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A 5G future

O'Reilly

Back in the 1980s, Nicholas Negroponte said everything wired will become wireless, and everything wireless will become wired. Can 5G replace wired broadband, allowing one wireless service for home and mobile connectivity? I’d gladly give up my 50 Mbps wired connection for gigabit wireless. I don’t, do you?

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Ginseng: keeping secrets in registers when you distrust the operating system

The Morning Paper

Many mobile and IoT apps nowadays contain sensitive data, or secrets, such as passwords, learned models, and health information. wpa_supplicant , an OSS library commonly used to connect to wireless networks using WPA , reads a cleartext password from a configuration file or network manager and stores in in memory.