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Ah yes, Kessler's space shredder, something to be feared by all satellites! It appears that we are very close to an unstoppable runaway process of collisions in space. On one hand,…

But you don't need the transparency! The whole transparency thing was added because we have hundreds of Certificate Authorities all over the world who would otherwise have the powe…

We could also just get rid of webPKI entirely? But you still need a public key for TLS? Well, just put it in DNS! And assuming your DNS responses are validated by DNSSEC, it would …

We already knew that the poorer countries are impacted worse by the IPv4 shortages. CG-NAT didn't solve anything but only delayed long enough to do even more damage. Now these alre…

Almost 50% according to google: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/ (But other measurement statistics project a lower value.)

Yes, it makes a difference: about 8 milliseconds. Properly implemented IPv6 has a lower latency. (and is more efficient, though i believe the energy savings are negligible) See thi…