Tag: internet

Tab Closed; Didn’t Read

interstitials: even more desperate and even less effective than the pimples of the web, social media buttons.

If you’re going to insist on obscuring your content with some stupid social shit, a promo for your shitty app or a full-page newsletter signup form, then I’m not going to read your content. Or click on your ads. Or help you generate revenue in any way.

MITM attacks on routing

We have observed Man-In-the-Middle hijacks on more than 60 days so far this year. ~1500 individual IP blocks have been hijacked, in events lasting from minutes to days, by attackers working from various countries. It’s possible to drag specific Internet traffic halfway around the world, inspect it, modify it if desired, and send it on its way. Who needs fiberoptic taps?

if you liked it, should have put encryption on it.

Encryption push

this is huge. a lot of the core internet infrastructure was designed in a time when cleartext was the way to go and there were no adversaries. just like the NIST got 0wned and is now fully pushing towards a secure future, the same is happening to the IETF. it is refreshing to see all this and i hope they succeed. as a side effect, this will also put all the clowns out of business that mess with your http traffic.

Star wars traceroute

rothfuss$ traceroute -q1 216.81.59.173
[…]
14 episode.iv (206.214.251.1) 360.289 ms
15 a.new.hope (206.214.251.6) 284.098 ms
16 it.is.a.period.of.civil.war (206.214.251.9) 269.723 ms
17 rebel.spaceships (206.214.251.14) 289.055 ms
18 striking.from.a.hidden.base (206.214.251.17) 316.657 ms
19 have.won.their.first.victory (206.214.251.22) 316.848 ms
20 against.the.evil.galactic.empire (206.214.251.25) 270.993 ms
21 during.the.battle (206.214.251.30) 278.327 ms
22 rebel.spies.managed (206.214.251.33) 268.359 ms
23 to.steal.secret.plans (206.214.251.38) 267.354 ms
24 to.the.empires.ultimate.weapon (206.214.251.41) 261.112 ms
25 the.death.star (206.214.251.46) 283.052 ms
26 an.armored.space.station (206.214.251.49) 349.085 ms
27 with.enough.power.to (206.214.251.54) 317.103 ms
28 destroy.an.entire.planet (206.214.251.57) 286.048 ms
29 pursued.by.the.empires (206.214.251.62) 283.335 ms
30 sinister.agents (206.214.251.65) 296.739 ms
31 princess.leia.races.home (206.214.251.70) 285.375 ms
32 aboard.her.starship (206.214.251.73) 276.528 ms
33 custodian.of.the.stolen.plans (206.214.251.78) 285.010 ms
34 that.can.save.her (206.214.251.81) 317.339 ms
35 people.and.restore (206.214.251.86) 282.054 ms
36 freedom.to.the.galaxy (206.214.251.89) 274.677 ms
37 0—–i——-i—–0 (206.214.251.94) 359.144 ms
38 0——————0 (206.214.251.97) 316.838 ms
39 0—————–0 (206.214.251.102) 397.795 ms
40 0—————-0 (206.214.251.105) 483.973 ms
41 0—————0 (206.214.251.110) 349.378 ms
42 0————–0 (206.214.251.113) 416.797 ms
43 0————-0 (206.214.251.118) 448.259 ms
44 0————0 (206.214.251.121) 299.694 ms
45 0———–0 (206.214.251.126) 282.940 ms
46 0———-0 (206.214.251.129) 267.170 ms
47 0———0 (206.214.251.134) 271.722 ms
48 0——–0 (206.214.251.137) 276.457 ms
49 0——-0 (206.214.251.142) 304.949 ms
50 0——0 (206.214.251.145) 313.470 ms
51 0—–0 (206.214.251.150) 312.838 ms
52 0—-0 (206.214.251.153) 336.959 ms
53 0—0 (206.214.251.158) 296.122 ms
54 0–0 (206.214.251.161) 272.652 ms
55 0-0 (206.214.251.166) 358.504 ms
56 00 (206.214.251.169) 300.241 ms
57 i (206.214.251.174) 284.062 ms
58 by.ryan.werber (206.214.251.177) 277.565 ms
59 blizzards.breed.ccie.creativity (206.214.251.182) 271.802 ms
60 please.try.again.tracerote.to.obiwan.scrye.net (206.214.251.185) 273.568 ms
61 read.more.at.beaglenetworks.net (206.214.251.190) 271.030 ms

Against comments

“A politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise has eroded the popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics. Everything, from evolution to the origins of climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again. Scientific certainty is just another thing for 2 people to “debate” on television. And because comments sections tend to be a grotesque reflection of the media culture surrounding them, the cynical work of undermining bedrock scientific doctrine is now being done beneath our own stories, within a website devoted to championing science.

now some philanthropist needs to buy twitter and shut it down, for the same reason.