I found this map of the Internet on Wikipedia. It is based on early 2005 data. It is stated in the Wikipedia description: This graph represents less than 30% of the Class C networks reachable by the data collection program in early 2005. Image:Internet map 1024.jpg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia via kwout
Archive for the 'Network' Category
How to protect privacy with Bittorrent
Published by March 30th, 2008 in Bittorrent, Network, Software and p2p. 0 CommentsLifehacker blog published a very useful post, that lists the options available to protect privacy when using Bittorrent: Use PeerGuardian IP-Blocking application: This is not a bullet proof solution, as people or organizations monitoring the network could use any IP address. Anyway it’s a first level of protection. Use Tor or SSH Proxy to hide [...]
File Dropper: A new 5GB free file hosting Service
Published by March 25th, 2008 in Network, Software and Web. 1 CommentFile Dropper is a new file hosting service that offers 5 GB of free storage. This service looks simple: It’s 2 steps process, first upload your file, and second share your personal link. And the service is supposed to be less annoying than Rapidshare , as their about page states: FileDropper.com was created as a [...]
Proogly: Another anonymous web based proxy
Published by March 16th, 2008 in Network, Software and Web. 1 CommentProogly is a new anonymous web based proxy: Proogly Proxy via kwout I tested this web based anonymous proxy and it is quite fast. At least faster than TOR. Web based anonymous proxies are not a new thing on the Internet. But Proogly integrates Web 2.0/Ajax features (ability to hide almost completely the banner, disable [...]
Alec Saunders published an interesting post that describes how to do some quick data mining with Facebook. The starting point is to click on the advertisers link at the bottom of any Facebook page. Follow the steps as described by Alec up to the audience choice. That’s where the data mining can be done. For [...]
How to check if your computer is connecting to INTERNET without your acknowledge?
Published by September 22nd, 2007 in Network and Software. 0 CommentsDigital inspiration published a useful tip to check if your computer is connecting to the INTERNET without your knowledge. Of course in most case a firewall properly configured should notify any unexpected connection to the INTERNET. But in some special case, the method proposed by Digital inspiration is useful to track what’s going on in [...]
Three Debugging Proxies to decode HTTP and HTTPS streams
Published by May 30th, 2007 in Network, Programming, Software and Web. 0 CommentsThere are several ways to debug and analyze web applications. The first approach is to use network sniffers like wireshark. The problem with sniffers is that they are not so easy to use, and by default they capture all the network traffic. If the interest is only HTTP streams, it is required to add filters [...]
InformIT published a great article describing the way DHCP works. I reproduced below the 3 steps mecanism used to provide an IP address to a client: Like any process in computing, the DHCP resolution process is initiated by the client. It’s looking for an IP address, and probably since the system has just been booted, [...]
