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Making messaging interoperability with third parties safe for users in Europe

Engineering at Meta

Implementing an end-to-end encrypted protocol First, we need to protect the underlying security that keeps communication on Meta E2EE messaging apps secure: the encryption protocol. WhatsApp and Messenger both use the tried and tested Signal protocol as a foundational piece for their encryption.

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Threads has entered the fediverse

Engineering at Meta

You can send an email from a Gmail account to a Yahoo account, for example, because those services support the same protocols. Building Threads on an open social networking protocol gives people more freedom and choice in the online communities they inhabit. What is ActivityPub? Federating quote posts Take quote posts as an example.

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Behind the scenes with Stream Live, Cloudflare’s live streaming service

CloudFaire

To communicate with us, they choose a protocol such as RTMPS (Real Time Messaging Protocol Secure), SRT (Secure Reliable Transport), or WHIP (WebRTC-HTTP ingestion protocol) that defines how their content is packaged and transmitted. Each of these protocols is a way to transmit audio and video frames with various tradeoffs.

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Facebook’s historic outage, explained

Kentik

Yesterday the world’s largest social media platform suffered a global outage of all of its services for nearly six hours. The result was that users worldwide were unable to resolve any domain belonging to Facebook, effectively rendering all of the social media giant’s various services completely unusable. 24 and 129.134.30.0/23.

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Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app

Engineering at Meta

That’s because email is interoperable and these two companies both conform to the SMTP protocol for delivering emails. But you can’t do that today on social media. We are working on the ability for Threads to integrate with ActivityPub , the open, decentralized social networking protocol.

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How to find applications with NetFlow

Kentik

You can also learn about the protocols in use, the ports being used, the top interfaces, etc. Perhaps you want to know if the traffic you are investigating is related to video streaming, voice or social media. IP protocol. Source port for UDP or TCP, 0 for other protocols. If it’s possible, wouldn’t you like to know?

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CTS 343: Exploring Wi-Fi Security and Encryption

Clear to Send

Hit us up on social media or leave a comment below. Hit us up on social media or leave a comment below. Whether you’re a network admin or just curious about your home Wi-Fi security, this episode has something for everyone. Check it out in the show notes! Got questions? Check it out in the show notes! Got questions?