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Gravitational Wormhole: WireGuard for Kubernetes
Announcing Teleport Wormhole, a new open source Kubernetes network plugin that combines the simplicity of flannel with encrypted networking from WireGuard.
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 201 posts.
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RFC8482 – Saying Goodbye to ANY
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to welcome the new shiny RFC8482, which effectively deprecates DNS ANY query type. DNS ANY was a "meta-query" - think about it as a similar thing to the common A, AAAA, MX or SRV query types, but unlike these it wasn't a real query type - it was special.
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The sorry state of OpenSSL usability (2017)
OpenSSL's inadequate documentation, confusing key formats, and deprecated interfaces make it difficult to use, despite its importance.
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Improved VPC Networking for AWS Lambda
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Update – August 5, 2020: We have fully rolled out the changes to the following additional Regions to those mentioned below. These improvements are now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by…
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Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew
Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Iraq has introduced a nighttime internet curfew, consistent with reports from IT industry workers in recent days. Confirmed: #Iraq has partly ...
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What are the differences between OpenBSD and Linux?
Maybe you have been reading recently about the release of OpenBSD 6.5 and wonder, 'What are the differences between Linux and OpenBSD?' I've also been there at some point in the past and these are my conclusions. They also apply, to some extent,
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Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol
What’s an agreement system? What makes one “Byzantine”? What makes a Byzantine one “federated”?
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I revoked $1M worth of EV certificates
Personal like or dislike of EV aside for a moment, we can all agree on what the name of EV certs implies. Organisations get their company details in the certificate and CAs have to do some extended validation of that data compared to a normal certificate. Turns out, that doesn'
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Strength in Numbers: An Entire Ecosystem Relies on Tor
If the Tor Project, the Tor network, and Tor Browser were to disappear, what would happen? Not only would millions of global, daily users lose access to Tor’s software, but the diverse ecosystem of privacy, security, and anti-censorship applications that rely on the Tor network would cease to function.
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Investigating the Galileo Satellite Navigation System Outage with a LimeSDR
You may have already heard that the Galileo EU satellite navigation constellation is out of service since last Thursday July 11th. Currently the Galileo constellation status page shows that the status of most Galileo satellites is not usable because of a service outage. The satellites not affected by this outage are…
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China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables
Supply chain security is an insurmountably hard problem. The recent focus is on Chinese 5G equipment, but the problem is much broader. This opinion piece looks at undersea communications cables: But now the Chinese conglomerate Huawei Technologies, the leading firm working to deliver 5G telephony networks globally…
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No, that dot in the domain name of the URL is not a mistake (2004)
You've come to this page because you've asked a question similar to the following:
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Happy Birthday, XMPP: 20th Anniversary of Jabber
Explore and join the Movim network
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NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver
NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver Program Committing to Data Retention and Transparency Requirements that Respect User Privacy Firefox a
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Mastodon 2.7: Highlights from the changelog
In this release: New profile directory, new tutorial, new public hashtag pages and more moderation tools
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Public DNS in Taiwan the Latest Victim of BGP Hijack
Guest Post: Traffic going through a public DNS in Taiwan was rerouted to an entity in Brazil for about three and a half minutes.
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On the Road to WebRTC 1.0, Including VP8
Safari 11 was the first Safari version to support WebRTC.
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Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System
Starting since version 1.30, the Mac, Linux, and Windows Private Internet Access (PIA) desktop clients have come with the ability to change the selected
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Curryfinger – Find the Server Behind the CDN
CURRYFINGER quickly and effectively identifies the real hosts behind CDN networks like CloudFlare - and outperforms existing tools. Find out how to use it.
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DNS-over-HTTPS Policy Requirements for Resolvers
Over the past few months, we’ve been experimenting with DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), a protocol which uses encryption to protect DNS requests and responses, with the goal of deploying DoH by default ...
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What’s Next in Making Encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS the Default
More than 70,000 users have already chosen on their own to explicitly enable DoH in Firefox Release edition. We are close to releasing DoH in the USA, and we have a few updates to share.
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Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time AV1 Codec
Webex is rolling out the AV1 video codec into production early next year, bringing our media quality to the next level.
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