One of the best demonstrations that an obsession with protecting copyright’s intellectual monopoly drives politicians insane is the French law known as Hadopi, an acronym for ‘Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des oeuvres et la protection des droits sur internet’ (High Authority for the Dissemination of Works and the Protection of Rights on the Internet). The Hadopi mechanism has been […]

IP Addresses Through 2025

https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2026-01/addr2025.html

#HackerNews #IPAddresses #Future #Internet #Technology #IPv6 #Networking

Just added Web Reachability API (at least that’s what I’m calling it) support to https://ip.small-web.org.

It’s for testing the reachability of your Small Web servers (using a domain or, more importantly, an IPv4/IPv6 address). I’m using it to implement Web Numbers¹ support in Auto Encrypt² and Kitten³.

Protocol:

• At http://<endpoint> return an empty HTTP 200 response that includes the following custom header: 'web-reachability-id': ‘<uuid>'
• Hit: https://ip.small-web.org/reach/<endpoint>/<uuid>/
• If you get a 200 response back, your endpoint is reachable. Anything else signals an error.

Enjoy! 💕

¹ https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
² https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt
³ https://kitten.small-web.org

#WebReachabilityAPI #WebNumbers #IpAddresses #reachability #Kitten #AutoEncrypt #SmallWeb #peerToPeerWeb #SmallTech

Lifehacker: This Tool Can Tell You If Your Home Network Has Been Compromised. “IP Check, from threat monitoring firm GreyNoise, will alert you if your IP address has been observed scanning the internet as part of a botnet or residential proxy network.”

GBHackers: New GreyNoise IP Checker Helps Users Identify Botnet Activity. “The newly released GreyNoise IP Check is a simple, web-based tool that allows anyone to instantly verify whether their internet connection is being used by a botnet or a residential proxy network.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/29/gbhackers-new-greynoise-ip-checker-helps-users-identify-botnet-activity/

Research: Italy’s Piracy Shield Is Just As Big A Disaster As Everyone Predicted

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/14/research-italys-piracy-shield-is-just-as-big-a-disaster-as-everyone-predicted/

"This huge #databreach is why I'll never provide my #ID #online"

https://www.makeuseof.com/this-huge-data-breach-is-why-ill-never-provide-my-id-online/

On October 3, 2025, Discord revealed that a third-party #customerservice, #Zendesk, attached to its chat platform was #breached, exposing the #data of many of its users—no specific number was provided at the time.

The data included names, #Discord usernames, and email addresses, #IPaddresses, messages with #customer agents, and limited #billing information.