ARPANET Created in Arlington on May 17, 2011

It's official. The ARPANET was created in Arlington on May 17, 2011 at 4:08 pm!

Well, according to the video screen in the picture below that is.

After the Ruskies launched Sputnik, the United States government decided that technology research and development would probably be a good priority. The blog post from earlier today goes into that history. Inside of ARPA was an office called Information Processing Technologies Office (IPTO) - they were in charge of computer and network research. Larry Roberts was the Chief Technologist of IPTO - basically the project manager of something called the ARPANET. Funding main frame computers at the universities, Larry Roberts wanted to build a network between those computers in order to share resources and research. In 1969, in California, the first packets were transmitted on the ARPANET between UCLA (Leonard Kleinrock) and Stanford (Doug Engelbart). Packet switch computer networks had been born.

Pictured at the podium is Stephen Lukasik, ARPA Chief from 1970 to 1975 (in 1979 Lukasik would join the Federal Communications Commission, make a tremendous contribution to something known as the Computer Inquiries proceeding, and work with Michael Marcus to help establish unlicensed radio spectrum (ie WiFi)). Mr. Lukasik was present at today's Arlington County Board meeting as the County unveiled a new historic plaque which will be placed at 1400 Wilson Blvd in Rosslyn, the home of ARPA at the time.

By 1972, it was clear that the ARPANET would not be enough. The ARPANET could not interconnect with other networks. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn set to work creating the Internet Protocol, a new network that could interconnect networks and support all the cools stuff on the ends. In 1981, the Department of Defense decided that its new Defense Digital Network would use this Internet Protocol, and the Internet was born. In 1985, the National Science Foundation would expand the Internet outside of the military community to the non-military academic community with the NSFNET. This proved wildly popular, and in the early 1990s NSF privitized NSFNET, opening the Internet up to the public for everyone to use.

The Internet starts with the ARPANET and the ARPANET starts in an office in Arlington, Virginia.

Today, Arlington County unveiled its new historic marker, acknowledging this tremendous historic event that had its inception in Arlington.

Stephen Lukasik was joined by fellow ARPA colleagues (from left to right) Robert Young, George Lawrence, Steve Lukasik, Eric Willis, Francis Niedenfuhr. Also featured in the picture holding the plaque that spells out ARPANET in binary is Christopher Zimmerman, chairman of the Arlington County Board.

The historic marker reads:

"The ARPANET, a project of the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense, developed the technology that became the foundation for the Internet at this site from 1970 to 1975. Originally intended to support military needs, ARPANET technology was soon applied to civilian uses, allowing information to be rapidly and widely available. The Internet, and services such as e-mail, e-commerce and the World Wide Web, continues to grow as the under-lying technologies evolve. The innovations inspired by the ARPANET have provided great benefits for society."

For more on the history of the Internet, see Cybertelecom :: Internet History

Arlington Invented the Internet!!

Actually... it did. And today at 3:30 the Arlington County Board will be recognizing this historic achievement.

The roots of the Internet go back to something called the ARPANET. ARPANET was a project of a special office in the Pentagon, ARPA, which had as a mission high tech research. ARPA was born after the Ruskies launched Sputnik, shaking the United State's nerves. Pres. Eisenhower realized the importance of technology for the security of the country, and set about rectifying the perceived disadvantage of the United States in terms of technology.

ARPA's mission was to develop missiles and space flight, and to develop IT research. Well, it was then decided that the missile and space flight stuff should go off to a civilian agency: NASA. ARPA proceeded to advance information technology research under the leadership JC Licklider and then Larry Roberts.

At about this time - and as is common with innovation - three different groups invented packet switching (the underlying technology of the Internet)

• Don Davies in England experimented with packet switching, but for his work to advance, his packet switch networks would have had to been built by the British Postal System.
• Paul Baran working for RAND under contract with the Air Force was very very concerned about how fragile DOD's command-and-control communications network was. The US communications network was a hub-and-spoke designed network. Take out the hub and you can take out the entire network. He wanted to move to a distributed network that was resilient and could transmit a reliable "Go / No Go" message to the troops. Baran recommended that DOD revise its entire communications network. DOD's communication network was run by analogy switched network engineers who had no interest in Baran's non-feasible ideas. And the idea died.
• Larry Roberts at ARPA was funding Big-Iron main frame computers at different universities across the United States, supporting IT research. If he gave the X100 to MIT and then the X200 to Stanford, MIT would scream that it wanted the X200. And then if he gave the X300 to Carnegie Mellow, Stanford and MIT would both scream. Everyone wanted the latest and greatest. Roberts wanted them to share. He wanted them to share the hardware and he wanted them the software and research. To achieve this, he needed a network. This would be the ARPANET.

