Привіт Люба this week’s paper by Facebook Research is a bit dated (2014) as you also feel when reading through it (as it uses Flash Player as research ground), but nevertheless I learned quite a…
Tag: security
Keeping the hackers out: 14 different methods to prevent account hijacking
Buna draga, traveling to another country, you might have faced it before: The anti-account-hijacking systems implemented by the various online providers. There is a wide range from entering your “secret” email address, double verifying via…
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How Cloudflare works…maybe
Using Cloudflare myself for my blog and my overall interest in DDoS protection draw me to this weeks paper. It discusses a design of an overlay network for DDoS protection. Quite interesting to learn about the considerations coming into play. Sure Cloudflare, Akamai, Google etc. evolved since then, but this paper gives quite nice fundamentals on how to design such a protection. Especially the computation powered puzzles is a nice concept (was programming one on the weekend actually)….most like Bitcoins proof of work 😉
How Firecracker microVMs work
Dear awesome person, I found this week’s paper while working on my thesis on an AWS Lambda related topic. If you ever wondered how the inner workings of AWS Lambda are and how the container/VM…
Borg+Vorta is finally a usable backup solution for Linux desktop
TLDR; After years of searching around I finally found a Linux backup setup that fits my needs: Borg + Vorta + BorgBase As long as I can think back, backing up my Linux system always…
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Digitale Schutzmaßnahmen für die Teilnahme an einer Demo / Digital Security for Protesters
Protect your digital life while attending a protest
How switching my parents over to Linux saved me a lot of headache and support calls
My approach for switching my parents to Linux