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UPDATE (3/26/11): HTTPS is again available for those in the countries discussed below. Microsoft denies deliberately blocking access to HTTPS, blaming the problem on a bug: We are aware of an issue that impacted some Hotmail users trying to enable HTTPS. That issue has now been resolved. Account...
Back in the old days, I could just type route (or, later, ip route) in my Linux terminal and get an accurate picture of all my routes. This is no longer the case.
Don’t use RFC 2616. Delete it from your hard drives, bookmarks, and burn (or responsibly recycle) any copies that are printed out.
And how to work around one kind on Mac OSX
Flutter‘s initial release occurred in 2017, the same year as the introduction of our mobile apps and mobile SDKs. For those who are unfamiliar with it, Flutter is one of the most popular frameworks for […]
One bite and all your dreams will come true - Apple. Last week at WWDC, Apple announced their usual cascade of software updates, and as has been tradition for the last 4 years, Roger Pantos took the s...
Use the interactive map below to explore the latest global regulations enabling 6 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi.
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We are facing a EU regulation which may make it impossible to install a custom piece of software on most radio decives like WiFi routers, smartphones and embedded devices. You can now give feedback on …
Over 20 thousand servers have their iLO interfaces exposed to the internet, many with outdated and vulnerable versions of FW, Author: Jan Kopriva
In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the "inconvenient truth" that structural aspects of the Internet make truly decentralized systems infeasible, due to the lack of a means to perform broadcast discovery. As a result, most distributed systems rely on a set…
About an hour ago I was contacted by the Dutch Government with more details about the DigiNotar...
Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.
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I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally
An exploration into the internet's most simple domain names
Congress is about to make critical decisions about the future of internet access and speed in the United States. It has a potentially once-in-a-lifetime amount of funding to spend on broadband infrastructure, and at the heart of this debate is the minimum speed requirement for taxpayer-funded...
Hi, great work, I was just about to get down to trying to work this out. I’d got as far noticing it was CoAP and DTLS but no further yet ( https://gist.github.com/hardillb/4ce9fc493b792806e39f7fae4b7c28a7 ). CoAP is new to me so finding out it’s somewhat self describing is really useful.
How TCP interacts with the characteristics of the Starlink service.
I never understood how traceroute discovers each hop. Turns out it's a clever TTL trick, and about 80 lines of Rust.
The short version: Tor relays and bridges should upgrade to Tor 0.2.2.33 or Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha so...
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Two findings in PureVPN on Ubuntu 24.04. After a reconnect the system takes a default IPv6 route outside the tunnel, and the ip6tables OUTPUT policy is still ACCEPT, so traffic leaves in the clear while the client reports connected.
Discover how Tailscale achieved over 10Gb/s throughput on Linux using advanced UDP segmentation and checksum optimizations. Explore benchmarks, results, and the innovations powering wireguard go's latest performance leap.
