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Ensh*tification of The Internet

29th October 2024 Going Postal 3282 Comments

I’ve just finished the first in a series of articles relating to the privacy and security of your electronic life. This has led me down some rabbit holes that are very worrying. Seriously scary. One [more…]

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The Internet

6th January 2018 El Cnutador 2222 Comments

“Commodore VIC-20” by Soupmeister is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 So there I was, at 16, with my Commodore 64, a Programmers Reference Guide and no assembler, translating assembly instructions into hexadecimal opcodes, by hand, [more…]

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The Internet is Simple, Part Four

13th September 2017 El Cnutador 0 Comments

“File:Stickmen Free Speech Oppression.svg” by JasonCarswell is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 You will probably want to read Part One, Part Two and Part Three of this series before continuing… The UK, of course, ever [more…]

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The Internet is Simple, Part Three

30th August 2017 El Cnutador 0 Comments

“File:PGP message.svg” by Cqdx is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 You will probably want to read Part One and Part Two of this series before continuing… We’ve talked about asymmetric and symmetric encryption keys here [more…]

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The Internet is Simple, Part Two

23rd August 2017 El Cnutador 2 Comments

“File:Route Aggrgation example (1)-en.svg” by Michel Bakni is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 You will probably want to read Part One of this series before continuing… Routers keep this mapping in a list for future [more…]

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The Internet is Simple, Part One

16th August 2017 El Cnutador 0 Comments

“TACC brain” by Ioannis N. Athanasiadis is licensed under CC BY 2.0 If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, And [more…]

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