In 1969 two things happened. The United States landed a man on the moon. And the United States transmitted the first packets on the ARPANET. One was on the front page of every newspaper everywhere. The other received no coverage whatsoever. Both radically changed our world.

Paul Baran, whose work was to design a network that would survive nuclear war, attempted to change the entire DOD establishment, and failed. Larry Roberts, in a skunkworks project, attempted initially to network 4 computers. Then 12 computers. And he succeeded.

At about 1970 ARPA moved its office from the Pentagon to Rosslyn (both in Arlington).

ARPA was an experimental office. It was like a venture capital office. It started things. It did not maintain them. In 1971, when ARPANET was an established success, Larry Roberts approached AT&T and said, "hey, we have this packet switching network. We really arent in the business of running networks. Why dont you take it and we will be your anchor tenant." AT&T declined, seeing no role for packet switching in their business plan. Larry Roberts wrote,

I went to AT&T and I made an official offer to them to buy the network from us and take it over. We'd give it to them basically. Let them take it over and they could continue to expand it commercially and sell the service back to the government. So they would have a huge contract to buy service back. And they had a huge meeting and they went through Bell Labs and they made a serious decision and they said it was incompatible with their network. They couldn't possibly consider it. It was not something they could use. Or sell.

Nerds 2.0.1 : A Brief History of the Internet by Stephen Segaller, p. 109 (TV Books 1998)

In 1972, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn began working on a new project known as the Internet Protocol that would provide for greater interconnection between packet switched networks. In 1973 Larry Roberts left ARPA to form Telenet, the first commercial packet switched network. In 1975, the Defense Communications Agency at DOD (the office that had turned Baran down) took over operational control of the ARPANET from ARPA. In 1981, the Defense Communications Agency concluded that it needed to migrate from ARPANET to a new Defense Digital Network, and selected Cerf's and Kahn's Internet Protocol for the network. The Internet was born.

For the rest of the story, see the Internet History at Cybertelecom.

It's good to see Arlington recognize this tremendous historic moment that took place on Arlington soil. Hopefully this will serve as an inspiration to Arlington schools to fully embrace and advance information technology and the important roll it places in our student's future. Arlington is, after all, where the ARPANet was conceived.

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Michael Powell and Cable's Commitment to Education, NCTA
Change is good. That, at least, is the mantra. And despite human nature's natural misgivings about change, it's probably true.
http://www.cabletechtalk.com/schools-and-education/2011/05/13/michael-powell-and-cable%e2%80%99s-commitment-to-education/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/cable.htm

FCC's Stance on GPS/LightSquared Drawing More Heat; Tests Show Interference, Inside GNSS
Pressure is mounting on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and proponents of LightSquared's plan to operate high-powered ground transmitters in spectrum adjacent to GPS L1
http://www.insidegnss.com/node/2589
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/gps.htm

IPv6 Usage Now at 10 Percent, Internet News
Interop panel explains how we get to IPv6. Don't worry about your printers -- yet.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/Nxk3AM1wrY8/3933506
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

IPv6 traffic study results - May 2011, Global Crossing
In a recent Global Crossing European backbone traffic analysis conducted by Global Crossing engineers we discovered that only an extremely small percentage of the total traffic was IPv6 (a tenth of a percent). What's more, essentially none of the traffic was native IPv6; it was all encapsulated inside of IPv4 packets (a.k.a. tunneled).
http://blogs.globalcrossing.com/?q=content/ipv6-traffic-study-results-may-2011
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

EPIC Sues Federal Trade Commission for Details on Spy-Fi Investigation, EPIC
EPIC filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission over the agency's failure to disclose to EPIC information about the FTC's decision to end the Google Spy-Fi investigation. EPIC is specifically seeking documents that the FTC widely circulated to members of Congress and their staff that provide the basis for the agency's
http://epic.org/2011/05/epic-sues-federal-trade-commis.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/google.htm

