The folks in Finland are planning a “National IPv6 Launch Day” for 9 June 2015. Patterned after 2012’s World IPv6 Launch but targeted at service providers and content providers in Finland, they are seeking participants (and already have a number of both broadband service providers and content companies) at their site: https://www.viestintavirasto.fi/en/ipv6now/index.html Given that Google’s IPv6 statistics Read more…
Dec 09
TDYR 193 – The Directory Problem: The Challenge for Wire, Talko and All Other Skype-Killers
To me the “directory problem” is the greatest challenge facing new communications apps such as Wire, Talko and many more…. how do you build up the directory of users so that the app is useful to people? People will only use a communications app IF t…
Dec 09
Catching Up With Mitel …
By way of a tweet I stumbled upon analyst Blair Pleasant’s UC Strategies post, "Change – The Only Thing That’s Constant", that showed me that while I’ve been off in the worlds of IPv6 and DNSSEC there has been a…
Dec 09
DNS Security Advisories Out Today For BIND, PowerDNS and Unbound – Time To Upgrade!
While this has nothing to do specifically with the topic of DNSSEC that we cover here on Deploy360, there is important news in the broader world of “DNS security”. The vendors of three of the major DNS recursive resolvers today released security advisories about a particularly nasty bug where the resolver can be tricked into Read more…
Dec 09
That moment when your computer makes a notification sound… but you can’t identify it, nor know which browser tab or app made the sound!
That moment when your computer makes a notification sound… but you can’t identify it, nor know which browser tab or app made the sound!
Dec 08
TDYR 192 – Where Are The Positive TV Shows Like The West Wing?
Where are the TV shows that are ultimately positive and hopeful like The West Wing? I’m looking for series like that, but all the recent drama series seems to be dark and gritty…
Dec 08
IPv6 Privacy Addresses Provide Protection Against Surveillance And Tracking
Recently we’ve seen several articles, such as one out today, that assert that IPv6 addresses will make it easier for security services and law enforcement to track you. Surprisingly, these articles seem to miss that when IPv6 is implemented today on mobile devices or other computers, it is almost always implemented using what are called “privacy Read more…
Dec 08
Internet Society Seeks Nominations for Board of Trustees (Featured Blog)
Are you passionate about preserving the global, open Internet? Do you have experience in Internet standards, development or public policy? If so, please consider applying for one of the open seats on the Internet Society Board of Trustees. The Internet…
Dec 07
In Every Action We Take, We Create The World We Want To Live In
In our every action… each moment of the day… we make the choice to build people up or to tear people down. The choice we make determines the type of person we are – and the type of world we want to live in.
