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FCC: US Broadband deployment not on track
On Friday, the FCC released its seventh annual report on the status of broadband deployment in the United States, and the news isn’t looking good for broadband Internet Service Providers. The FCC’s report estimated that “26.2 million Americans living in more than 9.2 million households are unserved by broadband today” (p 15). In addition, on [...]
What Net Neutrality Means for You
Only four years after we were informed that the Internet isn’t a big truck, the FCC has passed some rules to formalize Net Neutrality, and the response has stirred up naysayers on both sides of the court. There are those who are coming to the defense of freedom on the Internet who insist that the [...]
Hexavalent Chromium found in US Water
CNN reported today that 31 of 35 cities tested by the Environmental Working Group had measurable levels of Chromium-6 in their water supply. Fans of the movie Erin Brockovich will recognize that Chromium-6 was the chemical that infected the water supply in a small California town that resulted in a huge payout from utilities provider PG&E. [...]
WikiLeaks, Cyber Attacks, the 1st Amendment
If you’ve been following any of the mainstream media as of late, I’m sure you’ve heard some mention of the WikiLeaks scandal that has had certain forces on the Internet teetering on the edge of an all-out brawl. For those who may not be in the know, please allow me to provide an overview of the [...]
P2P + Valdosta State = Police
As a student at the University of Georgia I can hardly stay quiet when some members of my University System of Georgia brethren are at a serious risk for false accusations. TorrentFreak, a website dedicated to news about file sharing, released an article yesterday explaining that Valdosta State University will be taking steps to help prevent their [...]
What is Session Hi-jacking, and why public wi-fi isn’t safe
I work for a web development company in Athens, and, as with anything that deals with the Internet, one of our chief concerns remains security. This includes making regular efforts to ensure that we’re using the latest server software, and that we utilize good programming practices to avoid malicious users being able to circumvent our [...]
Proprietary App Stores Bode Trouble for Android
It is rare that I find myself genuinely concerned when I read the tech news. I am quite often bemused, or even annoyed – but rarely concerned. However, today, I am concerned. On TalkAndroid today there’s an article discussing Amazon’s intent to open their own Android App Store. This article also brought it to my attention [...]
Here Endith the Jailbreak Honeymoon
Well it looks like the jailbreak honeymoon is over. Stories about how iPhone jailbreaking code could potentially be used to create iPhone rootkits have started surfacing. I can’t say I’m entirely surprised. Since the federal government ruled that jailbreaking was an exception to the DMCA copyright law, it has been getting coverage on major media [...]
Saudi Kingdom vs RIM
So I may be the only person that finds this concerning, but the Saudi government seems to want RIM, the company behind Blackberry, to have a physical server for their Blackberry Messenger service located in-country. For those who don’t know, BlackBerry’s internal network is entirely encrypted making it hard for governments to peek into for [...]
Library of Congress rules jailbreaking legal
Do you know what the Library of Congress did for you today? Ruled that jailbreaking an iPhone was not a violation of copyright as Apple has been claiming: The Library of Congress, which has the power to define exceptions to an important copyright law, said on Monday that it was legal to bypass a phone’s [...]
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