Next Verizon CEO Talks FiOS Expansion - Aiming for 20 Million, Waiting on Housing Reversal, dslreports
Chief Operating Officer Lowell McAdam will replace current Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg sometime before the end of this year. Seidenberg was a fairly fierce believer in the company's FiOS fiber to the home effort, expansion of which is currently on hold as Verizon waits for a full economic recovery, and tries to nab a bigger slice of the USF pie. About 40% of the
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Next-Verizon-CEO-Talks-FiOS-Expansion-114236
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/verizon.htm

PROTECT IP Would Gut Parts Of The DMCA's Safe Harbors [Updated], Techdirt
We've been covering the newly released "son of COICA" censorship bill, now renamed the PROTECT IP Act, this week, breaking the news of the summary version of the law as well as posting the full text. However, as people dig deeper into the text, it looks worse and worse. In fact, I have to apologize, because I think I got fooled by the summary text into believing the
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110512/12451914251/protect-ip-would-gut-parts-dmcas-safe-harbors-updated.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm

The Senators Who Say Merely Linking To Certain Sites Should Be A Felony, Techdirt
I wrote earlier about how the new PROTECT IP Act guts parts of the DMCA, but as you dig deeper, it's looking even worse. The original (and now updated) article focused on the use of the term "interactive computer service," which was in a draft copy of the bill. At the last minute, that was changed instead to be "information location tool." While, at first, this may seem to
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110513/11210514265/senators-who-say-merely-linking-to-certain-sites-should-be-felony.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm

Public Knowledge Statement On Introduction of PROTECT-IP Act, PK
"This bill has a new name, but it's mostly more of the same. The new PROTECT IP bill, like its predecessor, alters the landscape of legal protections for Internet use in the name of cracking down on 'rogue web sites.'
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/z_nd_NgGq98/public-knowledge-statement-introduction-protect-ip
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm

Senate bill gives feds power to order piracy site blacklisting, Ars Technica
Senate anti-piracy legislation introduced Thursday would dramatically increase the government's legal power to disrupt and shutter websites "dedicated to infringing activities."
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/senate-bill-gives-feds-power-to-order-piracy-site-blacklisting.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm

Legal Guide Updated With D.C.'s New Anti-SLAPP Law, Citizen's Media
We're pleased to announce that we have updated the CMLP Legal Guide on the District of Columbia's anti-SLAPP law to incorporate its brand new anti-SLAPP statute that came into effect on March 31, 2011. A SLAPP, or "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation," is a lawsuit filed in retaliation for speaking out on a public issue or controversy.
Legal Guide Updated With D.C.'s New Anti-SLAPP Law
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm

Google Adds News Near You — Newspapers Still Nowhere, Gigaom
An announcement from Google on Friday that it has added a feature called "News Near You" to the mobile version of its news platform isn't that surprising; the regular web version of Google News has had a similar feature since 2008. But the move is another step toward offering news that is personally relevant to readers, something newspapers and other media
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/OTliasUTyZc/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm

Netflix, Miramax finally sign streaming deal, CNET
The streaming service will now have access to "Pulp Fiction," "Scream," and other prominent films from the Miramax catalog of titles.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20063155-17.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/video.htm

FCC Commish defends ethics after taking Comcast/NBC lobbyist job, Ars Technica
In an editorial last week, the New York Times said that "Ms. Baker's swift shift from regulator to lobbyist for the regulated will only add to Americans' cynicism about their government. The fact that it is legal and that she is just one of many doesn't make it better."
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/fcc-commish-defends-ethics-after-taking-comcastnbc-lobbyist-job.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm

Do Not Track for Kids Act: Good Idea Raises Real Challenges, CDT
ast Friday, Reps. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Joe Barton (R-TX) introduced House Bill 1895, the Do Not Track Kids Act of 2011, which would amend the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and introduce additional provisions to govern the collection and use of teens' personal information. (You can find CDT's unofficial redline, reflecting the changes
http://cdt.org/do-not-track-for-kids
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/

Operators of Online "Virtual Worlds" to Pay $3 Million to Settle FTC Charges That They Illegally Collected and Disclosed Children's Personal Information, FTC
The operators of 20 online virtual worlds have agreed to pay $3 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule by illegally collecting and disclosing personal information from hundreds of thousands of children under age 13 without their parents' prior consent
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/05/playdom.shtm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/coppa.htm

