Very cool news out of the FreeBSD team yesterday… the upcoming FreeBSD 10 will include support in OpenSSH for DNSSEC. The key point is this: This means that OpenSSH will silently trust DNSSEC-signed SSHFP records. What this means is this: when you go to ssh into an unknown system (i.e. one that is not in Read more…
Sep 12
TDYR #035 – WiFi Cafés And Shaking Up The (Home) Office Routine
Do you sometimes need to change your location to break up your work routine? Maybe work from a different place? Or a different part of your office? In this episode I talk about this a bit from my perspective of working out of a home office…
Sep 11
“Impact IPv6″ Aims To Expand IPv6 Usage Throughout Cameroon
How will IPv6 improve Internet capabilities in Cameroon? In a recent post on our main Internet Society blog titled “Preparing Cameroon for the future“, Victor Ndonnang speaks about part of the rationale for the work he and a team of people are doing as part of the “Impact IPv6″ project: ‘Imagine, in the next two, Read more…
Sep 10
TDYR #034 – Initial Thoughts On Apple’s iPhone 5c, 5s Announcement
With Apple’s announcement of the iPhone 5c and 5s today, I spoke about my initial thoughts on the news… and desire to play with the fingerprint sensor on the 5s. What do you think about the news? Interesting? Just “meh”? Will you upgrade?
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Sep 09
IETF Chair’s Statement On Security, Privacy And Widespread Internet Monitoring (Featured Blog)
This weekend Jari Arkko, Chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and Stephen Farrell, IETF Security Area Director, published a joint statement on the IETF blog titled: “Security and Pervasive Monitoring”… They go on to outline some of th…
Sep 09
New DNSSEC Deployment Maps Available
Curious to see where DNSSEC is being deployed around the world? I’m pleased to note that we’ve updated the DNSSEC deployment maps we have available at: http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/dnssec/maps/ These maps are produced by the team at Shinkuro, Inc. The data on the map should line up with other sources of DNSSEC statistics, such as ICANN’s TLD Read more…
Sep 03
Microsoft Buys Nokia – Was There Really Another Choice?
Microsoft accomplished something today they haven’t done for a while (at least in my memory) – they dominated the main page of Techmeme and had a great amount of the tech media talking about them. The news, of course, is…
Sep 03
TDYR #033 – Microsoft Buys Nokia: Is Anyone Really Surprised?
See: http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2013/09/microsoft-buys-nokia-was-there-really-another-choice.html
Sep 03
Video Interview: Matt Larson on the Future of DNS and DNSSEC
What needs to be done to get DNSSEC further deployed? What is the future of DNSSEC and DNS in general? At IETF 87 in Berlin we had a chance to sit down with Matt Larson, formerly of Verisign and now Chief Architect at Dyn. Matt shared his thoughts with us: We appreciated Matt’s time and Read more…
Sep 02
FIR #719 – 9/2/13 – For Immediate Release
Craig Jolley interview this week; Neville to moderate Scoble-Israel CIPR appearance; Quick News: News from WordPress, Twitter and Facebook; social media brand banter, multiple Twitter profiles common with brands, Google preps Hangouts for the enterpris…
