Intriguing proposal presented at yesterday’s IDR working group meeting at #ietf118, a foundation for forwarding commitment BGP. Bold aspirations to provide an incrementally beneficial approach to path verification ietf.org/id/draft-wang-… #fcbgp

Pretty sure I used to be able to solve world hunger on the train home when I had a Blackberry with keyboard. Today’s youngsters may not remember, but with the aid of fülöpke’s innovative MacGyver effort they too can enjoy limitless levels of productivity from their smartphones!

I wonder just how many of us owe the curse and blessing of a career in computer technology thanks to the insight, forethought and patience of loving parents? Only hoping that I can guide my children in the same way. May your Babbage rest in peace, Aaron! Aaron A. Glenn

CVE-2024-6387 innocent log/debug slipped into a signal handler yields RCE @Qualys, with some inspiringly devious techniques on fine-tuning their race exploit with network timing analysis! Bonus points too I think for coining the verb, to malloc()ate! qualys.com/2024/07/01/cve…

Flew with the family on British Airways BA856 back to Prague this evening and was given a great reminder of how the human touch can so positively benefit customer service. Tracey, Gail and team made us feel welcome and special and are an asset to the airline

Anyone flirting with the challenge on deploying code for multiple platforms would do well to study the efforts of Justine Tunney on APE and Cosmo: bending ancient rules of executable format to produce fat binaries that can execute anywhere (thank you stmuk 👾). But the bit I

Seminal Geoff Huston pouring oil onto an already incendiary IPv6 working group at RIPE89, calling their beloved datagram protocol “a 1980s addressing architecture,” (with worse hair!) from the safety of his remote video. Session-based NAT firewalls being set alight and thrown

Nice Christmas trip home to visit family brought to an abrupt end when British Airways lost luggage LHR-PRG and I am reminded of the continuing fascination with no-contact customer services that big business still seems to have. Exception time is absolutely when you win and

Me, sudo'ing with my Yubikey

If you’re doing anything with Juniper XML using Rust and quick_xml (reasonably common an performant XML decoder and deserialiser), it could be useful to know that since 0.38 it is now preserving the leading and trailing whitespace. This can be quite significant interacting with