Congressmen Demand Answers From Facebook, Huffpo
Lawmakers are once again pressuring Facebook to explain its privacy policies after a report revealed a Facebook security vulnerability mistakenly gave third parties, including advertisers, a way to access to users’ profile information.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/12/facebook-security-flaw-markey-barton_n_861136.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/socialnetworks.htm

U.S. Outlines Cybersecurity Initiative, NPR
Under the plan, private companies that manage the nation's "critical infrastructure" would be required to submit detailed plans showing how they can defend themselves against cyberattack. The federal government would then have the authority to approve or reject the proposals.
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/12/136250408/obama-lays-out-cybersecurity-plan?ft=1&f=1019
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/

White House Proposes Cybersecurity Plan, NPR
Among other things, the White House wants Congress to create a law that requires businesses to inform consumers in case of a data breach.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/05/12/136248087/white-house-proposes-cyber-security-plan?ft=1&f=1019
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/

White House Cybersecurity Plan: What You Need To Know, Huffpo
The White House has unveiled its proposal for far-reaching cybersecurity legislation that seeks to shore up the country's defenses against a growing number of threats to personal privacy, critical infrastructure, and the government's computing systems.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/12/white-houses-cybersecurity-plan_n_861382.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/

How bin Laden e-mailed without being detected, Globe and Mail
He had no Internet access. But a meticulous system involving a courier allowed al-Qaeda leader to stay in touch worldwide without leaving any digital fingerprints behind
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/vVs0ldTWxHs/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/email.htm

FCC Releases Text of VoIP Outage NRPM; Latency, Jitter Proposed as Reporting Triggers, Telecom Law Monitor
As we discussed previously, the FCC is proposing to extend outage reporting obligations to interconnected VoIP providers, broadband Internet access providers and to Internet "backbone" providers. With the release of the text of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, we now know the specific triggers the FCC is proposing to use for these providers.
http://www.telecomlawmonitor.com/2011/05/articles/broadband-1/fcc-releases-text-of-voip-outage-nrpm-latency-jitter-proposed-as-reporting-triggers/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/fcc.htm

FCC Proposes to Require Interconnected VoIP and Broadband Service Providers to File Outage Reports, Telecom Law Monitor
As we noted earlier this week, the FCC is moving ahead to expand its reporting obligations for telecommunications outages. Touting the outage reporting rules as a 911 service protection, the FCC proposed to expand its outage reporting rules to require interconnected VoIP and broadband Internet service providers to submit reports to the FCC, as wireline, wireless, cable and satellite providers must today. Indeed "resilience" and "reliability" were the buzzwords of the presentation before the Commission
http://www.telecomlawmonitor.com/2011/05/articles/compliance-filing/fcc-proposes-to-require-interconnected-voip-and-broadband-service-providers-to-file-outage-reports/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/fcc.htm

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Koch Brothers Can't Abuse Trademark & Hacking Laws To Sue Satirical
Critics, Techdirt
The Koch Brothers have been the center of a lot of attention over the
past year or so, for their funding of a variety of political efforts
that are often described as "right wing" or "libertarian" (tragically,
some people seem to think these two things are synonymous, when they
are not). Either way, you would think that if the Koch Brothers really
were so staunchly libertarian, as
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110510/02091314225/koch-brothers-cant-abuse-trademark-hacking-laws-to-sue-satirical-critics.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm

Utah Court Strikes Blow for Free Speech, Dismisses Trademark and CFAA
Claims Against Political Activists, EFF
As we've noted before, many trademark owners are none too happy when
political activists use their marks as part of a larger statement
about the owners' business or political practices. Sometimes, that
unhappiness takes the form of improper legal threats and even lawsuits
designed to silence critical speech. In a ruling issued today, a
federal judge called a halt to one such
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/utah-court-strikes-blow-free-speech-dismisses
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm

Newport News Holding Corp. v. Virtual City Vision, 4th Cir
Affirming lower courts grant of Summary Judgement to plaintiff on
Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act claim, where Defendant
altered content of website from one which demonstrated a total absence
of competition between the two sites - to new content which competed
closely with plaintiff
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10290906611629346909
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/acpa.htm

