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VPN over SSH? The Socks Proxy
Some resources on the internet might be only accessible from clients with particular IP addresses. For example, suppose you want to…
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 3,019 posts.
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Spoofing DNS records by abusing DHCP DNS dynamic updates
Akamai researchers discovered a new set of attacks against Active Directory (AD) using Microsoft DHCP servers that can lead to full AD takeover.
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World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite
Faster, more secure connections from space could one day make broadband on planes, ships and even remote roads as easy as turning on a light. The European Space Agency (ESA), Airbus Defence and Space, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and German payload manufacturer TESAT (as…
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Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
How we achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load.
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What’s new in HAProxy 1.6
13th of October 2015, Willy Terrau announced the release of HAProxy 1.6.0, after 16 months of development. A total of 1156 commits from 59 people were committed.
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Proton announces release of a new VPN protocol, "Stealth"
Stealth is a new VPN protocol from Proton VPN that overcomes censorship in restrictive countries.
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Change your MAC address with a shell script (2019)
Sometimes I'm at a coffee shop and get locked out of the wifi, after an hour or two has passed. Rather than spending 2 minutes/week entering terminal commands, I thought it made sense to spend a few hours figuring out how to make it take one minute a week, instead, via AUTOMATION
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Does Zoom use end-to-end encryption?
TL;DR: It’s complicated. Yesterday Zoom (the videoconferencing company, not the defunct telecom) put out a clarification post describing their encryption practices. This is a nice example of …
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What would a EvE online Internet look like?
EvE online is a fascinating game. It’s one of the few MMO’s that only have a single “server” to log into, meaning everyone is playing on the same logical world. It’s also had a fascinating set of events that have happened inside it, and also remains a very visually appealing game for what it is:
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The Maturing of QUIC
QUIC, the new internet transport protocol set to replace TCP, was comprehensively built by tech industry leaders over nearly seven years. Go behind the scenes to see how QUIC evolved from a lofty experiment to a standard set to modernize the internet.
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Are We Watching the Internet Die?
Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual
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Windows will improve user privacy with DNS over HTTPS
Announcing and explaining our intention to support DNS over HTTPS in future versions of Windows
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SSH has no Host header
A dive into how we share IPs between VMs while making SSH work.
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MPEG: A crisis, the causes and a solution
Why this post? Because there are rumours spreading about a presumed “MPEG-Video collapse” and Brownian motion-like initiatives trying to remedy – in some cases by the very people who have contributed to creating the “crisis”. Who is the author of this post? Leonardo Chiariglione, the founder and chairman of MPEG, but…
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VPN by Google One security assessment
Cutting-edge cyber security research from NCC Group. Find public reports, technical advisories, analyses, & other novel insights from our global experts.
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Telegram Voice Chats
Today, Telegram groups get an entire new dimension with Voice Chats – persistent conference calls that members can join and leave as they please. Our 12th update in 2020 brings them to you just in time for remote Christmas carols.
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Firewall rules: not as secure as you think
A post outlining tricks for firewall privilege escalation
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Introducing Project Loon: Balloon-powered Internet access
Today we’re unveiling our latest moonshot from Google[x].
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Africa's Worst New Internet Censorship Law Could Be Coming to South Africa
Only once in a while does an Internet censorship law or regulation come along that is so audacious in its scope, so misguided in its premises, and so poorly thought out in its execution, that you have to check your calendar to make sure April 1 hasn't come around again. The Draft Online Regulation...
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Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (2012)
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
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DuckDuckGo included in Opera
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
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Ford EV Customers to Gain Access to 12,000 Tesla Superchargers
The official home for stories from Ford. Get the latest news, in-depth vehicle features, media site information, and meet the people and ideas driving our company forward.