#isp
#Internet #Censorship Update: Transparent #DNS #Proxy Implemented by Malaysian ISPs on #Cloudflare and #Google Public DNS Servers
On Time, DNS queries to both Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8) and Cloudflare Public DNS (1.1.1.1) are being automatically redirected to Time #ISP DNS servers.
#freedom #politics #network #government #problem #manipulation #news #technology
Court blocks net neutrality, says ISPs are likely to win case against FCC
It's not over, but three judges said ISPs "are likely to succeed on the merits."
The US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit previously issued an administrative stay that delayed enforcement of the rules for a few weeks, which didn't necessarily indicate much about the judges' view of the lawsuit. But on Thursday, the judges issued an order that stays the net neutrality rules until the court makes a final ruling, and judges made it clear they believe the Internet service providers have a stronger case than the FCC.
#net-neutrality #fcc #6th-circuit #sixth-circuit #us-court-of-appeals #lawsuit #isp #isps
#StormBamboo Compromises #ISP to Abuse Insecure #Software #Update Mechanisms
The #infection vector for this malware was initially difficult to establish but later proved to be the result of a #DNS poisoning attack at the internet service provider (ISP) level. Volexity determined that StormBamboo was altering DNS query responses for specific #domains tied to automatic software update mechanisms. StormBamboo appeared to target software that used insecure update mechanisms, such as #HTTP, and did not properly validate digital signatures of installers.
#news #security #cybersecurity #malware #internet #cyberwar #cybercrime #danger #web
Multiple Homelab Dial-up Lines
hrr, online mit ner sega dreamcast..
Multiple Homelab Dial-up Lines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuBMaAi5wZU
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=xuBMaAi5wZU
#sega #dreamcast #online #retro #home #lab #isp #pop #Cisco #clabretro #RandomShit ;)
My #ISP has been cranking up the #network speed recently. Over the past few weeks, my decrepit old #router couldn't handle it any longer and kept dropping the connection and then resetting. It was very frustrating. Happily, they've sent a new one and things are back up and the connection is looking solid again, with the added bonus that the speed is nearly three times as much I had been getting previously.
One day in May in 1997, I tried #RedHat #Linux. Interestingly, it booted directly from CD on my laptop. Why couldn't Windows do this? I would discover that this Linux distribution did so much more on a basic install. I would discover my #ISP hosted a usergroup and helped me set up a webserver, mail server, static IP address, and so much more. A month later, I wiped out the windows partition I never used to make room for all the free applications and media I discovered. The computer was so much faster since I had control what part of applications compiled. Pretty soon, I was traveling to Atlanta for the Linux expo with many others around the world.
25 years later, seeing people struggle with Windows boggles my mind. I guess commercial software is like sugar in food. People can't quit. I no longer use any commercial Linux distributions as they share many types of hostile vendor lock in such as Microsoft.
Hmm...
As ISPs seek payments from Big Tech, Google criticizes “sender-pays” model
Google exec objects as EU mulls whether tech giants should fund telecom networks.
Here's another #post-mortem for you.
Tl;dr: Be sure your diagnostic tools show everything and do not hide vital information even though running in verbose or verbose-verbose mode.
First of all: My home #network is not as simple as it could be and certainly not as simple as it would be with most private users around the globe.
That brings with it its very own bunch of challenges, none of which is of any particular concern here. Suffice it to say, a regular consumer-grade internet access device (colloquially "WiFi router") would not do it. I have heavier requirements.
That in turn means my #ISP did not supply me with a real router – in fact I decline any ISP-supplied device whenever possible. Instead I bought my own device which does fulfill my requirements, in this case a semi-professional router with #PPPoE #pass-through capabilities, essentially a #DSL-modem.
The latter is the important part, because that is where my weekend worries began.
The modem did work for years on end with no reason for me to ever regret my decision to buy it in the first place.
Until last friday morning when it rebooted from the latest firmware upgrade.
At that very moment my internet connection dropped with a very dreaded error message from the #PPP daemon: "Timeout waiting for PADO packets."
That's tech-talk for "the ISP does no longer reply to my connection requests."