Verisign and Coalition for ICANN Transparency, Inc. ("CFIT") Resolve
Litigation, Verisign
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet
infrastructure services for the networked world, announced today that
it has entered into a Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release with the
Coalition for ICANN Transparency, Inc. ("CFIT"), CFIT's members, and
specified related parties that resolves the over five-year long
https://press.verisign.com/easyir/customrel.do?easyirid=AFC0FF0DB5C560D3&version=live&prid=755133&releasejsp=custom_97
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/icann.htm

Comcast subscribers can no longer reach The Pirate Bay directly., Ars Technica
Comcast subscribers can no longer reach The Pirate Bay directly.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/comcast-subscribers-can-no-longer.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rssamp;comments=1
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm

For Microsoft, Skype Opens Vast New Market in Telecom, NYT
In agreeing to pay $8.5 billion to buy Skype, Microsoft is embracing a
technology that is transforming the way people communicate at home and
at work.
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=c71a59c9a0ae32249950acd637103890
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/skype.htm

Microsoft to Acquire Skype, Skype
Combined companies will benefit consumers, businesses and increase
market opportunity
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AboutSkype/~3/fs7a64sfu5E/microsoft_to_acquire_skype.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/skype.htm

Twitpic Modifies Terms and Claims Exclusive Rights to Distribute
Photos Uploaded to Twitpic, Tech & Marketing Law
I posted about the dispute between a photographer and Agence
France-Presse over images AFP allegedly downloaded...
http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2011/05/twitpic_modifie_1.htm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm

Copyright Group Sues 23,000 BitTorrent Defendants, Wired
At least 23,000 file sharers soon will likely get notified they are
being sued for downloading the Expendables in what has become the
single largest illegal-BitTorrent-downloading case in U.S. history.
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/UfpTdD58-Zo/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm

23,000 Sued For Illegally Downloading The Same Film, Huffpo
In what could be the largest illegal downloading case in U.S. history,
approximately 23,000 BitTorrent users are expected to receive notice
this week that they are being sued for illegally downloading the
action film "The Expendables."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/10/expendables-bit-torrent-download-case_n_860048.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/p2p.htm

Internet News Soars, Ad Revenues Follow, USTelecom
According to a new study Americans are more engaged with the news than
ever before – and the Internet is responsible for driving this trend.
Analysis from the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows 41% of
Americans receive the majority of national and international news
online, marking a 17 percent jump in a single year. And for the first
time, more people said
http://www.ustelecom.org/Video_Blogs/Blog/index.php/2011/05/10/internet-news-soars-ad-revenues-follow/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm

Google, Drudge, Facebook the major drivers for news sites, Lost Remote
Social media and search are emerging as the driving force behind how
people visit media websites. A report by the Pew Project for
Excellence in Journalism shows us how people find online news. The
study looked at the top 25 news websites. Among the project's
findings: Google is the primary driver of traffic. It accounts [...]
Related posts:
http://www.lostremote.com/2011/05/10/google-drudge-and-facebook-are-the-major-drivers-for-news-sites/
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Future of Media: Lots of Questions, But No Easy Answers, Gigaom
The Columbia School of Journalism released a massive report on Tuesday
that looks at the current landscape of digital media — the small and
the large, the mainstream and the alternative — and finds what will
come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the industry: disruption
and confusion, and a notable lack of any obvious solutions. Although
there are hints of
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/1CH6WIG54ec/
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FCC Chairman Applauds Colleague Departing to Become FCC Lobbyist, Wired
What's more revolting: FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker
resigning to become NBC-Comcast's top lobbyist, or FCC Chairman Julius
Genachowski applauding the move? Vote now.
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/e3K7YglKuFU/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm

FCC Regulator To Join NBCUniversal--4 Months After Approving Merger, Huffpo
A top telecommunications regulator who voted to approve Comcast
Corp.'s takeover of NBCUniversal in January is leaving to join the
company as a lobbyist.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/11/meredith-attwell-baker-comcast-nbcuniversal_n_860889.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm

Regulator to join Comcast after supporting NBC deal, Globe and Mail
Comcast said it did not begin discussions with Meredith Attwell Baker
about a possible job until after the transaction had closed
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/sReCyn6cfr4/
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Best Wishes to Commissioner Baker, USTelecom
"Commissioner Baker brought an extraordinary level of talent,
commitment and knowledge of communications to the commission, and we
will miss her. We are grateful for her public service, for her fair
and even-handed approach, and for the time and effort she spent in
seeking to thoroughly understand each of the major issues facing our
industry. We wish her much success in her new career with
NBCUniversal."
http://www.ustelecom.org/Video_Blogs/Blog/index.php/2011/05/11/best-wishes-to-commissioner-baker/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm

AT&T Statement on Commissioner Baker's Departure from FCC, AT&T
"The FCC, the industry, and American consumers have greatly benefitted
from Commissioner Baker's dedication to public service and her
extensive knowledge in communications policy. We are sorry to see her
leave the Commission but we wish Meredith all the best and we look
forward to continuing to work with her in her new capacity."
http://attpublicpolicy.com/fcc/att-statement-on-commissioner-bakers-departure-from-fcc/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm

After approving NBC buyout, FCC Commish becomes Comcast lobbyist, Ars Technica
Meredith Attwell Baker, one of the two Republican Commissioners at the
Federal Communications Commission, plans to step down—and right into a
top lobbying job at Comcast-NBC.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/after-approving-comcastnbc-deal-fcc-commish-becomes-comcast-lobbyist.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm

FCC Commissioner Baker Joining Comcast/NBCU, Telecom Law Monitor
Today, FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker announced that she is
resigning from the Commission as of June 3, 2011. The Los Angeles
Times is reporting that she will join Comcast as Senior Vice President
of Government Affairs for Comcast's newly acquired NBCUniversal unit.
Baker voted to approve that merger in January. Her departure already
has
http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TelecomLawMonitor/~3/t99dzk9_Fos/
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Senate panel grills Apple, Google on location data, Globe and Mail
Smart phone makers say users have plenty of options available to
control tracking
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/COMBZ-Zy4dQ/
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Senators Grill Apple, Google Over Privacy, Huffpo
At a senate hearing today, Apple and Google defended themselves
against allegations that the companies do an inadequate job of
protecting user privacy on mobile devices.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/10/senate-privacy-hearing_n_860269.html
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Our Senate testimony on protecting Android users' privacy, Google
This morning I'll be testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee
about the important issue of mobile privacy. You can read my full
testimony here or watch a webcast of the hearing here starting at 10
a.m. EDT.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/uIRz6o6phrk/our-senate-testimony-on-protecting.html
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Facebook profile access 'leaked', BBC
Security firm Symantec has discovered a authentication flaw which has
potentially leaked access to thousands of Facebook profiles to
advertisers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/technology-13358293
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/socialnetworks.htm

Griffin v. State of Maryland, Court Appeals MD
Myspace page cannot be authenticated simply by fact that it has
person's photo and DOB on it
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=4904843973173906376
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/socialnetworks.htm

White House to unveil cybersecurity proposal, Globe and Mail
Proposed legislation focused on improving security for critical
infrastructure, government's networks and computers
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/Z4MfWmU1xH4/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/

New Department of Justice Documents Fail to Justify Expanding CALEA, EFF
Earlier this month the FBI, DEA and the Department of Justice Criminal
Division responded to our FOIA litigation for records related to the
Department of Justice's controversial efforts to push Congress to
expand the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA).1
Although the agencies stated in their court filings (here, here, and
here) that they had
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/newly-released-documents-fail-provide
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Causing Damage Without Authorization: The Limitations of Current
Judicial Interpretations of Employee Authorization Under the Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act, William and Mary Law Rev
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) has recently been described in
various publications as "another arrow in the quiver" of legal options
for employers to use against former employees, a way "to put some real
teeth into your complaint," and a "gap-filler"
http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3382&context=wmlr
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North Carolina's Broadband Buffoonery Gains Attention - Unfortunately,
Only After Time Warner Cable Victory, dslreports
For years we've covered how multiple states have passed legislation
blocking towns and cities from wiring themselves with broadband, even
in cases where nobody else would. Such bills became less popular over
the years as the public and broader press became away of what was
going on, though that awareness came after nearly a dozen states
passed laws either banning or constricting community broadband rights.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/North-Carolinas-Broadband-Buffoonery-Gains-Attention-114186
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/states/nc.htm

