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The Week in Internet News: Zoom Says End-to-End Encryption Only for Paying Users

No free encryption: Popular videoconferencing service Zoom has promised to roll out end-to-end encryption, but it won’t provide encrypted service to free users, The Verge reports. The decision allows Zoom to share information about free conference with law enforcement agencies. Zoom doesn’t want to give free users end-to-end encryption “because we also want to work together with the FBI, with local law enforcement, in case some people use Zoom for a bad purpose,” Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said.

A big spike: Internet use has gone up dramatically in rural India in recent weeks, with people flocking to YouTube, Netflix, and other services during the COVID-19 pandemic, Inc42.com reports. Data consumption on the BharatNet fiber backbone nearly tripled, to 150 Terabytes in May from 55 TB in January. During the same timeframe, Netflix use in rural India grew by 422 percent, with YouTube and Facebook growing by 219 percent and 374 percent, respectively.

Broadband challenges: The government of Nigeria has a new broadband plan with a goal of increasing download speeds to 25 Mbps in urban areas and 10 Mbps in rural areas, Quartz Africa says. The country now has a mean download speed of less than 1.6 Mbps. But Continue reading

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AT&T Trumpets First US Activation of Dynamic Spectrum Sharing

“DSS is an important stepping stone on our path to nationwide 5G," AT&T's Igal Elbaz said.

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Not Giving Up on Data Surveillance

I often hear people expressing their of helplessness in the face of pervasive corporate surveillance.  "They've already got all my data, what can I do anyway ?" When I was twenty five, my career was centred on maintaining Novell and Windows networks, my life aspirations were to own my car and a house. My social […]

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Redundant Server Connectivity in Layer-3-Only Fabrics

A long while ago I decided to write an article explaining how you could run VMware NSX on ESXi servers with redundant connections to two top-of-rack switches on top of a layer-3-only fabric (a fabric with IP subnets and VLANs limited to a single top-of-rack switch). Turns out that’s Mission Impossible, so I put the article on the back burner and slowly forgot about it.

Well, not exactly. Every now and then my subconsciousness would kick it up and I’d figure out yet-another reason why it’s REALLY hard to do it right. After a while, I decided to try again, and completely rewrote the article. The first part is already online, more details coming (hopefully) soon.

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DevAsc – Introduction to XML

Introduction

XML, or Extensible Markup Language, rounds out the usual suspects of YAML, JSON, and XML. It’s probably my least favorite of the three, but knowledge of XML is needed when working with code.

XML is, of course, related to HTML. So why didn’t we just settle for HTML? Turns out machines don’t understand HTML very well. They can parse it perfectly fine, yes, but in HTML you put information in, such an address, and you understand it’s an address because you are a human. A machine doesn’t know that Baker Street is an address, unless you tell it.

Syntax

XML consists of tags, elements, and attributes. Let’s take a basic example and then go through these in more detail:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<address>
  <name>
    <title>Mr</title>
    <first-name>Sherlock</first-name>
    <last-name>Holmes</last-name>
  </name>
  <street>221B Baker Street</street>
  <city state="NA">London</city>
</address>

First, we declare that this is an XML document and the encoding used. This is called a prolog. It’s optional, but if included, should always be the first line.

The tag <address> is the root of the document. We must always have a root. The tag <address> has three children:

• <name>
• <street>
• <city>

The tag <name> has three children as well:

• Continue reading

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Ladies and Gentlemen… Cloudflare TV!

I'm excited to announce the upcoming launch of Cloudflare TV. A 24x7 live television broadcast, streamed globally via the Cloudflare network. You can tune in to the pre-broadcast station and check out the upcoming schedule at: cloudflare.tv

I'm kicking off the first live broadcast starting at 12:00pm Pacific (1900 UTC) on Monday, June 8 with a conversation with Chris Young (add to calendar). Chris was most recently the CEO of McAfee and has had a career defining the cyber security industry, from his own startup Cyveillance in the 1990s, to leadership positions at AOL, RSA, VMWare, Cisco, and Intel. I hope you'll tune in and then stay tuned for all the content our team has in store.

Which leaves the question: why on earth is Cloudflare launching a 24x7 television station?

The Uniting Power of Television and Tech Conferences

I was born in the 70's, am a child of the 80's, and got started in my career in the 90's. In the background, throughout much of it, was linear television we watched together. Over the last few months I've learned that Michelle Zatlyn, my co-founder and Cloudflare's COO, and I shared a love of Children's Television Network's Continue reading

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Headcount: Firings, Hirings, and Retirings — May 2020

Nutanix furloughed 25% of its workforce, saying COVID-19 is to blame; SAP cloud CFO jumped ship;...

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6G Concepts Gain Backing Amid Political Smacking

Efforts to develop what comes after 5G are gaining momentum, but it’s more of a rallying cry to...

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Worth Reading: Emerging Communications Technologies

Every few years someone within the ITU-T (the standard organization that mattered when we were still dealing with phones, virtual circuits and modems) realizes how obsolete they are and tries to hijack and/or fork the Internet protocol development. Their latest attempt is the “New IP” framework, and Geoff Huston did a great job completely tearing that stupidity apart in his May 2020 ISP column. My favorite quote:

It’s really not up to some crusty international committee to dictate future consumer preferences. Time and time again these committees with their lofty titles, such as “the Focus Group on Technologies for Network 2030” have been distinguished by their innate ability to see their considered prognostications comprehensively contradicted by reality! Their forebears in similar committees missed computer mainframes, then they failed to see the personal computer revolution, and were then totally surprised by the smartphone.

Enjoy!

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On this 8th World IPv6 Launchiversary, Help Us Get More Websites Available Over IPv6

Eight years ago, on June 6, 2012, thousands of companies and organizations came together as part of World IPv6 Launch to permanently enable IPv6 for their websites and networks.

