Networking Stories for 2011

No IPv6 Doomsday In 2012 233
Passive Optical Diode Created At Purdue University 92
New WiFi Setup Flaw Allows Easy Router PIN Guessing 86
Spectrum Fragmentation Means Pricier Mobile Networking 80
DynDNS Cuts Back Free DNS Options 223
Google Deploys IPv6 For Internal Network 260
Malaysia Mulls Compulsory Registration of Tech Workers 187
Ask Slashdot: Getting a Grip On an Inherited IT Mess? 424
Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers In the Internet 124
FCC OKs On-Body Medical Networks 41
Google Researchers Propose Plan To Fix CA System 91
Does Telecommuting Make You Invisible? 275
Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process? 253
Apache Flaw Allows Internal Network Access 99
London Wires Up For 2012 Olympic Games 79
Dutch Government Officially Trusts OpenVPN-NL 53
Smart Meters Wreaking Havoc With Home Electronics 375
Nokia-Siemens Axing 17,000 Positions 87
Ask Slashdot: Updating a Difficult Campground Wi-Fi Design? 237
Potential 0-Day Vulnerability For BIND 9 187
Tor-Enabled Browser For the iPad, and Easy Tor Nodes on EC2 75
FBI Takes Out $14M DNS Malware Operation 57
Comcast Begins Native IPv6 Deployment To End Users 326
Obama To Veto Anti-Net-Neutrality Legislation 355
DARPA Seeks Input On Securing Networks Against Attackers 119
Brazilian ISPs Hit With Massive DNS Attack 85
Verizon Announces Pay-Per-Use 'Turbo Boost' For Smartphones 129
Four CAs Have Been Compromised Since June 87
Vint Cerf Answers Your Questions About IPv6 and More 150
Ask Slashdot: DD-WRT Upgrade To 802.11n? 196
IT Shops Coping With Overloaded 2.4GHz WiFi Band 165
Ask Slashdot: Which Android Phone (and Carrier) For WiFi Proxy Support? 125
Ask Internet Visionary and Pioneer Vint Cerf 109
Continuing the Distributed DNS System 77
Verizon's 'Can You Hear Me Now' Fleet Testing 4G 81
Congressmen Worried About Amazon Silk Privacy Issues 148
OccupySF IT Admins Using Pedal Power For Protest 202
NASA Game Lets You Build Complex Space Networks 47
US Blocks Huawei From Building LTE Network 156
Hackers Buying IPv4 Blocks To Evade Detection 89
BT Promises 300Mbps FTTP By 2012 121
Facebook Files For a Patent To Track Its Users On Other Sites 133
Amazon Disables 3G Web Browsing For New 3G Kindle Touch 206
Ask Slashdot: Trustworthy Proxy Services? 164
An Operating System For Cities 216
FCC Finalizes US Net Neutrality Rules 299
Alcatel-Lucent Boosts Copper Broadband To 100Mbps 129
Intel Shows RealVNC Embedded In the BIOS 154
Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? 398
Ask Slashdot: Clever Cable Management? 374
Ask Slashdot: Best Use For a New Supercomputing Cluster? 387
$300M To Save 6 Milliseconds 524
Broadcom To Buy NetLogic For $3.7 Billion 35
Ask Slashdot: Network Backup Solution Out of the Box? 251
5 Years In Prison For Selling Fake Cisco Gear 239
Why We Don't Need Gigabit Networks (Yet) 359
Ask Slashdot: P2P Liability On a Shared Connection? 346
Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal Using Only a Beer Can 229
UK To Get Whitespace Radio 71
Google and OpenDNS Work On Global Internet Speedup 151
Verizon Kills Free FTP Access 130
Another CA Issues False Certificates To Iran 229
Scientists Map Spiraling Light For Faster Net 62
Can Google Save Us From Slow Internet 240
Internet Restored In Tripoli As Rebels Take Control 271
Ask Slashdot: Best Wi-Fi Solution For a Hotel? 300
The FCC Says ISPs Aren't Hitting Advertised Speeds 228
Australian Research Network Plans For 100Gbps 24
The Biggest Dangers to Your Fiber 122
Verizon Cracks Down On Jailbreak Tethering 286
Power Companies Brace For Solar Storms 111
Comcast Launching $9.95 Low Income Broadband Plan 277
Ask Slashdot: Does SSL Validation Matter? 243
World Wide Web Turns 20 Today 169
