Weekly Shaarli
Week 34 (August 23, 2021)
Based on facts and assumptions, this article summarizes how Apple's proprietary videotelephony protocol might work.
This post introduces Route Origin Authorization (ROA) and the implication of its usage for Twitter.
In this post, the author gives a short introduction to modern email domain security concepts.
This post shows how HTTP/2 solved bottlenecks between frontend and storage nodes in LinkedIn's distributed object-store.
»A survey commissioned by industrial giant Honeywell showed that roughly a quarter of facility managers have admitted suffering a breach of operational technology (OT) systems in the past year.«
The PAM Duress is a module designed to allow users to generate 'duress' passwords that will execute arbitrary scripts when used in place of their regular password.
This article covers new features of the SystemTap version that will be available in RHEL 9.
»Hamburg's state government has been formally warned against using Zoom over data protection concerns.«
The author explains why high-percentile latency is not a good way to measure efficiency.
»Suffice it to say, if you work someplace with enough machines, there's probably some way for you to get root on all of them if you can hit them with a handful of packets. I've seen it happen far too many times at enough companies to expect things to stay secure. I'm not talking about buffer overflows and stuff like that, although those exist too. I mean just straight up asking a service to please run a command for you (as root), and it gladly complies.«
»WinFsp is a set of software components for Windows computers that allows the creation of user mode file systems. In this sense it is similar to FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace), which provides the same functionality on UNIX-like computers.«
Besides other improvements and bug fixes, this release adds SFTP support for SCP as an eventual replacement to the SCP/RCP protocol and stricter configuration file parser for ssh and sshd.
The Haiku Project, originally named OpenBeOS, was founded in August 2001.