Tag Archives: ISP

Thu 9th April 2015
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Nevada Would Like To Regulate Internet Traffic - Nevada wants to be the first state to regulate Internet traffic, in an article on USA TODAY, Anjeanette Damon, Reno (Nev.) Gazette-Journal gave the details. The one take away from the article was that critics and security experts believe the bill would actually aid what it is hoping to prevent. The bill is being pitched as a help with Cyber Security. From the article: Nevada could become the first state in the nation to mandate the physical route government data takes as it travels the Internet ... read more ...
Sat 28th March 2015
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AT&T Plans To Watch Where You Go Online - ATT may be able to out do Google when it comes to serving targeted ads according to an article on Ars Technica. Apparently ATT watches everything that their customers do. In some areas you can pay more apparently and that allows you to get some privacy back. From the article: If you have ATT’s gigabit Internet service and wonder why it seems so affordable, here’s the reason—ATT is boosting profits by rerouting all your Web browsing to an in-house traffic scanning platform, analyzing your ... read more ...
Sat 7th March 2015
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I pronounced it before Canada is not messing around when it comes to Spam - Back in September of 2014 I wrote an article on DomainCrunch.com that Canada was not playing around when it comes to spam. A Canadian law that targets spam email could have a big impact on Boston-area companies that use email marketing. Starting July 1, the law makes sending commercial messages to a Canadian resident without their express consent very costly. According to the legislation, the maximum penalty per violation for an individual is $1 million per violation, and for a business, it is $10 ... read more ...
Sat 17th January 2015
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Republican Net Neutrality Bills Would Strip FCC Of Its Power to Regulate The Net - Gizmodo published a piece on Republican legislation that could neuter the Federal Communications Commission, and leave consumers with no one watching their back vs the interests of telecom companies. President Obama recommended a plan that would reclassify internet providers under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, giving the government agency more authority to quash telecom giants’ plans to create “internet fast lanes.” This would seem to go around that and take away the power the FCC ... read more ...
Tue 25th November 2014
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Symantec Discovers “Regin” A Sophisticated Piece of Malware - Symantec has discovered a piece of malware that has been used to spy on ISP’s and telecom companies that they say was most likely by a government agency. They did not say which government. The malware looks to have been created back in 2008, paused and then started back up. Recode wrote about the news: Computer security researchers at Symantec say they have discovered a sophisticated piece of malware circulating the world that appears to be used for spying at Internet service and telecommunications ... read more ...
Fri 17th October 2014
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Is Microsoft a Self Appointed Sheriff of a Internet ? - Robert McMillan of Wired did an interesting piece on how Microsoft became the self appointed Sheriff of the Internet. The article starts off detailing the facts in the case of  No-IP. Apparently Microsoft had noticed that an unusually high amount of malware was going out to domain from No-IP.org. It was 7 o’clock in the morning when the knocking on Dan Durrer’s front door woke him up. His dog started barking, and Durrer thought he was getting an early morning package. But when he opened the ... read more ...
Sun 8th June 2014
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Google Looking To Create Satellite Network - Tim Beyers at Motley Fool wrote a piece on Google looking to blanket the entire world with some form of broadband. The company is looking to spend upwards of $3billion to develop and launch Google satellites in orbit. From the article: According to The Wall Street Journal, Google CEO Larry Page is authorizing between $1 billion and $3 billion for developing and launching 180 small Google satellites into low-Earth orbit. The idea is to supply Internet access via craft similar to (but smaller than) ... read more ...
Thu 5th June 2014
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One Hilarious Look during Net Neutrality - There has been a lot of talk about Net Neutrality and for most this is a topic that gets a bit boring. John Oliver from the HBO series “Last Week Tonight” has put a very funny, sarcastic and layman spin on the topic. John explains without Net Neutrality his start up Nut Flix has no chance. There is also a call at the end to contact the FCC and apparently it has worked. NPR  reported over 45,000 comments. ... read more ...
Tue 14th January 2014
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Net Neutrality Ruled Unenforceable - Net Neutrality looks like it could be in danger of being defeated. From NPR: In a landmark ruling Tuesday, a federal appeals court has struck down key parts of the Federal Communications Commission’s open-Internet rules, effectively ruling that the federal government cannot enforce net neutrality. Put more simply, it can’t require that Internet service providers treat all traffic equally. In a , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said the agency’s rules had no basis in federal ... read more ...