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Kevin McDonald @sudorandom.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

This looks messier but this view is more honest about what this will look like. The seas around Europe look especially messy. I don't worry too much about my home office cable management after working with this data

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Kevin McDonald @sudorandom.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Here's Japan now. It's not perfect, but you can see just how many cables connect different parts of Japan. A lot of those cables were pretty compressed/overlapping with a more naive implementation

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Kevin McDonald @sudorandom.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

I used to be a projectionist, so I do think there are a lot of cool aspects of film projectors. The intermittent sprocket. The amount of data they were able to store on film. Dolby audio is literally encoded in the space between sprocket holes. It's insane.

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Kevin McDonald @sudorandom.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026

After attributing all prefixes in the global BGP table to their originating cities, I'm left with the results below. It may be a surprise to some people that a town of 50,000 people is indisputably the most important location for the internet but it […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

North America: 1,092,322,268 IPs
Ashburn: 80,073,721
Portland: 29,917,135
Chicago: 26,208,184
Dallas: 22,397,185
Atlanta: 21,047,144

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Kevin McDonald @sudorandom.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

Upcoming blog post schedule for the next month and some change. This might be the most productive I've been with this. I know my attention here won't last, but it has been fun so far. There's some big ones in here: - An ongoing series on HTTP/2 from scratch […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Feb 11, Feb 16, Feb 18, Feb 23, Feb 25, March 2, March 4, March 9, March 12, March 16, March 19, March 26

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Kevin McDonald @sudorandom.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2025

I added an "infinite" mode for wordseq. Now you're not limited to three puzzles a day! wordseq.com Try out my game, wordseq, where you try to find the longest sequence of words by swapping two letters at a time. Every move must make a new word. Can […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A screenshot of wordseq, showing a grid of scrambled letters that players must unscramble

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Kevin McDonald @sudorandom.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2024

I recently had a lunch/movie date with my wife and went to an Indian restaurant at a nearby mall because that's where the movie was being shown. The restaurant is called "Nameste" located in the Fisketorvet mall and the food was amazing. We also sat next to […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]