In March, a delegation of experts from five different organizations focused on child safety on the Internet and personal data protection from Bosnia and Herzegovina visited our Association.
Safer Internet Day in the Czech Republic: introducing new project and market unification
The CZ.NIC Association used the Safer Internet Day to introduce its new project, aimed at children´s safety online. The CZ.NIC Association acts as a coordinator of the project that started on 1 January 2019, another partner is the Safety Line, ensuring the operation of a helpline. CZ.NIC will continue operating the Czech national hot-line STOPonline.cz, which received a record number of reports last year.
Not all registries are the same, or: Experience is priceless
Last November I had the privilege to visit NIC Costa Rica, our counterpart in that small Central American country. There is a much smaller team working in the local NIC, which takes care of about 28,000 domains for the administration of which our FRED system has been used since 2011.
A behind-the-scenes look at the production of Turris MOX cases
From the beginning of the development of the Turris MOX router, we have faced a difficult task –how to assemble the modular system so that it does not collapse during handling and, at the same time, make it as user friendly as possible when the user deciders to disassemble and reassemble it. You will be able to find out whether we have accomplished this task or not in the coming weeks when the first MOXes in cases arrive to their users. In the following article, I would like to introduce you to the development and production of the final case of our new product.
2018 At STOPonline.cz In Numbers
Last year brought a record number of incidents to STOPonline.cz. While in 2017 the line received 1,397 reports, in 2018 there was already 2,445 of them, that is 75% more.
Almost All .CZ Domains Are Ready for The February DNS Maintenance
A global DNS maintenance is scheduled for February 1, 2019, and authoritative server operators must get ready for it. That is why we dedicate our today’s article to the state of readiness of .CZ domains for changes that will be effective from the beginning of next month.
The Czech Republic has taken the first step towards using electronic IDs abroad
Less than half a year since the launch of new electronic national ID cards, the Czech Ministry of the Interior provided their detailed description to other Member States and initiated the process leading to their mutual recognition abroad under eIDAS.
Data from routers map connection speed
One of the less known advantages of the Turris router is the possibility to verify quality of Internet connection, the so-called QoS (Quality of Service), i.e. especially to measure the download and upload speed, IPv6 support, DNSSEC and parameters connected with net neutrality. Such a measuring may serve to analyse the use of the line and to evaluate whether paying a high speed fee is unnecessary. The experience of the Turris router users shows that the majority of their time online is spent in the slowest zone (0-250 kbps). Moreover, even when the majority of data is transferred in higher speed, fast operation may have only a tiny representation from the time´s point of view. Especially those who do not spend a lot of time watching videos pay extra for high speed connection for a relatively short time of use, mainly for the moments it takes to load a page or download and send an e-mail.
Reinstalling Openldap in CZ.NIC
At the beginning of the year, a need arose to reinstall the LDAP, which had been running in CZ.NIC on an older OS, and I figured I did not want to miss such an interesting “challenge”. And I was very excited about it until I realized that the same server was, as a “bonus”, probably, running Freeradius and Radsecproxy with a connection to Eduroam. Of course, this was also to be rewritten as the syntax between the versions Freeradius v2 and v3 had changed a little bit. Only then I understood and admired the patience of people who set these things in CZ.NIC before me and I know that they have “enjoyed” this quite a lot. But this is a topic for another day, as this blog post should be about installing LDAP. I emphasize that this article discusses only basic LDAP settings.
From the life of an online wanderer
Today, I would like to go back to the topic I brought up in my earlier blog post. At that time, I was horribly angry at the administrators of photo sharing servers. I was angry at the absence of better mechanisms to check the photos people upload. Why don’t they have a person who would take a look at them? Why don’t the make the albums private by default? I could go on, but after almost two years of what seemed like fighting windmills, I have realized one thing. It’s not the administrators’ or providers’ fault — everyone is responsible for their own actions.