Default Passwords Led to $55 Million in Bogus Phone Charges
The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against three Filipino residents accused of hacking into thousands of private telephone networks in the United States and abroad, and then selling access to those networks at call centers in Italy that advertised cheap international calls.
Amazon’s cloud was struck by lightning earlier this week. And that’s the truth.
On Wednesday evening at about 6:30pm Pacific time, some Amazon cloud sitters saw their floating servers disappear – and yes, the company blamed the temporary outage on a lightning strike.
BT is tired of the BBC and other video sites getting a “free ride” on its networks.
Last week a row erupted between BT and the BBC, after it emerged that BT was choking iPlayer streams on some of its broadband packages, which the broadcaster said was hurting viewers’ ability to watch television online.
John Petter, managing director of BT Retail’s consumer business, has now accused the BBC of getting a “free ride”.
ARGH! Se en nesposobn isp, ki se ne zaveda, da prodajanje high-badwidth paketov, pomen da bojo ljudje ta bandwidth tudi uporabljal, in da si more tud zagotovit infrastrukturo za to. Zakaj ne prodajajo potem kr 10gbit pakete, katerih hitrost uporabniki nikoli ne bodo mogli dosežti (čeprav bi teoretično lahko)…. Ahja…Content provider ma svojga net providerja katermu placuje za svoj bandwidth. Userji placujejo BT-ju za svoj bandwidth. BT je pa precej ocitna “jokica” (ker njihovga iptvja userji nocjo gledat) in spara na infrastrukturi. U eri FTTH-ja smo! Na njihovem mestu bi poslau BT v qrac…. sam pac… to je ocitno njihov problem, jst pa sam rabm zrantat cez use to.
The French Hadopi legislation passed last month introduced draconian measures to combat piracy, including a “three strikes” regime for persistent copyright infringers. However, France’s highest constitutional authority today ruled that Internet access is a fundamental human right and killed the three-strikes provision.
Ja.. men se je tud čudn slišal, sam očitno je res. Zato, da ne bi otroci gledali pr0na, bo moral na vseh računalnikih na kitajskem biti instaliran poseben software. Uprašanje je le, katere druge strani (razen pr0na) bo software blokiral, in kaj še (razn blokiranja strani) lahko software počne (spyware?).
