stackyFACTSNormally, web browsers ask for a page and immediately hang up the phone. WebSockets refuse to disconnect, keeping an open, demanding pipeline so servers can shove live chat messages at you without waiting to be asked.
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Making a call over the internet feels high-tech, but the Session Initiation Protocol under the hood looks exactly like old web page code. It essentially sends…
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Your online banking protection hinges entirely on the hope that nobody is good at prime factorization. TLS encryption secures your data simply because…
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If you setup an old POP3 email account, your phone will greedily hoard all your messages. By default, the protocol downloads your inbox and immediately…
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Your smart thermostat does not send huge reports. It uses MQTT, an incredibly lightweight protocol that just blindly shouts tiny updates into a central…
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The system running your inbox is incredibly gullible. Standard SMTP allows anyone to type whatever email address they want in the 'From' field, which is…
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Waiting for error-checking is out of style. The newest HTTP standards use QUIC, which builds on top of inherently unreliable datagrams to load YouTube videos…
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