The First Nepal School on Internet Governance
In January 2018, the Internet Society Nepal Chapter organized the first Nepal School on Internet Governance (npSIG) in collaboration with the Forum for Digital Equality. The initiative offered an intensive two-day learning course covering a wide list of topics at the Institute of Engineering Pulchowk in Kathmandu. The initiative helped participants to identify global and regional issues and facilitate the understanding of several aspects of Internet Governance, including access, diversity, security, privacy, IoT, and human rights within the Nepalese policy framework. The schedule included theoretical sessions, roleplays, and attendee engagement activities. All brilliant speakers presentations are available on sig.org.np for further consultation.
One of the major objectives of npSIG was to raise awareness among young people about Internet Governance issues and to promote their participation in the discussion. The speakers inspired analysis, critical thinking and motivated the audience to design effective questions and take action.
How can we manage the Internet’s evolution in our country?
The opening speech delivered by Baburam Aryal, Chairperson at the Forum for Digital Equality, enhanced the understanding of the Internet Governance concept, which in Nepal is in the very early stages of development. The establishment of a proper ecosystem is complex as Continue reading
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Nest Alert: Protection From Pwned* Passwords
A colleague just received an “Urgent Security Alert – Action Requested” email from Nest. At first glance it looked like either a phishing attempt or one of the way-too-often breach notifications we all receive these days. Instead, it was a real alert notifying him that the password he uses for his Nest account had been compromised in a data breach – not at Nest but somewhere else. Nest encouraged him to update to a unique password and enable two-step verification (additional authentication beyond a password, usually referred to as multi-factor authentication).
While it’s not clear exactly how Nest determined that the password was compromised, it could have come from security researcher Troy Hunt’s recently updated Pwned Passwords service (part of his “have i been pwned?” site). Via this service, you can enter a password to see if it matches more than half a billion passwords that have been compromised in data breaches. A hashed version of the full list of passwords can also be downloaded to do local or batch processing. (“Pwned” is video gamer talk for “utterly defeated,” as in “Last time we played, I pwned him.”)
Hunt created this service in response to the National Continue reading
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Layers of Single-Pane-of-Glass Abstractions Won’t Solve Your Problems
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We’ve been told for years how we’re over-complicating networking, and how the software-defined or intent-based whatever will remove all that complexity and remove the need for networking engineers.
What never ceases to amaze me is how all these software-defined systems are demonstrated: each one has a fancy GUI that looks great in PowerPoint and might even work in practice assuming you’re doing exactly what they demonstrated… trying to be creative could result in interesting disasters.
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