The message was already known to me and experience had me on the side of stupid coincidence which I have seen more often than I could count. So, quickly I was on the phone with the ISP requesting a port reset hoping for instant recovery.
Which didn't happen.
I'll skip the boring part of booting, downgrading, recabling and testing (even with a new OS install) for hours while other people expected me to work, but it went on until monday morning. Needless to say, I had a lot of time to think during the weekend.
I will just mention that most of the time I got beyond that PADO step, yet #pppd failed to get any replies for its #LCP configuration requests (that way I can add some more hashtags to the post, yay!).
On monday morning I finally figured I should do a real trace of the conversation appearing on the wire, for as far as #tcpdump told me not only was I sending requests, I even got answers from the ISP. Only, they were ignored by my endpoint software.
tcpdump's console output did not reveal why this should happen, a different network card, updated endpoint software - nothing actually helped. Requests were sent, replies came in and were promptly ignored.
Until I was fed up enough and decided to have a deep look into that very conversation on the wire, using #wireshark. Wireshark is a very powerful tool and its most notable feature is it doesn't hide any information by default.
And it was this now unhidden information which finally pointed me in the right direction: The oh-so-dutifully ignored replies from my ISP carried with them a #VLAN tag.
Short excursion: I am using a #VDSL landline on which the provider offers "triple-play", that is, Internet, Telephone and TV all over the same cable. For that to work technically, the ISP requires its customers to tag their "regular" outgoing internet traffic with a certain VLAN id before sending it out to the ISP. Likewise, the ISP tags all incoming internet traffic with same id.
Usually, the modem should do the tag/untag of the traffic before handing it over to the LAN, in my case to my PPP endpoint.
And it was this very tag/untag which actually stopped working.
From this point on the solution was pretty simple: If the tagging inside the modem is unreliable, the feature can be disabled (in fact, it can be configured to suit the ISP's requirements). So I did that. Now that caused the situation to deteriorate in the first step, because now nothing was coming back at all anymore. Where at least I got ignored replies from the ISP before now I got nothing.
However, #linux is capable of a lot of things, one of which is making network cards do "the right thing". In this case I reconfigured the system's network to add the required VLAN tag to everything related to the much needed PPP connection. A side effect is that the kernel now also removes the tag from any incoming frame.
At this point my PPP endpoint finally got the replies again and within seconds the connection was back up as it was designed in the first place.
Needless to say I think it's a bug in the modem's firmware, yet since downgrading did not improve the situation, it seems the bug was introduced much earlier but never manifested itself.
Also, to reference the "tl;dr" from above: Had I done the wireshark trick right from the start I probably would have stumbled over the wrong VLAN tag much earlier, saving me a lot of testing hours as well as a lot of worries on how to get the system back to its intended state.
The lesson I learned is that even though diagnostic tools can be made to be very verbose, sometimes they still skip some information vital to the issue in question and thus can not necessarily be fully trusted. It is not only important to have those tools at hand, it is quite as important to know their limitations and how to handle or overcome them.
#capitalism, in practice:
Operating an #ISP isn't #Mauch's primary job, as he is still a network architect at Akamai. He started planning to build his own #network about five years ago after being unable to get modern service from any of the major ISPs.
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As we wrote last year, #AT&T only offers #DSL with download speeds up to 1.5Mbps at his home. He said #Comcast once told him it would charge $50,000 to extend its cable network to his house—and that he would have gone with Comcast if they only wanted $10,000. Comcast demands those up-front fees for line extensions when customers are outside its network area, even if the rest of the neighborhood already has Comcast service.
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Mauch was using a 50Mbps fixed #wireless service before switching over to his own #fiber network. In addition to his home Internet customers, Mauch told us he provides free 250Mbps service to a church that was previously having trouble with its Comcast service. Mauch said he also provides fiber backhaul to a couple of cell towers for a major mobile carrier.
Becoming #Anonymous: The Complete #Guide To Maximum #Security #Online
Attention! Highest danger level! The following link leads you directly to the #YouTube data mafia. It is strongly recommended to use this link only with appropriate security protection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z7H5tXqMGo
Alternative: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4Z7H5tXqMGo
Choose another instance: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=4Z7H5tXqMGo
#password #web #internet #www #isp #privacy #surveillance #browser #tracking #messenger #tor #fdroid
#Resiliency of the #Internet in #Ukraine
video: https://ripe84.ripe.net/archive/video/emile-aben_resiliency-of-the-internet-in-ukraine_main-20220516-143147.mp4
source: https://ripe84.ripe.net/archives/video/738/
#Decentralization makes the Internet in Ukraine very resilient even in wartime.
