Networking Stories for 2013

Parents' Campaign Leads To Wi-Fi Ban In New Zealand School 294
Have a Privacy-Invasion Wishlist? Peruse NSA's Top Secret Catalog 259
US Internet Service In 2014: Net Neutrality Challenges and High-Speed Build-Outs 73
U.S. Mobile Internet Traffic Nearly Doubled This Year 71
Ask Slashdot: Can Commercial Hardware Routers Be Trusted? 213
Ask Slashdot: Managing Device-Upgrade Bandwidth Use? 159
Inside the Massive 2014 Winter Olympics WiFi Network 107
Graphene-based Nanoantennas Could Allow WLANs of Nanodevices 45
Some Londoners Cut Off As Failed Copper Thieves Take Fiber 184
ITU Standardizes 1Gbps Over Copper, But Services Won't Come Until 2015 153
New Baltic Data Cable Plan Unfolding 65
Google Fiber In Austin Hits a Snag: Incumbent AT&T 291
Australia's $44B Broadband Network May Settle For Fiber Near the Home 229
Barcelona Will Be a Big Test For HotSpot 2.0 Wi-Fi Connections 18
Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Beautiful Network Cable Trays? 250
How Microwave Transmission Is Linking Financial Centers At Near-Light Speed 236
Route-Injection Attacks Detouring Internet Traffic 85
How the NSA Is Harming America's Economy 330
HTTP 2.0 May Be SSL-Only 320
Legislation Would Prohibit ISPs From Throttling Online Video Services 222
Linux Kernel Running In JavaScript Emulator With Graphics and Network Support 177
British Operator EE Offers £8 Million Petabyte 4G Data Bundle 53
Taking Google's QUIC For a Test Drive 141
High-Gain Patch Antennas Boost Wi-Fi Capacity In Crowded Lecture Halls 104
Chinese Professor Builds Li-Fi System With Retail Parts 155
Ask Slashdot: Simple Backups To a Neighbor? 285
Ask Slashdot: Which Encrypted Cloud Storage Provider? 200
Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound 245
NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters 394
The Internet Archive Switches To HTTPS Connections By Default 40
First New Top-Level Domains Added To the Root Zone 106
Automakers Struggle With Pairing Smartphones To Car Infotainment Systems 187
Google Wants To Help You Tiptoe Around the NSA & the Great Firewall of China 140
A Live Map of Ongoing DDoS Attacks 46
BT To Test Huawei 1Gbps Broadband Over Copper 77
Open Rights Group International Says Virgin, Sky Blocking Innocent Sites 83
Your Next Network Operating System Is Linux 192
NFTables To Replace iptables In the Linux Kernel 235
Huawei Using NSA Scandal To Turn Tables On Accusations of Spying 183
Wireshark Switches To Qt 79
Ethernet's 400-Gigabit Challenge Is a Good Problem To Have 75
German Scientists Achieve Record 100Gbps Via Wireless Data Link 67
Google Fiber Partially Reverses Server Ban 169
Unifying Undersea Wireless Communication Using TCP/IP 68
Want To Hijack a Domain? Just Get a Fax Machine 162
802.11ac 'Gigabit Wi-Fi' Starts To Show Potential, Limits 101
Police Demand Summary Domain Takedown, Traffic Redirection 251
No FiOS In Boston? We'll Make an Ad Anyway 202
Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Project For a Router/Wi-Fi Access Point? 193
Facebook and Cisco Offer Check-In Service For Free Wifi 67
Dead Drops P2P File Sharing Spreads Around Globe 174
Another 100 Gigabit DDoS Attack Strikes — This Time Unreflected 93
The Next Big Fiber Showdown: Austin 230
Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly 452
Trans-Pacific Cable Plans Mired In US-China Geopolitical Rivalry 162
Never Underestimate the Bandwidth of a Suburban Filled With MicroSD Cards 208
A Little-Heralded New iOS 7 Feature: Multipath TCP 172
How Africa Will 'Leapfrog' Wired Networks 183
353,436 Exposed ZTE Devices Found In Net Census 29
Tor Usage More Than Doubles In August 186
