New research could allow ISPs to selectively block or slow down your encrypted traffic even if they cannot snoop on your transmitted data. Italian researchers have found a way to categorize the type of traffic that is hidden inside an encrypted SSH session to around 90% accuracy. They are achieving this by analyzing [...]
InfoWorld’s Tom Yager offers insight on how digital TV is rapidly heading toward the kind of lockdown that entertainment and broadcast lobbies desire for the Internet. Standards such as HDMI and HDCP are acting in concert to strip your equipment of its functionality, displaying ‘incompatibility’ messages when plugged into older HDMI-enabled devices, shutting [...]
This YouTube video by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, is part of a series of videos produced by Wesch on this broad topic. It explores how the very nature of information has changed with the transition from print to digital and how we have to re-think our processes, ideas, [...]
CNet story about a discussion from Google’s Jeff Dean spotlighting some of the inner workings of the search giant’s massive data centers. Quoting: “‘Our view is it’s better to have twice as much hardware that’s not as reliable than half as much that’s more reliable,’ Dean said. ‘You have to provide reliability on [...]
Get the most from your TomTom, Garmin, Magellan, or other GPS device by learning how to speed satellite lock, send maps from your PC, create POIs, and more from our GPS expert.
[From Top 10 GPS Tips And Tricks]
Dr. Jim writes “The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years. The usual suspects including multi-core chips, virtualization, and cloud computing are on the list. Multicore servers and virtualization will mean that firms [...]
A Canadian law clinic has asked the country’s Privacy Commissioner to take a closer look at the deep packet inspection being used by Bell Canada and others. While the technology also raises net neutrality concerns, in this case the issue is privacy.
[From Deep packet inspection under assault over privacy concerns]
Deep packet inspection gets a major speed bump to 80Gbps of real-time traffic analysis with 96 percent accuracy. Even the largest networks can now throttle P2P with ease… even when it’s encrypted.
[From Throttle 5 million P2P users with $800K DPI monster]
OrochimaruVoldemort writes “In an unexpected move, Microsoft has disclosed 14,000 pages of coding secrets. According to The Register: ‘This is Microsoft’s latest effort to satisfy anti-trust concerns of the European Union, which is possibly a tougher adversary for the company than Google.’ The article mentioned that this will be done in [...]
What some users thought was their imagination turns out to be a very real problem…
[From Research Reveals Internet "Black Holes"]
AnyDVD HD now with BD+ support
In my experience, the open approach, promotes open discussion, open experimentation, open solutions, and rapid growth. If you were looking for a market where the concept of “give a little and get a lot” works, you have arrived. [From In Praise of Openness]
Obsolete Skills
An article over at TorrentFreak this week took a look at the alternatives that ISPs can consider to deal with their BitTorrent problem . The article cites a number of different suggestions that would be more customer-friendly than the currently popular ISP practice of throttling. However, the ultimate suggestion is that ISPs need [...]
Tom’s Hardware has a nice roundup of some of the new shiny hardware for February ‘08. Everything from a screaming fast 2 GHz DDR3 to liquid cooled cases and back again. “Unlike previous Zalman cases that used a heat pipe assembly, the LQ1000 has a traditional water pump and flexible hose for connecting [...]
Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Scientific Data — Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all.
Link: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/google-to…
[From Google to Host Terabytes of [...]
As the Internet grows in size and bandwidth, routers must search through larger and larger routing tables faster and faster. Not an impossible task, but probably an expensive one in the future unless we come up with a different approach to Internet routing.
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[From Internet routing shows growing pains—again]
Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008
IPv6: coming to a root server near you
Networking technology turned out to be one of the more interesting stories in 2007. [From Get ready for a rocking '08 in networking tech]
Bad Behavior has blocked 990 access attempts in the last 7 days.