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Daily Archives: 18. September 2023
IARPA launches SMART ePANTS
(August 23, 2023)
The Smart Electrically Powered and Networked Textile Systems (SMART ePANTS) program represents the largest single investment to develop Active Smart Textiles (AST) that feel, move, and function like any garment. Resulting innovations stand to provide the Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and other agencies with durable, ready-to-wear clothing that can record audio, video, and geolocation data.
Kids Online Safety Act reviewed by Congress
(August 29, 2023)
The bill is working its way through Congress, and it’s important we understand what it does and doesn’t do.
Influencers Starting To Realize How The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Will Do Real Damage
(Jul 25th 2023)
„40 Senators have sponsored a bill to make sure you have to upload your driver’s license before you can use your First Amendment on the internet. That’s what they want. That’s what this bill is.
This bill is designed to make sure that they have your home address before you can actually post about ANYTHING on the internet.“
ESnet: The 100-gigabit shadow internet that only the US government has access to
(October 20, 2014)
One day, as I surfed the web on my laptop and lamented how long it takes a YouTube video to load, I found myself wondering if employees of the US government — DoD researchers, DoE scientists, CIA spies — are also beholden to the same congestion and shoddy peering that affects everyone else on the internet. Surely, as hundreds of scientists at Fermi Lab near Chicago wait for petabytes of raw data to arrive from the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, they don‘t suffer interminable connection drops and inexplicable lag. And, as it turns out, they don‘t: the US government and its national laboratories all have exclusive access to ESnet — a shadow internet that can sustain 100-gigabits-per-second transfers between any of the major Department of Energy labs. And today, the DoE announced that the 100-gigabit ESnet will be extended across the Atlantic to our Old World comrades, who occasionally manage to dazzle us with their scientific endeavors.
British Government launches secure intranet
(Feb 5 2004)
The Government Secure Intranet (GSi) project means that central and local Government employees will have restricted access to email, internet, remote working and a regularly updated central directory.
Government Secure Intranet
Government Secure Intranet (GSi) was a United Kingdom government wide area network, whose main purpose was to enable connected organisations to communicate electronically and securely at low protective marking levels. It was known for the ‚.gsi.gov.uk‘ family of domains for government email. Migration away from these domains began in 2019[1] and will be completed in 2023.
The UK’s Secretive Web Surveillance Program Is Ramping Up
(15.05.2023)
WIRED contacted nine of the UK’s internet service providers and telecom companies asking about their abilities to create and store people’s internet connection records. Eight did not respond to the request for comment. TalkTalk, the only one that did, said it will “meet its obligations” under UK law but couldn’t “confirm or deny” whether ICRs existed.
Cameron’s internet filter goes far beyond porn – and that was always the plan
(23 December 2013)
Through secretive negotiations with ISPs, the coalition has divided the internet into ‚acceptable‘ and ‚unacceptable‘ categories and cut people off from huge swathes of it at the stroke of a key.
UK Advisor Involved In Britain’s Internet Filter Arrested For Child Porn
(Mar 4, 2014)
Britain has come under fire for its Internet filtering program, which can inadvertently block sensitive culture topics that overlap with common porn terms. The program accidentally “led to the creation of filters that not only cover hardcore pornography, but hate speech, self-harm, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, dating, nudity, violence, gambling, social networking, file-sharing, games and more,” explained Wired UK.
Despite the embarrassing arrest, there is no announced plan to revise the Internet filtering program.
Ministers deny concessions as Online Safety Bill returns to Commons
(12.09.2023)
Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan insisted that nothing had changed in the long-awaited legislation, after privacy campaigners earlier this month claimed a victory following widespread reports of a shift in the Government stance on encryption.
DNS sobre TLS: privacidad en el DNS
(11.07.2017)
NIC Chile dispone de un „servidor de prueba“ puesto a disposición de los desarrolladores y primeros usuarios en adoptar y probar esta tecnología. Este servidor es completamente funcional, y se invita a la comunidad de .CL a utilizarlo consiguiendo tiempos de respuesta nacionales, sin necesidad de utilizar
servicios en el extranjero. Este servicio se entrega en forma gratuita pero en modo experimental, sin promesas de uptime ni su continuidad en el futuro. Existe registro de las queries con fines de investigación y control de abuso.
Para utilizarlo, los datos son:
IPv4: 200.1.123.46
IPv6: 2001:1398:1:0:200:1:123:46
Ports: 853 y 443
Hostname: dnsotls.lab.nic.cl (con „strict name TLS authentication“)
SPKI: pUd9cZpbm9H8ws0tB55m9BXW4TrD4GZfBAB0ppCziBg= (pin sha256)
Se agradecen los reportes de fallas y feedback técnico a través del correo dnsotls(at)lab.nic.cl.
DNS servers in South Africa
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DNS servers in Brazil
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Brief History of the Domain Name System
Jan. 7, 1958 – President Eisenhower requested funds to start ARPA.
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Summer 1975 – The Defense Communications Agency (DCA) took over the management of ARPANET.
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· November 1983 – The rapid growth of the internet caused massive problems in bookkeeping. To deal with this problem a group including Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris and Craig Partrige published RFC 882 which created the domain name system (DNS) to make Internet navigation easier. With DNS, users can type host names such as “USC-ISIF” instead of “10.2.0.52.” Every Address would have information from specific to general.