Sources Say Amazon Testing Its Own Wireless Networking Service 23
Ask Slashdot: 4G Networking Advice For Large Outdoor Festival? 140
NASA Testing Frickin' Laser Communications 108
Ask Slashdot: How To Diagnose Traffic Throttling and Work Around It? 251
A New Spate of Deaths In the Wireless Industry 247
Datacenter Gives Internet To 70 Percent of Navajo Nation 162
MS Researchers Develop Acoustic Data Transfer System For Phones 180
EFF Slams Google Fiber For Banning Servers On Its Network 301
Bad Connections Dog Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi Network 144
Extraneous Network Services Leave Home Routers Unsecure 63
ByteLight Unveils NFC Alternative Called Light Field Communication 75
Google Replaces AT&T At Starbucks 100
Congress Wants FCC To Auction TV White Spaces 127
Why the Internet Needs Cognitive Protocols 156
Sprint May Have Unlimited Data Plans, But Not Unlimited Customers 207
DoJ Alleges Cisco Reseller Made $37 Million Selling Counterfeit Equipment 74
Supercomputer Becomes Massive Router For Global Radio Telescope 60
Intel Announces Avoton Server Architecture and Software Defined Services Effort 41
Cisco To Acquire Sourcefire For $2.7 Billion 38
MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast 250
Small Town Builds Its Own Gigabyte Network; Cost To Citizens $57/month 269
Comcast May Put Wi-Fi Transceivers On Cars, Buses, Humans 85
Bell Labs Break Record With 31Tbps Via a Single 7200km Optical Fibre 125
If a Network Is Broken, Break It More 124
Generic TLDs Threaten Name Collisions and Information Leakage 115
Ask Slashdot: Enterprise Level Network Devices For Home Use? 241
Japan and EU Commit 18m Euro To Develop 100Gbps Internet Access 69
Alcatel-Lucent Gives DSL Networks a Gigabit Boost 120
ICANN Set To Broaden World of Domain Names 41
Black Hat Talks To Outline Attacks On Home Automation Systems 79
Chinese Media Calls For Boycott of Cisco 216
Google Fiber Adds 14th City: Lee's Summit 81
Citrix Founder and Key OS/2 Player Ed Iacobucci Dead At 59 98
Cumulus Releases GNU/Linux For Datacenter Routers 67
Verizon Accused of Intentionally Slowing Netflix Video Streaming 202
ITIF Senior Fellow Claims "America's Broadband Networks Lead the World" 298
Google Floats Balloons For Free Wi-Fi 115
Onion Pi — Make a Raspberry Pi Into a Anonymizing Tor Proxy 76
802.11ac: Better Coverage, But Won't Hit Advertised Speeds 107
UK ISPs Secretly Start Blocking Torrent Site Proxies 82
Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Tracking Fiber Optic Networks? 75
Ask Slashdot: How Best To Disconnect Remote Network Access? 284
10GbE: What the Heck Took So Long? 295
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Old Copper Pair Technology? 347
Switzerland Tops IPv6 Adoption Charts; US Lags At 4th 155
Slashdot Killed My Kickstarter Campaign 163
Ask Slashdot: Safe Learning Environment For VMs? 212
Google Plans Wireless Networks In Emerging Markets 43
FiOS User Finds Limit of 'Unlimited' Data Plan: 77 TB/Month 573
Sears Is Turning Shuttered Stores Into Data Centers 137
Ethernet Turns 40 159
Ask Slashdot: Wiring Home Furniture? 235
RPiCluster: Another Raspberry Pi Cluster, With Neat Tricks 79
Crowdsourced Network Planning For Connection-Bridging Startup 58
9th Grade Science Experiment: Garden Cress Won't Germinate Near Routers 327
Amtrak Upgrades Wi-Fi 164
A Peek At Google's Software-Defined Network 75
Researchers Are Developing Ad Hoc Networks For Car-To-Car Data Exchange 126
Syria Falls Off the Internet Again 68
CenturyLink's Nationwide Outage Affects Millions 105
BT Begins Customer Tests of Carrier Grade NAT 338
