This is an interview question that came up for me with a helpdesk role. There is technically no wrong answer to the question, but you can get very technical very quickly. The easiest answer is of course you type words onto your screen, hit the send button, and a lot of magic occurs. You could… Continue reading How Email is Sent
Tag: Networking
OSI Model Overview
I wrote a simple comparison of the TCP/IP and OSI models. The models are pretty important in IT because they describe how data goes from your computer screen to another device on the other side of the world. As networks and their requirements have gotten more complex so has the model that describes the internet.… Continue reading OSI Model Overview
The Onion Router and OP Tunisia
The Silk Road, ever heard of it? It was a website hosted on The Onion Router (Tor) network. If I remember correctly it was also one of the FBIs largest busts. Boiled down it was a platform for buying and selling drugs anonymously, and it was a pretty intricate platform. I never visited it myself… Continue reading The Onion Router and OP Tunisia