ISPs, FNOs, ONTs, WiFi, and UPSs — What terminology you should know about getting fibre for your home
Getting fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) Internet for your household will ensure you have the fastest and most reliable online connectivity on offer.
But there are various parties, several pieces of hardware, and some confusing terms involved in the process that might be a challenge for the less technically inclined.
Although the providers are South Africa specific, the terminology and components should be generic to any country, and it is useful to understand how it all fits together. Always shop around as often ISPs will have special deals if you switch to them, and remember you can choose any ISP that supports the fibre present in your area.
#technology #fibre #southafrica #ISP
#Blog, ##fibre, ##isp, ##southafrica, ##technology
Apple May Be Testing Auto Lens Flare Removal for iPhone Photos
Apple appears to have added a feature in the latest iOS 15 operating system beta that will automatically remove the "green orb" lens flare that is common when a bright light appears in the frame, but only in certain circumstances.
Noticed by MacRumors, a discussion among some users on Reddit appears to have found instances where the iPhone is performing some kind of background image processing that automatically removes the green dot lens flare from photos.
Apple has strongly relied on its image processing to improve the quality of images in new iPhones, and this change appears to be baked directly into the upcoming operating system. In two images posted on Reddit (and shared below via Halide), Apple appears to have created an algorithm that will automatically remove flare from photos in specific circumstances after the photo is taken. The two photos show post-photo processing on the newest beta where the final still shot from a live photo appears without the "green orb" lens flare.
Big news: the latest iOS 15 beta automatically removes the famous 'green orb' lens flares we are so used to on iPhones. Thoughts? https://t.co/l6OQ3vRVRR pic.twitter.com/4wtorXaZxt
-- Halide (@halidecamera) August 4, 2021
Once pointed out, other beta testers agreed that the change was visible on their devices as well, but not in every circumstance.
"It doesn't appear to do it when the flare is on certain surfaces, like trees or through screens," one Reddit user has reported. "It does fine for grass, sky, and most other textures though!"
He later adds that it doesn't seem to work with bathroom lights either, and may only work well with the sun.
"It's pretty inconsistent."
One other Reddit user pointed out that they were able to see the lens flare in a photo taken with an iPhone 12 Pro, but when they revisited the photo later in the day they noticed it had been automatically removed.
"So I've noticed something that I haven't seen reported elsewhere; whilst out and about I took this photo and thought it was ruined/needing to be edited later due to the lens flare (as I've done numerous times in previous photos with the iPhone 12 Pro as it's so prone to lens flares)," they write. "However, I got home and noticed the lens flare has automatically gone in the original photo despite it being obviously there still in the live photo, meaning the automatic post-processing has gotten smart enough to remove lens flares now!"
PetaPixel reached out to Apple, but the company did not immediately reply.
iOS 15 is still currently in testing and will not ship to all users until this fall.
#mobile #news #apple #appleiphone #beta #betatesting #flare #imagesignalprocessing #ios15 #iosbeta #iphone #isp #lensflare #smartphonecamera
Anleitung / DNS-Sperre
DNS-Sperre umgehen und Streaming/Download-Portal aufrufen
Internet-Provider wie 1&1, Vodafone oder die Telekom blockieren seit dem 11.03.2021 das Streaming-Portal S.to und SerienStream.sx. Wie du die Sperre als Nutzer umgehst, erfährst du hier.
Inhalt:
- Möglichkeit: DNS over HTTPS aktivieren (Empfehlung) [...]
- Möglichkeit: DNS-Nameserver ändern (Empfehlung) [...]
- Möglichkeit: Alternative Domains (kurze Haltbarkeit) [...]
Alle möglichkeiten sind nach Browser oder Betriebssystem sortiert.
#onlinefilter #streaming #warez #cuii #isp #dns #sperren #yazumo