tl;dr: Over the past weeks, I’ve put together a Firefox add-on for SSL certificate pinning so I would notice if ever a man-in-the-middle would use forged certificates to spy on me when I interact with my home servers, banking websites, and so on. I feel a lot safer now again! You can find it here … Continue reading Certificate Pinning Is Back In Firefox!
In this day and age it rarely happens that I’m in libraries with poor Internet access. In most cases, library officials have recognized the signs of the times and installed a usable Eduroam Wifi network on their premises. The University of Vienna is a good example. But there are unfortunate exceptions as well. One of … Continue reading How To Tether When Library Wifi is Poor
Another year is coming to an end again so it’s time once more to have a look at which things have moved me this year and how technology has moved forward, or not. 5G – 5G – 5G If you visit this site every now and then you have probably noticed that 2018 has been … Continue reading Things That Moved Me In 2018
Quite a number of network operators are in the processes of shutting down their 2G or 3G networks or have already done so. A major example is AT&T who has switched off their 2G network back in 2017. In other words, they are now only running on their UMTS and LTE networks. So what will … Continue reading Thinking the Unthinkable: The End of Circuit Switching
We are quite a bit into January 2018 already and I still haven’t come around to reflect which things from back in 2017 ‘moved’ me. But finally here we go this is my 2017 round up from cellular to history.
There have been many attempts over the past two decades to compete with fixed line copper, coax and fiber installations with Wireless Broadband Fixed Access. Pretty much all of them have failed on a larger scale as technology over copper has evolved and fiber has been deployed in many places. But Verizon thinks Fixed Wireless … Continue reading Verizon Pushes Forward with mmWave Broadband Fixed Access
Going significantly beyond the capacity and geographic reach of current cellular LTE coverage in cities requires to bring the cells to where the people are: Inside buildings. From a technical point of view small cells could do the job, they are now small enough to be installed just about anywhere. From a practical point of … Continue reading Eduroam as a Model for Future Public Wifi Deployments
As Anandtech says ‘in a surprise move’ Intel has announced last week that they will discontinue their 60 GHz WiGig + Wifi + Bluetooth cards. As they were pretty much the only ones selling WiGig connectivity options for notebooks so far I can’t help but wonder if this move has just spelled the end for … Continue reading Intel Discontinues Their 802.11ad Notebook Cards – The End Of WiGig?
In a previous post I wrote about one mobile network operator in Germany now being on air with LTE with 65 MHz. So far, network operators have been in the comfortable position to add additional spectrum to increase their network capacity. But this game will come to an end pretty soon!
Like every year, time has flown and it is already end of December and thus time to look back at what has happened this year that has literally ‘moved’ me. This year I have three categories: Networks, Linux & General computing and Miscellaneous Other Things. Let’s start with a look back at my year in … Continue reading Things That Moved Me In 2016 – Part 1: Networks