Note: I am going to try and keep this as non-political as possible. Just weeks before the presidential election a New York newspaper published documents that they claimed belonged to Hunter Biden and documented supposedly potentially illegal business dealings he had in China and Ukraine (article here). I grew up in New York and even […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]5 Eyes Ask For Crypto Backdoor – Again Law enforcement does not like it if they cannot snoop whenever they want. It has been a problem since encryption started to be used by the masses. The CIA, for example, even went to go so far as to BUY the Swiss encryption company Crypto AG, insert […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The President signed an executive order a few months ago asking the FCC to look at whether social media companies like Twitter should lose their “section 230 immunity” if they are biased in their editing. It also asks the FCC to propose regulations regarding this. That was about six months ago. I suspect that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AT&T Ending Support for DSL Internet Connections AT&T stopped selling DSL Internet connections on October 1, 2020, leaving many users, who do not have access to other forms of Internet connection stranded. AT&T’s fastest DSL connection is 6 mbps, much slower than many other carrier’s DSL speeds which can reach 100 mbps, and only about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI has said for years that paying a ransomware ransom was a bad idea. It encourages the bad guys and funds their bad guy activities. But last week the decision became harder when the Treasury department said that they were going to add ransomware organizations that are connected to terrorist organizations to the list […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Republican administration, led by the current occupant of the White House has been trying for years to remove the protections that social media companies like Twitter and Facebook have. They seem to have a couple of hot buttons. One is end to end encryption which makes it hard for them to snoop on your […]
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