In Sandy-Struck NJ Town, Verizon Goes All Wireless, No Copper 155
DARPA Wants Huge Holy Grail of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks 61
Inventor of OpenFlow SDN Admits Most SDN Today Is Hype 62
vTel Deploying Gigabit Internet In Vermont At $35/Month 146
Lawrence, KS To Get Gigabit Fiber — But Not From Google 83
Unanimous: Provo Utah Council Approves Google Fiber 130
Facebook Revealed As Behind $1.5B "Catapult" Data Center In Iowa 82
Google Fiber To Come To Provo, Utah 92
Vint Cerf: SDN Is a Model For a Better Internet 69
Sony Launches Internet Service Offering Twice the Speed of Google Fiber 268
Google Fiber: Why Traditional ISPs Are Officially On Notice 408
How Google Fiber Could Do Some National Good, Or At Least Scare the Carriers 163
European Researchers Propose Quantum Network Between Earth and ISS 209
Google Fiber's Austin, Texas Rollout Confirmed 128
Vendors Combine To Standardize Virtual Networking With OpenDayLight 17
German Scientists' Visible Light Network Hits 3Gbps 79
IEEE Launches 400G Ethernet Standards Process 94
Misconfigured Open DNS Resolvers Key To Massive DDoS Attacks 179
Air Force Looking To Beef Up Spacecraft Network Security 31
North Korea Halts 3G Internet Access After One Month 63
Google Tests White Space Spectrum For School Broadband In South Africa 33
A 50 Gbps Connection With Multipath TCP 150
Google Implements DNSSEC Validation For Public DNS 101
3G and 4G USB Modems Are Security Threat, Black Hat Presenter Says 50
Backdoor Found In TP-Link Routers 197
Hacker Skips SimCity Full-Time Network Requirement 303
Contiki Turns Ten 28
Computer History Museum Wants to Preserve Minitel History 58
'Bandwidth Divide' Could Bar Some From Free Online Courses 222
Cisco Looking To Make Things Right With West Virginia 182
Shorter '.uk' Domain Name Put On Ice 110
Home Server On IPv6-only Internet Connection? 164
West Virgnia Auditor Finds Cisco Router Purchase Not Performed Legally 280
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? 884
Drones Still Face Major Hurdles In US Airspace 166
Connecting Android Phones Without Carrier Networks 102
Home Server Or VPS? One Family's Math 380
Open Spectrum Does Not Mean Free Internet 60
Thumb On the Scale? Study Finds 5 of 7 Broadband Meters Inaccurate 114
Intel Gigabit NIC Packet of Death 137
Firefox and Chrome Can Talk To Each Other 121
FCC Proposal Would Cover the US With Public Wi-Fi 299
How the Super Bowl Will Reach US Submarines 142
Making Wireless Carriers Play Together 58
UK Researchers Build Micron LED Light Based Wireless Network 70
Hacker Faces 105 Years In Prison After Blackmailing 350+ Women 473
Google Now Boasts World's No. 2 and No. 3 Social Networks 150
BitTorrent Launches Dropbox Alternative 96
German Federal Court Rules That Internet Connection Is Crucial To Everyday Life 110
Cisco Exits the Consumer Market, Sells Linksys To Belkin 284
Barracuda Appliances Have Exploitable Holes, Fixed By Firmware Updates 88
UK ISPs Respond To the Dangers of Using Carrier Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 165
Cuba Turns On Submarine Internet Cable 132
Wikimedia Moving Main Data Center To Ashburn, Virginia 59
A Chat With USENIX Community Manager Rikki Endsley (Video) 40
Remote Linksys 0-Day Root Exploit Uncovered 133
All New Homes In China Must Have Fiber Optic Internet Connections 202
Timothy Lord Discovers the Good Night Lamp at CES (Video) 236
Google Wiring New York City's Chelsea For Free Wi-Fi 67
US Military Signs Modernization Deal With Microsoft 228
Worldwide IPv6 Adoption: Where Do We Stand Today? 327
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deploy Small Office Wi-Fi SSIDs? 172