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Tag Archive | "ISP"
Surveillance Back Doors Built into Skype
Heise Online reports that there have been recent findings that suggest there are surveillance back doors built directly into Skype. While Skype refuses to comment directly on the findings by the community, at an ISP meeting on June 25th higher-ups at an unnamed Austrian ISP made the comment that spying on Skype-based phone calls was not [...]
Continue reading...War Against Internet Users, P2P Traffic and Piracy Begins
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Was browsing through Slashdot today and saw two interesting articles. It looks like nations, naturally under the guidence of the RIAA/MPAA and similar groups, are beginning to move ‘anti-piracy’ legislation forward. The first part of the problem is to give ISPs complete amnesty from pirated material, which will protect them from litigation and give them an [...]
Continue reading...Charter ISP To Begin Injecting Ads
Thursday, May 15, 2008
If you haven’t had your ear to the ground on the issue of ad-injection by ISPs, I’m about to get your blood boiling. Basically, ISPs are starting to dabble more and more with analyzing your behavior online and injecting ads into the pages that get served back to you, regardless of the actual content being served [...]
Continue reading...Virgin Media, Worst Than Comcast?
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
In the recent past it seems that Comcast has become the favorite ISP to hate with their constant manipulation of your traffic, illegal traffic tampering (OOPS, wait, nothing is illegal under Bush admin if done by a big enough corporation, full pardons all around!) and a general all around level of shit service… but it [...]
Continue reading...The True Cost of SMS Messaging
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
(Congratulations, that just cost you $0.20) The gthing science blog put together a rather eye-opening analysis of just exactly how much SMS costs you and/or how goddamn rich it’s making the phone companies. Even more offensive than the $8000 per gallon that HP and other vendors charge for black ink, gthing deduces that if you compare the [...]
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Saturday, July 26, 2008
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