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grmoc writes:
As part of the "Let's make the web faster" initiative, we (a few engineers (including me!) at Google, and hopefully people all across the community soon!) are experimenting with alternative protocols to help reduce the latency of web pages. One of these experiments is SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY"), an application-layer protocol (essentially a shim between HTTP and the bits on the wire) for transporting content over the web, designed specifically for minimal latency. In addition to a rough specification for the protocol, we have hacked SPDY into the Google Chrome browser (because its what we're familiar with) and a simple server testbed. Using these hacked up bits, we compared the performance of many of the top 25 and top 300 websites over both HTTP and SPDY, and have observed those pages load, on average, about twice as fast using SPDY.. Thats not bad!
We hope to engage the open source community to contribute ideas, feedback, code (we've open sourced the protocol, etc!), and test results!
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turtleshadow writes:
Brian Krebs of Security Fix Blog analyzed the McColo Spamming one year later and asks an interesting question.
"How does one renovate and recoup the lost trust to the slums of the Internet and reclaim back all the domains and IP's that have been blacklisted?"
Indeed the economic benefits abound when a huge swath of illegal and annoying activity ceases but given the basic design of the internet what happens over the long run to IP space and DNS when hosting companies come and go and vary in their trustworthiness.
So too also now that Geocities is dead by economic means but does that still live in your filter list? It still appears in OpenDNS under several policy categories
How in a few years will I tell if some Hosting/Colo sold me Whitechapel Road/Ventura Avenue for Mayfair/Boardwalk prices and no one is going to accept my mail from a former slum?
I ask Slashdotters — when do you, if ever roll back the blacklists and filters for "dead" threats and spammers? Else is there a risk of garbage/crud lists all over the place interfering with routing and access to content?
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alphadogg writes:
Georgia Tech researchers have received a $450,000 NSF grant to boost security of iPhones, BlackBerries and other smartphones and the wireless networks on which they run. And it’s those networks where the researchers are really zeroing in. The researchers are looking into ways wireless carriers such as AT&T and Verizon can detect malware on devices and clean up the devices before they do further damage. "While a single user might realize that a phone is behaving differently, that person probably won’t know why," says Patrick Traynor, assistant professor at Georgia Tech’s School of Computer Science. "But a cell phone provider may see a thousand devices behaving in the same way and have the ability to do something about it." Georgia Tech is going to build out a cellular network test bed to try out its remote repair techniques.Link to Original Source
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rs232 writes:
Arms globocorp Lockheed Martin announced today that it has won a $31m contract from the famous Pentagon crazy-ideas bureau, DARPA, to reinvent the internet and make it more suitable for military use. Microsoft will also be involved in the effort
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carusoj writes:
The way traffic moves over the Internet has changed radically in the last five years. Arbor Networks next week will present a study that found that the bulk of Internet traffic no longer moves across Tier-1 international transit providers. Instead, the traffic is handled directly by large content providers, content delivery networks and consumer networks, and is handed off from one of these to another. You can probably guess what some of these companies are: Google, Microsoft, Facebook. Arbor says there are about 30 of these companies – which Arbor calls “hyper giants” – that generate and consume about 30% of all Internet traffic.
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Rubinstien writes:
O'Reilly Radar is reporting ( http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/lawgov-americas-operating-syst.html ) on an effort to produce Law.Gov, "America's Operating System, Open Source". The group Public.Resource.Org seeks "to create a solid business plan, technical specs, and enabling legislation for the federal government to create Law.Gov. We envision Law.Gov as a distributed, open source, authenticated registry and repository of all primary legal materials in the United States."
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Squiff writes:
It's been called an 'object of lust' http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/23/htc-hero-review/ and has been beating the iPhone for awards http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1220535/HTC-Hero-beats-Apple-iPhone-T3-Gadget-Awards.html as the first Android phone that really is 'the phone to have'. It has also just become available in the USA having been released in Europe in June. Unfortunately, despite being based on the Open Handset Alliance's Android platform and using several open source components, HTC are effectively refusing to release the source for the GPL parts of the code, citing that they are 'waiting for their developers to provide it' http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=569288&page=3. A petition has gone up today too http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/herokernel/index.html. They are ignoring their customers and their legal responsibilites, will they (can they?) ignore the Slashdot effect?
