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The Human Factor in the Geopolitics of the Internet

The Human Factor in the Geopolitics of the Internet

LOUIS PETINIAUD

20 min read

The Internet is a network of networks administered, controlled and shaped by humans. As such, it is as much affected by power relationships across the public and private actors as it, in turn, affects them. In this article, the team from GEODE explores the complex relations between the technical an…

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Intercept and Inject: DNS Response Manipulation in the Wild

Intercept and Inject: DNS Response Manipulation in the Wild

Yevheniya Nosyk

6 min read

In November 2021, Internet users from Mexico lost access to whatsapp.net and facebook.com. By the time the event was reported, the underlying problem had already gone unnoticed for quite some time. Here, we present key takeaways from our analysis of the event - carried out with RIPE Atlas - and we …

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Opinion: IP Leasing Should Become a Market Standard

Opinion: IP Leasing Should Become a Market Standard

Vincentas Grinius

8 min read

The policy of the Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Registry (APNIC) that does not accept IP leasing has been questioned during its recent meeting in conjunction with APRICOT. While each of the five global RIRs has its own policies regarding IP leasing, this opinion piece argues that the APNIC policy …

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Relax, It’s Just Networking (and humans are just complicated machines)

Relax, It’s Just Networking (and humans are just complicated machines)

Jacky Hammer

11 min read

With the next RIPE Meeting coming up, some of us might be dreading the networking we take ourselves to know less about: social networking. But its functions show inherent parallels to the base functions of computer networking. So accompany me to a deep dive on how the OSI layers relate to human com…

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Navigating the Complexities of BGP: Enhancing Security, Visibility, and Operability

Navigating the Complexities of BGP: Enhancing Security, Visibility, and Operability

Radu Strelciuc

16 min read

Explore the concepts and tools needed to ensure the stability and reliability of BGP networks. With a focus on security, visibility, and operability, this article gives an overview of configuring BGP, a complex protocol used to build and maintain the Internet.

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Detecting Waves with ShakeAlert

Detecting Waves with ShakeAlert

Marcel Flores

9 min read

When operating large, globally distributed networks, hardware failures, provider outages, and other changes in behaviour are regular occurrences. Systems that can raise alarms at the first signs of trouble can alert human operators or automated systems and enable faster corrective action. To this e…

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Plug and Plot: Reusable Visualisations for AS-Hegemony Data

Plug and Plot: Reusable Visualisations for AS-Hegemony Data

11 min read

This article presents a set of open-source tools - “reusable visualisations” - that extend the AS hegemony visualisations provided by the Internet Health Report. Users can directly use the online tools or embed the IHR data on their own posts, webpages, or Observable HQ notebooks.

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Security by Diversity: The Business of Security Through Diversity

Security by Diversity: The Business of Security Through Diversity

Fredrik Lindeberg

10 min read

With information security such a complex and fast-moving field, how can companies gather enough information to make informed decisions about what is right for their networks? What criteria should you look for, how do you evaluate systems, and how can you determine which methods will scale most effe…

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