“A new spyware epidemic has broken out at government entities and NGOs in 23 countries including several organizations in the United States. And it’s not bogus Twitter links or porn that’s getting people this time—it’s PDFs that look like work.”
Evernote Saw First Signs Of Hacking On Feb. 28: Emails, Passwords And Usernames Accessed But Not Your Data Or Payment Details
“Evernote is requiring its nearly 50 million users to reset their passwords after the popular personal note-taking app became the latest high-profile victim of wide-scale hacking attempts. The breach follows malicious activity at Twitter, Facebook and others in recent weeks.”
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Google tests data compression proxy feature to speed up Chrome for Android, like Opera Turbo and Amazon Silk
“Google’s Chrome for Android team is experimenting with a new data compression proxy feature to speed up browsing similar to the methods used by Opera Turbo and Amazon Silk.”
Verizon Galaxy Nexus 4.2.2 (JDQ39) Update Hits Testers, New Radios Included – Droid Life
“Earlier this week, Verizon’s official Twitter support account made mention of a new Galaxy Nexus update on the horizon. In fact, they said it would be here “soon,” prompting a little excitement from the G-Nex crew. What we weren’t sure about was whether or not this would be a 4.1.”
Evernote forcing users to change password after hacking attempt
“Evernote, the popular cross-platform note taking and sharing app, has issued a statement about some recent “suspicious activity on the Evernote network”.”
How AT&T Is Planning to Rob Americans of an Open Public Telco Network
“AT&T has a sneaky plan. It wants to exploit a loophole in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s rules to kill what remains of the public telecommunications network — and all of the consumer protections that go with it.”
Apple vs. Samsung: Damages cut by $450 Million, new trial ordered
“Just when you thought the Internet was safe from the the Apple v. Samsung courtroom drama, it comes back. Today Judge Lucy Koh, who is presiding over not one but two (and possibly now a third) trials between Apple and Samsung, has ordered the to be cut by $450,514,650.”
Free Press: AT&T’s About to Make Broadband Market Much Worse – Severing DSL, POTS Lines Creates Major Issues
As I’ve been noting, both AT&T and Verizon have been busy trying to gut absolutely all regulatory oversight of those companies, in the process severing the DSL and landlines of tens of millions of users, who’ll have to flee to an even less-competitive cable monopoly, more-expensive and capped LTE service, or even pricier and more-heavily capped satellite broadband.
The gadget-obsessed press and incumbent-beholden regulators so far have napped through the implications of this, AT&T’s claim that regulations simply need to be “modernized” as we go all IP appears to have lulled most of them into a compliant slumber. This is however the biggest shift in telecom in the last thirty years, and it deserves more than the usual fringe attention broadband telecom policy receives.
Free Press Research Director Derek S. Turner has posted a good read over at Wired clearly illustrating what’s at state if the country dumbly plays along with AT&T’s efforts to sever the PSTN while killing off nearly all serious regulatory oversight of the industry giant. Namely, higher rates, seniors suddenly without landlines, and worse service:
Seniors, low-income families, and rural residents all of whom are more likely to rely on fixed-line voice services or dial-up internet access would especially feel the pinch. Carriers that are now required to offer universal service will be free to redline poor neighborhoods and disconnect consumers at will. Elderly grandmothers living on fixed incomes rely on rate-regulated landlines to stay connected, but they need not worry: AT&T has an expensive wireless plan they can purchase instead.
That sounds dramatic, but it’s a very real outcome. Turner doesn’t even get into the fact that AT&T and Verizon’s exit from the fixed-line broadband market creates a much stronger cable broadband monopoly, driving up costs for those users as well. All of this will be swatted down by paid industry pundits despite the fact that historically, you’d be hard pressed to find a time when deregulating AT&T didn’t make service considerably worse and more expensive for the end user.
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