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End-to-End Encryption: A Privacy Victory or a Networking Blind Spot?

Views: 852TLS 1.3, QUIC, HTTP/3, encrypted DNS, and Encrypted Client Hello increasingly conceal application and transport information that network operators traditionally used for troubleshooting, security inspection, filtering, performance optimization, and policy enforcement. Here is a little reference chart: This produces two defensible but conflicting positions: For most of the Internet’s history, and certainly for my

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Do VPN applications really protect your traffic, and if so, what exactly are they doing to my packets?

Views: 3,299Yes, VPN applications do protect your traffic. A VPN is like wearing a costume or a mask because it masks your real identity and location (for the most part anyway), just like a costume or mask hides who you are in real life. That said, someone sold you the mask, so they know who

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Network/IP Commands for Windows Users

Views: 20,329Here is a list of interesting/useful network/IP commands for Windows. Most of these commands must be run from the CMD app. To do this Open Command Prompt: In the search bar, type cmd and press Enter, or press Win + R to open the Run dialog. Administrative Privileges: In some cases you will need

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Keeping VPN SA’s Refreshed in Cisco IOS

Views: 1,588Many people are using VPN technology today to ensure data confidentiality between remote locations. When using a site-to-site type VPN (say between a Router and a Firewall), a common complaint among end users is intermittent delay before VPN traffic is successful. This is usually due to Security Associations (SA) becoming too old requiring a

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