Today, we can see the success! If you visit the World IPv6 Launch measurements site, you can see some amazing numbers:

• Reliance Jio’s network in India has over 90% IPv6 deployment!
• Comcast’s huge network in the US is at 73% IPv6.
• The combined US wireless carriers are over 85% IPv6.
• Deutsche Telekom is over 68% IPv6.
• Claro in Brazil is at 62% IPv6.

Another major source of info, Google’s IPv6 statistics, show that over 30% of all traffic to Googles sites globally is now over IPv6. If you look at Google’s per-country IPv6 adoption, some countries are seeing up around 50% of all traffic to Google’s properties going over IPv6.

This is all fantastic to see. But of course, we want more IPv6 deployment!

Specifically, we want more web sites and services available over IPv6. Increasing numbers of IPv6-only mobile networks are being deployed around the world. To ensure that people can reach websites that are still only available over IPv4, many IPv6-only networks use IPv6-to-IPv4 gateways. But we Continue reading

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Presto Is The Third Time Charm For Federated Databases

Users of relational database management systems are accustomed to sub-second response for relatively simple online transaction processing, and have been able to enjoy those zippy responses for decades. …

Presto Is The Third Time Charm For Federated Databases was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Daily Roundup: VMware Lassos Lastline

VMware lassoed Lastline to boost security NDR; How to train employees not to fall for phishing...

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Weekend Reads 060520

On 27 February 2020, MalwareMustDie (MMD), a workgroup focused on the research and study of Linux malware, analysed and shared a new type of malware they called RHOMBUS. This malware was compiled for different architectures, had persistence mechanisms and dropped a second-stage payload. —Lisandro Ubiedo

Security researchers witnessed the deployment of PonyFinal ransomware at the end of extended human-operated attack campaigns. In a series of tweets, Microsoft Security Intelligence revealed it had observed human-operated campaigns laying in wait for the right moment to deploy PonyFinal ransomware as their final payload. —David Bisson

NetWalker (also known as Mailto) is the name given to a sophisticated family of Windows ransomware that has targeted corporate computer networks, encrypting the files it finds, and demanding that a cryptocurrency payment is made for the safe recovery of the encrypted data. —Graham Cluley

Memory isolation is a cornerstone security feature in the construction of every modern computer system. Allowing the simultaneous execution of multiple mutually distrusting applications at the same time on the same hardware, it is the basis of enabling secure execution of multiple processes on the same machine or in the cloud. The operating system is in charge of enforcing this isolation, as well Continue reading

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Ciena Posts Strong Q2 Earnings Beat

Revenues during the quarter reached $894 million, up 3.4% year over year, exceeding investor...

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VMware Buys Lastline to Boost Security NDR

Lastline is known for its anti-malware research and artificial intelligence-powered network...

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Heavy Networking 521: Diving Into Dell Technologies’ SONiC Network OS For The Enterprise (Sponsored)

Today's Heavy Networking podcast explores Dell Technologies' SONiC network OS for enterprises. This distro offers hardware support across multiple ASIC platforms and full enterprise support. We dive into technical details, discuss the business and operational value propositions, explore use cases, and more. Dell Technologies is our sponsor for this episode. Our guest is Alley Hasan, Director, Product Strategy and Business Development.

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Heavy Networking 521: Diving Into Dell Technologies’ SONiC Network OS For The Enterprise (Sponsored)

Today's Heavy Networking podcast explores Dell Technologies' SONiC network OS for enterprises. This distro offers hardware support across multiple ASIC platforms and full enterprise support. We dive into technical details, discuss the business and operational value propositions, explore use cases, and more. Dell Technologies is our sponsor for this episode. Our guest is Alley Hasan, Director, Product Strategy and Business Development.

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Attention Resource Deficit

How much did your last laptop cost? You probably know down to the penny. How much time did it take for you to put together your last Powerpoint deck or fix an issue for a customer? You can probably track that time in the hours you recorded on your timesheet. What about the last big meeting you had of the department? Can you figure out how many hours combined of time that it took to get the business discussed? Pretty easy to calculate when you know how many people and how long it took.

All of these examples are ways that we track resources in the workplace. We want to know how many dollars were invested in a particular tool. We want to figure out how many hours someone has worked on a project or a proposal. We want to know how much of the company’s resources are being invested so we can track it and understand productivity and such. But when’s the last time you tracked your personal resources? I’m not talking about work you do or money you spend. I’m talking about something more personal than that. Because one of the things that I’ve seen recently that is Continue reading

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How to Train Employees Not to Fall for Phishing Attacks

“I know it’s an extremely overused term in security awareness, but gamification is extremely...

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DockerCon 2020: And … That’s a Wrap

DockerCon LIVE 2020 is a wrap, and you rocked it! Our first-ever virtual swing at the traditionally in-person event was a winner on so many levels.

One of our goals was to extend our reach to all developers and members of the community by making the conference digital and free of charge. Mission accomplished! A grand total of 78,000 folks signed up for the May 28 one-day online event.

You hailed from 193 countries (by some counts there are only 196 countries on the planet!). That includes far-flung places like Madagascar, Zimbabwe and even the Maldives. Heck, you even joined us from the Vatican City State (pop. about 800).

Whether you were a seasoned developer or just starting out, our content game was strong. Best practices, how-tos, new product features and use cases, technical deep dives, open source projects—you name it, it was on the menu.

One of our key challenges was replicating the interactivity and spontaneity of in-person events in a virtual setting, but our efforts paid off. We made sure speakers and interviewees were available for live Q&A for their whole session to engage with attendees, resulting in over 21K chats. And remember those popular Hallway Tracks Continue reading