Weekly Recap – Startups, Tech..and more

Although Tor keeps your online activity private, but it’s not flawless. So, researchers at MIT have developed their own network called the ‘Riffle’, which uses a series of servers called a ‘mixnet’, that each switch the order of the packets being transmitted, making its point of origin untraceable. At least, that’s what they are claiming.

One of the major steps in reducing server load and faster loading of pages is to compress all files. Like you zip heavy files before emailing (I hope you do) in the same way Gzip compresses web files before transfer. In most cases you would save 50-70% of bandwidth with this.