Harnessing Interference For Faster Wireless Data 91
Microsoft Curbs Wi-Fi Location Database 69
Microsoft Exposes Locations of PCs and Phones 96
Most Enterprises Plan To Be On IPv6 By 2013 167
Is Twitter Rendered Obsolete By Google+? 456
Apple Adopts Bluetooth 4.0. Could It Reject NFC? 250
Why Any Competing Whois Registry Model Is Doomed 63
Napkins and the History of Ethernet, Compaq, Facebook 67
BBC Crowdsources 3G Coverage Map 64
Researchers Debut Proxy-Less Anonymity Service 116
Ford Demonstrates Networked Cars 115
The History of Ethernet 322
Undersea Cable Map Shows Where The Data Pipes Are 97
Ask Slashdot: Best Connect Scheme For a 2-ISP Household? 206
Build Your Own Time Capsule Work-Alike For $200 208
Patched MS Bluetooth Flaw Exposes Even Disconnected PCs 147
Court Rules "Locker" Site Is Not Direct Copyright 45
How Investigators Deciphered Stuxnet 131
Google: Orkut Will Co-Exist With Google+ 64
Ask Slashdot: Living Without Internet At-Home Access? 462
Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet 214
Why UK FM Needn't Be Killed For Broadband 108
Gov't Docs Reveal Canada's Net Neutrality Enforcement Failure 109
Could PSTN Go Away By 2018? 305
IETF Mulls Working Group For IPv6 Home Networking 104
Using Old Linksys Routers to Control BBQ Smokers 118
Cisco Helps China Keep an Eye On Its Citizens 121
In Australia, Censorship vs. DNS, and Porn As Network Driver 96
Ask Slashdot: Which Registrars Support DNSSEC? 70
40GB of Data That Costs the Same As a House 188
First Thunderbolt Peripherals Arrive To Market 259
Ask Slashdot: Mobile Data In Canada For a US Citizen? 270
Afghans Build Open Source Internet From Trash 140
US ISPs, Big Content Reaching Antipiracy Agreement 342
Landmark Steps Forward For Australia's NBN 66
FBI Seizes Servers In Virginia 405
PlanetLab Creates a More Advanced Sudo 153
US Funding Stealth Internets to Circumvent Repressive Regimes 289
Ask Slashdot: Linux Support In Universities? 432
Ex-Google Engineer Blasts Google's Technology 158
Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban 190
Ars Looks At In-Flight Internet — State of the Art vs. Things To Come 101
Ask Slashdot: Uses For a Small Office Server? 260
Syria Drops Off the Internet As Turmoil Spikes 94
World IPv6 Day On June 8 133
Bringing Old Arcade Machines Into the Internet Age 95
AT&T To Launch LTE Network In 5 Cities This Summer 84
Draft Horses Used To Lay Fiber-Optic Cable 154
New Laser Data Transfer Rate Record Set At 26 Tbps 127
NC Governor Allows Anti-Community-Broadband Law 356
Debriefing After Warsaw's First Startup Weekend 21
How Windows 7 Knows About Your Internet Connection 434
An IP Address For Every Light Bulb 457
GSM Association Slams Euro Call For Ban On Wireless In School 271
Keeping a Cellphone System Going In a War 34
Comcast Helps Fix Pirate Bay Connection Problems 237
IEEE Seeks Data On Ethernet Bandwidth Needs 117
Making Wireless, Not Ethernet, the Heart of the Network 346
A Court's Weak Argument For Blocking IP Subpoenas 220
Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Network Administrator? 480
Google Allows Carriers To Ban Tethering Apps 328
An IP Address Does Not Point To a Person, Judge Rules 293
AppleCrate II: Apple II-Based Parallel Computer 126
VMware Causes Second Outage While Recovering From First 215
Black Hat, DEFCON Founder Named CSO of ICANN 41
ARIN Implements DNSSEC 44
Amazon EC2 Failure Post-Mortem 117
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Leave My Router Open? 520
EFF Advocates Leaving Wireless Routers Open 686
Sony Sued For PlayStation Network Data Breach 404
Novell Completes Sale 202
PSN Outage Continues, Console Hack Claimed To Be Responsible 404
Markets For IPv4 Addresses Emerging 157
