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Fastvue is the company blog at fastvue.co, writing about security and programming. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “How Google's QUIC Protocol Impacts Network Security and Reporting”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Fastvue's posts on QUIC and HTTP/3, which cover how QUIC's encryption stops middleboxes from inspecting traffic and how some vendors respond by blocking QUIC. Comments cite them without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- How Google's QUIC Protocol Impacts Network Security and Reporting4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-06-30
What Hacker News says?
If you're already encountering blocks, I don't think you can assume there won't be blocks on QUIC unfortunately. Here are just a selection of vendors advice. There's plenty of them, and they are probably used by some schools, libraries etc. https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail?... > Our recommendations: > Palo Alto Networks recommends creating a security policy in the firewall to block the QUI…
Comment linking /fastvue/blog/googles-quic-protocols-security-and-reporting-implications/
on “QUIC and HTTP/3 Support Now in Firefox Nightly and Beta”Submitted How Google's QUIC Protocol Impacts Network Security and Reporting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's designed with almost everything encrypted so that middleboxes can't inspect the contents of packets and filter or change them. This is essential, as it's been found that middleboxes now break almost every kind of experimental protocol that's not shielded in this way. So it's designed very much to resist ossification and allow protocol evolution. Still, some vendors are adapting to QUIC by blocking QUIC: https:/…
Comment linking /fastvue/blog/googles-quic-protocols-security-and-reporting-implications/
on “Website Fingerprinting on Early QUIC Traffic”Submitted How Google's QUIC Protocol Impacts Network Security and Reporting as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat's because I wrote about QUIC & UDP in my previous post yesterday. https://inavoyage.blogspot.com/2026/06/5-things-to-lighten-d... https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-road-to-quic/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC#Client_support https://nordvpn.com/blog/what-is-quic-protocol/ https://www.fastvue.co/fastvue/blog/googles-quic-protocols-s... My writing is tangential as it is, so I try to keep the layers separate in d…
Comment linking /fastvue/blog/googles-quic-protocols-security-and-reporting-implications/
on “I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet”