Telecom and Networking

Why aren’t Stingrays rendered ineffective by standard MITM defenses? – Information Security Stack Exchange

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/117460/why-arent-stingrays-rendered-ineffective-by-standard-mitm-defenses There’s been a lot of reporting in the past few years about law enforcement agencies using IMSI catchers (also known as Stingrays after a popular brand of them) to intercept cellular communications. Stingrays and other IMSI-catchers violate the cell tower agreements by producing an illegal signal, pretending to be a cell tower.They control the →

What ISPs Can See

What ISPs Can See: Clarifying the technical landscape of the broadband privacy debate https://www.teamupturn.com/reports/2016/what-isps-can-see Truly pervasive encryption on the Internet is still a long way off. The fraction of total Internet traffic that’s encrypted is a poor proxy for the privacy interests of a typical user. Even with HTTPS, ISPs can still see the domains →

The RIPE Atlas project

What’s like running water, only delivered directly to your hands? It’s the internet on your smartphone! This interconnection can seem magical, universal, global and instant. But it does so only until the moment something goes wrong. This free dingus can make the Internet faster, help you sort out your network and save remote communities article tells The →

Microsoft has released a Debian Linux switch OS. Repeat, a Debian Linux switch operating system • The Register

Microsoft has today released the source code to an open-source operating system, based on Debian GNU/Linux, that runs on network switches. The software is dubbed SONiC, aka Software for Open Networking in the Cloud. It’s a toolkit of code and kernel patches to bend switch hardware to your will. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/09/microsoft_sonic_debian/ Posted from WordPress for Android →

5G Coming Sooner, Not Later – IEEE Spectrum

Things are moving at blistering speed in the world of next-generation 5G mobile communications—even though many mobile users have still or only recently upgraded to 4G LTE communications, and even while 4G continues to evolve. Nevertheless, four of the telecom industry’s big hitters—Japan’s NTT Docomo, South Korea’s KT and SK Telecom, and Verizon in the →

Finnish startup Zyptonite brings privacy to video calls

“Zyptonite is the first real-time communications app that connects parties directly,” says Antti Uusiheimala, Co-Founder and CEO of Zyptonite. “People need a simple, reliable and free video call and messenger service that works on different devices and operating systems without problems.” The startup cut out the server and built its service on peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, →