Internet/Net Leftovers
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Education
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APNIC ☛ Event Wrap: OARC 44
APNIC participated in the DNS Operations, Analysis, and Research Centre’s (DNS-OARC) 44th Workshop (OARC 44), held online and in person in Atlanta, Georgia on 6 and 7 February 2025.
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APNIC ☛ Welcome to APRICOT 2025
Monday also includes the APRICOT Plenary with presentations on IPv6, submarine cable systems, BGP flowspec, and Telekom Malaysia’s RPKI deployment journey.
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Daniel Stenberg ☛ A second curl distro meeting 2025
We are doing a rerun of last year’s successful curl + distro online meeting. A two-hour discussion, meeting, workshop for curl developers and curl distro maintainers. Maybe this is the start of a new tradition?
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Pong can now be played across 240 browser tabs — faviconic leverages tab favicons
In any case, Faviconic Pong is an impressively unconventional use of AppleScript and modern web browsing interfaces, specifically Chrome and its Chromium branch. This game's effective exclusivity to Mac OS is something of a shame but a necessary compromise based on how AppleScript was used for its development.
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Mozilla
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Mozilla ☛ Mozilla Open Policy & Advocacy Blog: Mozilla Joins Amicus Brief in Support of Law That Protects Your Private Messages
Today Mozilla has joined an amicus brief in the California Supreme Court defending statutory privacy protections for messages on services such as Snapchat or Facebook. The amicus brief asks the court to overrule a lower court opinion that would significantly reduce the legal privacy protections for users of these widely used services. Mozilla is joined on the brief by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Center for Democracy and Technology.
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Standards/Consortia
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Terence Eden ☛ The least secure TOTP code possible
As I've moaned about before, TOTP has never been properly standardised. It's a mish-mash of half-finished proposals with no active development, no test suite, and no-one looking after it. Which is exactly what you want from a security specification, right?!
So let's try to find some edge-cases and see where things break down.
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