URGENT: Please read thread below. We have just days to convince the Senate NOT to pass a “terrifying” law (Ron Wyden) that will force U.S. businesses to serve as NSA spies. CALL YOUR SENATOR NOW using this call tool (click below or call 202-899-8938). 1/25 act.demandprogress.org/call/no-on-sec…

⚠️ Adult content is being sanitized and squeezed off the internet in a way that it never has been before.

You should care, you should talk about it, you should know why it is different now and a big deal.

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cannot repost this hard enough

The (US)NUA (VT)NUG will be Wed. April 10th, 4-7PM! Doug Madory will be speaking, and we'll have free food & beverages, and an awesome panel! If you're in town for #eclipse2024 stay for the (VT)NUG! #aone #networkengineer #btv Link in comments

Africa Submarine Cable Situation Report - 14/3/24
Situation is Very bad.
East Coast of Africa to Europe
Seacom/TGN - Cut
AAE1 - Cut
EIG - Cut
All cut in Red Sea
West Coast of Africa to Europe
WACS - Fault
Mainone - Down
ACE - Fault
SAT3-Down
Faults near Abidjan

African Internet is hurting as submarine cable cuts/faults are piling up!

MainOne cable down at around 07:30 UTC earlier today.
submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cabl…

Hot take: the vast majority of orgs using Kubernetes today don't need it and its complexity is actively hurting security vs using a simpler solution the org actually understands.

I dreamed last night I had to IP renumber an entire subnet of cats. Yes, domestic house cats.

They didn’t support DHCP or IPv6. Meant reset via sequence of ear presses to access an admin interface, address selection via toe wiggles, count meows.

Yes, it was a weird dream.

trunk allowed vlan ADD

My summer may be more interesting than I thought.

#vaguetweet

During the Munich conference I was asked why I am so gloomy. Well, somebody has to tell it like it is, so here’s how it is: Things are not going well. 🧵

This is fascinating and should be on every single Blue team watch list

If you don't have playbooks to handle devices left behind in your offices, or are threat hunting physical devices - this should be a wake up call

I have found devices like these in the wild. They exist.

Network configuration analysis has always been the domain of commercial-grade software. Batfish changes all that with an open source, community-supported tool that can find errors and guarantees the correctness of planned or current network configurations. Ratul Mahajan joins Tom

Two months ago, my fully remote job of 3 years began a campaign to bring all employees back to office.

This confused me, as I was originally hired to be fully remote.

I lost that status because we recently moved into a temporary apartment while we shop for our first home.

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It would appear that AS174 (Cogent) and AS2914 (NTT) have depeered in Europe. Causing a decent latency spike between single homed customers on both sides in Europe.

This is not Cogent's first de-peering, their wikipedia page has a mostly complete list en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogent_Co…

It was a joy to spend some time with the absolutely lovely 3ncr1pt3d and Jim Troutman 💗

In response to LACNIC briefly making all of their ROAs invalid today due to a expired CRL, bgp.tools now displays the 'Time Until Expire' of each part certificate, so you can quickly see one of these incidents coming, and where it might be coming from

Big news! Yesterday, the Czech government approved a resolution that on June 6, 2032 (20 years after so called IPv6 launch day), it will end the provision of government services over IPv4. 👏 Who is gonna join us?

Internet blackout in #Gaza is now into its 7th day.

This is now the longest internet outage ever recorded for Gaza, and longer than previous recent outages combined.

An extended blackout like this compounds the trauma the people in Gaza have endured over the past 3+ months.

Repeat after me: Anything that collects data in public will eventually become an extension of the police evidence locker. The more data-collecting and retaining devices on the street, sidewalk, and buildings, the more *police* surveillance will be totalizing.