and often identifies you as an individual. It’s possible to limit this tracking by using pseudo-random MAC addresses.
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DNS Wars
NANOG is now quite an institution in the Internet, particularly in the North American Internet community. It was an offshoot of the Regional Techs meetings, which were part of the NSFNET framework of the late 80s and early 90s. NANOG has thrived since then and is certainly one of the major network operational forums…
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Off-path TCP hijacking in NAT-enabled Wi-Fi networks
Guest Post: New off-path TCP hijacking attack in Wi-Fi networks that exploits vulnerabilities in the NAT mapping strategies of routers discovered.
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Introducing OpenCellular: An open source wireless access platform
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