Now that the problem of user account “sidejacking” can no longer be ignored, I’ve created an online services report card that highlights which websites protect your account and which don’t.

If you thought forcing SSL would protect you from Firesheep, you’d be wrong. Even running SSL on Google, Facebook, and Twitter still leave you vulnerable to account hijacking because they have javascripts that leak authentication cookies in the clear.

We been told countless times that the United States has a lagging broadband infrastructure compared to other first world nations. But how is it that the U.S. leads in broadband data consumption second only to South Korea? The answer seems to lie in abundant and inexpensive server and core Internet capacity.

Steve Jobs turned up at Monday’s Apple earnings call to take some shots at his competitors. His heaviest guns pointed at Android, where he contrasted “the real difference between our two [Apple v. Google] approaches”:  “Android is very fragmented. Many Android OEMS . . . install proprietary user interfaces to differentiate themselves from the commodity [...]

Matt Lassar of ArsTechnica argues why Traffic Pumping scams are a good thing by quoting the scammers.

High speed traders are getting a huge advantage from a low latency managed network and high speed computers. This has upset some people and they seem to want it all stopped. But is that really good for the economy, jobs, and innovation?

BoxTop will offer a free broadband service and it will work on your TV set. The service will be subsidized by application providers.

We’re probably going to run out of unassigned IP addresses in 2012, but nobody seems to care and they’re not doing anything about it. The problem is that the visible benefits of IPv6 are few and the challenge of deploying it are hefty.

I was asked to explain the concept of network latency using something other than geek talk, so I created this tutorial explaining what is bandwidth, latency, and jitter. The following is a short 7 minute video I posted on YouTube.

The Khan Academy has quickly become one of the most valuable resources in online education ever, and Google has contributed a generous $2 million to help this worthwhile cause.