In an interesting turn of events, Republican US Senator Roger Wicker’s staff has written a draft federal privacy bill. It’s main goal is to overturn California’s privacy law that goes into effect in January. Of course, there are only 28 days between now and January 1, so I would be really surprised if the bill […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Huawei Ban – Is It A National Security Issue or Bargaining Chip? Back in May, President Trump issued a ban on US companies buying from or selling to Huawei (see here). Since then, the government has issued an extension to the ban 90 days at a time and the government just issued another extension. They […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SmarterASP.net, a web hosting provider with over 400,000 customers, was infected by ransomware over the weekend. They are, at least, the third provider to be hit by such an attack. Affected user web sites are down and the company’s website was also down. Customers logging in might see a directory listing that looks like this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Comcast Testing Encrypted DNS While Lobbing Against It Encrypted DNS (either DoH or DoT) has become a political hotbutton. Recently Vice reported that Comcast is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying against it. Mozilla is writing to Congress saying that what Comcast is saying is not true and most interestingly, Comcast is testing its […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is really an informational piece, along with some whining on my part, since there is not much you can do about this. The FCC today approved the merger between Sprint and T-Mobile, thereby reducing the number of cell carriers from 4 to 3. The republican members of the FCC said that history not withstanding, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No, this is not an Apple-bashing post, just coincidence. The problem could just as easily happen to an Android user. The short answer to the question in the subject of this post is, apparently, at least according to the courts in London. Here is the story. Jemima is a digital convert. She is a resident […]
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