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Vermont Telephone Company’s gigabit internet service is live, half the price of Google Fiber
Remember how Google Fiber’s recent announcement for planned service in Austin by 2014 spurred immediate competition from AT&T? It’s safe to say Original post on engadget.com Comments on reddit.com
PayPal Bans BitTorrent VPN – Proxy Service
After banning several of the largest file-hosting sites and Usenet providers, PayPal is now taking aim at a VPN/proxy service. The payment processor has just cut off the BitTorrent proxy provider GT Guard and frozen the company’s funds. In an email PayPal’s Brand Risk Management department explains that GT Guard’s affiliation with BitTorrent is the reason for the drastic actions. Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
Google Fiber: Rival data speeds increasing as Fiber forces competition
Google’s ultra-high-speed Google Fiber Internet service won’t be accessible to the bulk of Americans for quite some time, but the revolutionary service’s impact is already being felt even by those who don’t subscribe to the service. Original post on bgr.com Comments on reddit.com
AT&T getting secret immunity from wiretapping laws for government surveillance
Internal government documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center have revealed that the US Department of Justice is secretly helping AT&T and other service providers evade… Original post on theverge.com Comments on reddit.com
ISPs warned to ignore Google Fiber at their own peril
Remember how Time Warner Cable executives tried to claim that American consumers don’t actually want 1Gbps broadband connections? Well, InfoWorld’s Paul Venezia isn’t having any of it and says that ISPs who deny the challenge that Google Fiber represents are whistling past their own graveyards. Original post on bgr.com Comments on reddit.com
Former Google engineer builds service to stop companies from tracking people online
As advertising companies continue to push the boundaries of online tracking in an effort to woo clients with eerily accurate ad targeting techniques, online privacy is seemingly becoming a thing of the past. Original post on bgr.com Comments on reddit.com
AT&T announces plans for 1Gbps fiber service in Austin, Texas; Google gets immediate competition
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Apple’s iMessage encryption trips up feds’ surveillance – Politics and Law
Internal document from the Drug Enforcement Administration complains that messages sent with Apple’s encrypted chat service are ‘impossible to intercept,’ even with a warrant. Read this article by Jennifer Van Grove on CNET News. Original post on cnet.com Comments on reddit.com
Verizon Seeks to Abandon Landlines on Fire Island; Wireless or You Are On Your Own
Tweet Verizon officials have announced they will abandon their damaged wireline network serving several hundred permanent residents and businesses on Fire Island, replacing voice telephone service with a wireless system called Voice Link critics say will end high-speed Internet service and hurt business. Fire Island’s landline network has been barely functional since Hurricane Sandy struck [...]