Remember 2016? Pokemon Go was all the rage, we lost Prince, and there were surprising election results in both the UK and US. Back in 2016, Blackbird Technologies was notorious in the world of patent litigation. It was a boutique law firm that was one of the top ten most active patent trolls, filing lawsuits against more than 50 different defendants in a single year.
In October 2016, Blackbird was looking to acquire additional patents for their portfolio when they found an incredibly broad software patent with the ambiguous title, “PROVIDING AN INTERNET THIRD PARTY DATA CHANNEL.” They acquired this patent from its owner for $1 plus “other good and valuable consideration.” A little later, in March 2017, Blackbird decided to assert that patent against Cloudflare.
As we have explained previously, patent trolls benefit from a problematic incentive structure that allows them to take vague or abstract patents that they have no intention of developing and assert them as broadly as possible. Instead, these trolls collect licensing fees or settlements from companies who are otherwise trying to start a business, produce useful products, and create good jobs. Companies facing such claims usually convince themselves that settlements Continue reading
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The research shows that, yes, its mostly luck
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This is the third post in the Loading Configs series. In this post, we will cover the load replace command. …
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A friend of mine sent me a short message including…
There is a number of products that recently arrived or are coming to market using group encryption systems for IP networks, but are (understandably) not using IPsec.
… which triggered an old itch of mine caused by the “We don’t need no IETF standards, code is king” stupidity.
Read more ...An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations Ren et al., SOSP’19
I was drawn in by the headline results here:
This paper presents an analysis of how Linux’s performance has evolved over the past seven years… To our surprise, the study shows that the performance of many core operations has worsened or fluctuated significantly over the years.
When you get into the details I found it hard to come away with any strongly actionable takeaways though. Perhaps the most interesting lesson/reminder is this: it takes a lot of effort to tune a Linux kernel. For example:
Meanwhile, Linux releases a new kernel every 2-3 months, with between 13,000 and 18,000 commits per release.
Clearly, performance comes at a high cost, and unfortunately, this cost is difficult to get around. Most Linux users cannot afford Continue reading
We are proud to partner with Fortinet and join their Fabric-Ready Technology Alliance Partner program. With this partnership, Fortinet customers will be able to extend their network security architecture to their Kubernetes environments.
Our partnership was driven from interest from Fortinet’s customers to protect their Kubernetes based infrastructure. Kubernetes adoption is growing like wildfire and nearly every enterprise on the planet is at some stage of their Kubernetes journey.
The Tigera and Fortinet joint solution will support all cloud-based and on-premises Kubernetes environments. With this architecture, Tigera Secure will map security policies from FortiManager into each Kubernetes cluster in the cloud or on-premises. The joint solution will enable Fortinet customers to enforce network security policies for traffic into and out of the Kubernetes cluster (North/South traffic) as well as traffic between pods within the cluster (East/West traffic).
Tigera Secure will also integrate with threat feeds from FortiGuard to detect and block any malicious activity inside the clusters. Tigera will monitor the cluster traffic and send these events to FortiSIEM, enabling the security operations team to quickly diagnose the situation.
If you are attending Microsoft Ignite join us at our respective booths to learn more about our solution (Fortinet Booth #519 Continue reading
TRex is an open source traffic generator, and the project is backed by Cisco. On today's Heavy Networking, TRex's lead developer Hanoch Haim joins us to dive into details on the software. Haim is also a Principal Engineer at Cisco.
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