Did you know many free VPN apps are owned by Chinese companies with weak privacy policies? Jim Troutman explains why you should avoid them and how to choose a safer option.

The meme wars are over. We have a winner.

Saw this in a private chat and ranted before I knew it was on here. Figured others might appreciate it here so...🧵

show your support with an Associate badge! In the past, this badge let you stay & not queue for the next talk. Our venue size won’t allow us to do that this year. Instead it is half price, glows in the dark & you get a cool sticker. Available at BSides Las Vegas merch table for $20.

I look at the technology of miniature lethal munitions and what we know about the Hezbollah pager bomb attacks for @forbes forbes.com/sites/davidham…

Open CDNs are moving to the ISP customer edge! Today Comcast & Qwilt partnered to deploy open-standards CDNs. This is a natural evolution of CDNs from regional datacenters to the consumer edge. Exciting! #EdgeCompute #EdgeStorage #OpenCDN #SVTA #Qwilt #OpenCaching #IETF #CDNI

I will be at the POLAR in Quebec City this week, and honored to be on a panel discussion with Ian and 𝕂𝕒𝕪𝕝𝕒 ✩, moderated by Kendra Cooley. I expect to be representing the curmudgeon viewpoint, like @MrJeffMan (he/him) #WalkswithUnicorns would want me to.

So Every 📧 asked me to write about top level internet domain shenanigans. Come for the story of how a bunch of Slovenian academics stole the .yu domain. Stay for why the entire .io TLD might disappear due to a minor treaty between Britain and Mauritius. buff.ly/3zTcZyt

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One day we are going to wake up, after years of the consistent and pernicious pollution of critical information ecosystems, and deeply regret this era of thoughtless LLM deployment. A devastating loss of accuracy, clarity and conciseness -- for what?

Great post by Doug Madory (also on Bluesky) on a route leak by Uzbekistan’s state-owned provider. This great opportunity to share of our work identifying state-owned ISPs worldwide. Our work is key to understand the role of state-owned networks in routing security Link below 👇

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Quick PSA: Someone is attacking Tor right now and has been for a few weeks. The attacker is spoofing the IPs of Tor Exit and Directory nodes, and blasting TCP SYN packets indiscriminately on 22/TCP- spurring a large amount of abuse complaints to hosting providers, which are

On Monday I am going to a big conference in a red state. Many of my colleagues dropped out at the last minute because they are not legally permitted to use restrooms in that state. Think about that for a minute. We are not doing OK as a country.

Trust me when I say this book will come in handy. Chapter 1 is titled "Resist."

TikTok is now region locking Americans from looking up things like "fascism" and "Donald Trump rigged election" on the left are results from a device in America, and on the right are results from one in the UK.

Today, ICE carried out an unconstitutional raid in Newark, detaining lawful U.S. citizens, including a veteran who served our country, without a warrant. This is a flagrant violation of New Jersey's laws, our residents' rights, and the Constitution. Full statement below: