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BGP: What is border gateway protocol, and how does it work?

Network World

One comparison likens BGP to GPS applications on mobile phones. IPv6 crossed this milestone late last year. In another well-documented incident, Pakistan Telecom, in its role as an ISP, attempted in 2008 to censor YouTube by advertising its own BGP routes to the site so users attempting to reach it would be blocked.

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What matters about Matter, the new smart home standard

The Verge

To answer some of these questions we’ve gathered information from published documents and talked to the companies that plan to support it and the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) that oversees Matter. This exposes them to hacking, malware, etc.,” Apple HomeKit. said Mitch Klein of Z-Wave Alliance.

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