Comcast Hounded By Collections Agency 142
Virgin Media Demos World's Fastest Internet Service In the UK 115
Cisco Accused of Orchestrating Engineer's Arrest 160
First White Spaces AP Gives Grandma the Internet 43
Bug Forces Android Devices Off Princeton Campus Network 309
FTP Is 40 Years Old 253
DOJ Seizes Online Poker Site Domains 379
1Gbps Fiber Optic Network For Rural Britain 81
Internet2 Turns 15. Has It Delivered? 120
Apple AirPlay Private Key Exposed 306
Kyoto Prize Laureate Unsnarls Electronic Networks 36
Columbia University Ending the Kermit Project 146
House Votes To Overturn FCC On Net Neutrality 388
Verizon Net Neutrality Case Rejected 82
Regional Broadcast Using an Atmospheric Link Layer 41
Google Fiber Comes To Kansas City 162
RIAA Lobbyist Becomes Federal Judge, Rules On File-Sharing Cases 333
ISP's War On BitTorrent Hits World of Warcraft 252
Apple Remove Samba From OS X 10.7 Because of GPLv3 1075
Why Doesn't Every Website Use HTTPS? 665
Broadcasters Accuse Telecom Companies of Hoarding Spectrum 102
Getting Past Censorship With Unorthodox Links To the Internet 82
Gtk 3.2 Will Let You Run Applications In a Browser 184
US Military Blocks Websites To Free Up Bandwidth 164
In Virginia, Delivering Broadband To the Customers Big Telecom Forgot 127
Net Sees Earthquake Damage, Routes Around It 177
King Wants To Sell Out Ham Radio 309
Trumpet Winsock Creator Made Little Money 358
Ask Slashdot: Could We Reconnect Eastern Libya? 290
Most IPv6-certified Home Network Gear Buggy 174
Libyan Internet Flatlined 77
New Optical Fiber Replaces Glass With Semiconductive Core 56
Got (Buffer) Bloat? 121
When the Internet Nearly Fractured 119
Transparency Required For $37 Billion Aussie Broadband Deal 62
Feds Help You Find Your Fastest Internet Service 163
Vint Cerf Says No To IPv7, Yes To InterPlanetary Web 108
BitTorrent Ponders Releasing World ISP P2P Speed Report 156
House Passes Amendment To Block Funds For Net Neutrality 393
Egyptian 'Net Killed By Intimidation, Not a Switch 126
National Broadband Map Shows Digital Divide 182
Proposed Standard Would Address Video Buffering 118
Fibre Channel Over Ethernet: From Fee To Free 87
Send Kinect Gesture Recognition Data Over Infrared 49
Cisco Linksys Routers Still Don't Support IPv6 380
HP Accuses Cisco of Diverting Data Center Standard 47
1Gbps Wi-Fi Coming Soon To a Billion Devices 202
FCC Moves To Convert Phone Fund To Broadband Fund 91
Alcatel-Lucent Shrinks Mobile Cell Tower To Small Cube 113
If You Think You Can Ignore IPv6, Think Again 551
Egypt's Net Ruled By Phone, Not Kill Switch 102
Behind-The-Scenes Superbowl Tech 154
Comcast Activates IPv6 Trial Users 214
Last Available IPv4 Blocks Allocated 312
Egyptians Find New Ways To Get Online 202
UK Research Aims For 100x Speedup In Fiber-Based Broadband 180
UK ISPs Consider VPN To Avoid Piracy Crackdown 133
Half of .gov Sites Fail DNSSEC Test 34
Netflix Compares ISP Streaming Performance 209
Clear Has Nationwide Outage 89
Fedora 15 Changes Network Device Naming Scheme 132
Two-Thirds of US Internet Users Lack Fast Broadband 402
British ISPs Embracing Two-Tier Internet 305
Is Retaliation the Answer To Cyber Attacks? 142
RIAA Threatens ICANN Over Music-Themed gTLD Standards 174
Verizon Sues FCC Over Net Neutrality Rules 275
Yahoo IPv6 Upgrade Could Shut Out 1M Users 290
French ISP Throttles Direct Download Website 147
Military Aircraft To Get All-Fiber Network Gear 144
North Korean Domain Names Return To the Internet 135
Virgin Mobile To Start Throttling Broadband2Go 257
First Ceiling Light Internet Systems Installed 179
Apple Patent Hints at Net-Booting Cloud Strategy 156
Rushkoff Proposes We Fork the Internet 487
Zimbabwe Gov't Websites Hit By Pro-WikiLeaks DDoS Attack 115