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NetcoreNetwork retweeted
A lot of commentary on this is blaming internet connectivity itself, which is throwing out the baby with the bathwater (sad, wrong).
If you want to remotely access a smart fridge, you should: a) have to prove authority and authenticity in a trustless way (decentralized networks can help you here) and b) access the data directly from the fridge via an encrypted p2p tunnel. Also, permission to listen doesn’t need to mean permission to control.
Not every problem, but many begin with how communication occurs over the internet. For a message to get from Device A to Device B, it’s often a multi-hop process that requires reliance on third-parties for things like identity, coordination, and storage. Every hop and third-party reliance adds a set of vulnerabilities. For a simplified example, if you use Google as an identity provider and Google has an outage or gets hacked, you won’t be able to get your message through even though your devices may both be online and working.
The fix lies in stripping out dependencies and reducing data flows to only exist when necessary between authorized parties. This minimizes attack surfaces and maximizes signal-to-noise ratio.
Two critical characteristics of a better system:
1. Identity without a central gatekeeper. You control your identity through cryptographic keys. A decentralized network coordinates connections and acts as the trustless authority.
2. Encrypted communication between devices. A peer-to-peer layer connects devices directly whenever possible, with end-to-end encryption. When a relay is necessary due to difficult network topologies, it forwards encrypted data without being able to read it.
The headline next week will likely be something that sounds different, but has the same underlying pattern.
BREAKING: 🇫🇷 A major cyberattack has hit supermarket refrigeration systems across France, reportedly causing fresh and frozen food to spoil after hackers remotely manipulated temperature controls.
According to BFMTV, the attack began overnight from Sunday into Monday, targeting older versions of refrigeration-control software supplied by Danish company Danfoss.
The attackers allegedly exploited the systems’ defrosting function, forcing refrigeration equipment to heat continuously instead of keeping products cold. Temperatures were reportedly set as high as 50°C, destroying entire stocks of food within hours.
Several major supermarket chains have been affected, including Intermarché, Super U and E.Leclerc. Metro stores and independent businesses, including butcher shops also have been impacted.
Around 150 Intermarché stores are reportedly affected, according to industry sources cited by BFMTV. The full number of affected locations remains unclear.
The financial damage is already significant. In Haguenau, Alsace, an Intermarché store reportedly lost its entire frozen-food stock, worth approximately €50,000. A nearby Super U allegedly had to discard both fresh and frozen products, with losses estimated at €220,000. An E.Leclerc store in the same town was also affected, although its losses had not yet been calculated.
The combined losses reported at the Intermarché and Super U stores in Haguenau alone amount to around €270,000. Nationwide damage could reach several million euros.
Intermarché reportedly confirmed the incident in an internal communication, warning that several stores had suffered losses of frozen products. Coopérative U also acknowledged the attack and established crisis teams to assist affected stores and coordinate with refrigeration specialists.
Technical investigations are ongoing, and the full extent of the damage has yet to be established.
Authorities and companies are still working to determine the full circumstances of the attack. The identity of the perpetrators has not been confirmed.
NetcoreNetwork retweeted
Really simple, direct p2p use cases of late. Ada is my cofounder's tortoise that we're keeping an eye on while he's travelling, and the directory I'm sharing has a few videos and a photo that I wanted to get to another coworker without a reduction in quality.
Features:
- free
- zero backend/cloud/third party
- encrypted, direct connections between devices
The connections appear local (you can see the localhost ports they're assigned), but are actually traversing NATs across different networks. This is automatically handled by Causeway.
The file sharing was just one line in my terminal to expose a directory on my laptop. I couldn't message or email the videos because the individual files were too big and would have to be compressed, so this allowed my coworker to download them directly from my machine at their native quality.
NetcoreNetwork retweeted
all of this is accurate. the architecture genuinely is excellent.
the one thing worth knowing is that Tailscale's control plane is still theirs.... the mesh is peer-to-peer but the coordination layer isn't. if that matters to you (and for a lot of teams it increasingly does) the true self-hosted path is worth looking at.
we built @netcore_inc around the same WireGuard + mesh primitives but with no third-party coordination. curious what the thread thinks about that tradeoff.
NetcoreNetwork retweeted
And when you want to access with multiple devices or remotely without your data leaving devices.. you need @netcore_inc
NetcoreNetwork retweeted
What is the ULTIMATE privacy stack?
Everything starts with @netcore_inc imo
NetcoreNetwork retweeted
This here is why distribution and decentralization are VITAL design principles. Simple as that
🚨 BREAKING: IRAN IS BOMBING AMAZON AWS DATA CENTERS
Today, Iranian missiles hit Amazon’s main Middle East data center and went offline
12 hours later:
>SECOND data center in UAE just lost power
>Bahrain also hit
>AWS Bahrain now OFFLINE >“localized power issues”
>AWS officially told customers to failover to OTHER REGIONS
>“don’t rely on Middle East infrastructure right now”
Remember:
>Anthropic runs on AWS
>Claude was used in the Iran strikes
>Iran is now retaliating
ITS OVER
NetcoreNetwork retweeted
Most connected systems today rely on centralized backends for coordination. This is not because centralized control is ideal, but because direct device-to-device communication is difficult. Firewalls, NATs, changing IP addresses, and heterogeneous networks make it hard for devices to discover each other and stay reachable, so coordination is pushed into cloud-hosted services by default.
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NetcoreNetwork retweeted
Things I’d consider:
- store files in a distributed fashion across the peers using them. Reduces latency and the AWS bill. Also improves privacy.
- version control and file history could leverage peer replication and, again, reduce AWS bill
- p2p assisted collaboration for local teams, only falling back on centralized servers when necessary. UX will feel even faster because you go from 2 hops (you—>centralized servers—>coworker) to 1 hop (you—>coworker)
That’s just the beginning. Improve resilience and performance, reduce costs.