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Comment · 3 years ago
Small, less complex protocols are inherently less likely to be insecure all things being equal, simply due to reduced attack surface.

DNS was created for a different environment, at a time when security wasn't at forefront so it's not a good example of the opposite.

Comment · 3 years ago
DNS is from 1983, give it some slack
Comment · 3 years ago
Another reason to keep foundational protocols small. HTTP/2 has been around for more than a decade (including SPDY), and this is a first time this attack type surfaced. I wonder what surprises HTTP/3 and QUIC hide...
Comment · 3 years ago
I‘m sure comcast is terrified that their users won’t be able to read my blog.
Comment · 3 years ago
If the one doing the blocking is not at FAANG it would do nothing of sorts. And FAANG benefit from DDoS by getting people into their walled cloud gardens.
Comment · 3 years ago
Great solution for a world without shared and dynamic ips.
Comment · 3 years ago
Those movements are extremely animal-like, to the point of being unsettling (despite that I want a robot like that for myself)
Comment · 3 years ago
That's because many corporate "donations" are not so much a donation as a way of soft-buying a feature.

It's hard for businesses hyperfocused on short-term gains to understand a long-term value of, for example, supporting an alternative for an industry-dominating Adobe toolkit. But the value is there.

Comment · 3 years ago
And embedded systems (cars and stuff)...
Comment · 3 years ago
That's just sad. Open Source support really needs to be normalized in corporate environment. Now it's more of an exception than the rule.

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