PUBLIC FORUM, PANELISTS SLATED FOR MAY 18 OMAHA FIELD WORKSHOP ON
MODERNIZING UNIVERSAL SERVICE FOR BROADBAND., FCC
No description
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-306412A1.pdf
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LightSquared GPS Concerns Taking Flight, GLG
The GPS interference issues revolving around LightSquared seem to be
narrowing down to aviation uses of GPS equipment. While air safety
cannot be compromised, plans are already in place to mitigate risks
while the GPS industry has time to make the changes suggested by the
FCC for several years.
http://www.glgroup.com/News/LightSquared-GPS-Concerns-Taking-Flight-53888.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/gps.htm

How to Check Your Car for a GPS Tracker, Wired
It used to be that only the CIA, James Bond and Spider-Man had the
technology necessary to attach a tracking device to a vehicle and keep
tabs on it wherever it goes. But now that GPS trackers are cheaper
than TV sets, everyone from local police to car rental companies are
getting into the act. And with the Obama Administration urging the
Supreme Court to allow warrantless GPS tracking, the number of
vehicles trundling
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/_JE0chA4IAc/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/gps.htm

Groups Ask FCC To Investigate Broadband Data Caps, PK
Public Knowledge and the New America Foundation's Open Technology
Initiative (OTI), told the Bureau that, "Caps on broadband usage
imposed by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can undermine the very
goals that the Commission has committed itself to championing."
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/srzCYJmIIsY/groups-ask-fcc-investigate-broadband-data-caps
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm

56% of Americans have Internet data caps; FCC asked to investigate, Ars Technica
Two prominent Washington DC tech policy groups have asked the Federal
Communications Commission to investigate Internet data caps in the
US—with a special focus on AT&T.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/56-of-americans-have-internet-data-caps-fcc-asked-to-investigate.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm

Emerging Trends in E-Government, Pew
Senior Research Specialist Aaron Smith will discuss "Emerging Trends
in E-Government" on a panel at the Digital Citizen Satisfaction Summit
in Washington, DC.
http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2011/May/Digital-Citizen-Satisfaction-Summit.aspx
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/

In DHS Takedown Frenzy, Mozilla Refuses to Delete MafiaaFire Add-On, Circleid
Not satisfied with seizing domain names, the Department of Homeland
Security asked Mozilla to take down the MafiaaFire add-on for Firefox.
Mozilla, through its legal counsel Harvey Anderson, refused. Mozilla
deserves thanks and credit for a principled stand for its users'
rights.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110506_dhs_takedown_frenzy_mozilla_refuses_to_delete_mafiaafire_add_on/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm

9th Circuit Hears Two Key Cases About DMCA Safe Harbors: IsoHunt And
Veoh, Techdirt
Last week, a single three judge panel from the 9th Circuit appeals
court heard two key appeals concerning the DMCA, and specifically the
DMCA's safe harbors for service providers. Lawyer Michael Barclay
attended both appeals and has an excellent report and analysis of
each. It's not always easy to read the tea leaves of which way judges
are leaning on appeals like this, but based on both appeals, and the
details of both cases, if I had to guess, I'd say that the appeals
court will uphold both lower court rulings, even if this seems
slightly contradictory.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110509/00313914201/9th-circuit-hears-two-key-cases-about-dmca-safe-harbors-isohunt-veoh.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm

Warhol iconography on web time, Virulent Word of Mouse
Web-time is faster. That is no secret. More people participate in more
sharing of information in more places at a greater speed. Faster,
quicker, bigger, wider. More people in more places communicate and
share more information.
http://virulentwordofmouse.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/warhol-iconography-on-web-time/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/

For News Sites, Google Is the Past and Facebook Is the Future, Gigaom
When it comes to attracting visitors, Google is still a far more
important source of traffic for major news websites than social media,
according to a new study by the Pew Research Center, but Facebook in
particular is climbing in importance, and has already become a
significant driver of pageviews for some sites. Among its other
findings, the study also reinforces how much work even the leading
news websites still have to do when it comes to building engagement
with their readers and convincing them to stick around once they
arrive at their news pages.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/hKHAVDXejZA/
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Navigating News Online, Pew Research
Whatever the future of journalism, much of it depends on understanding
the ways that people navigate the digital news environment—the
behavior of what might be called the new news consumer.
http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/navigating_news_online
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Facebook helps drive online news readership, study finds, Globe and Mail
Referrals typically come from links posted by friends or from 'like' buttons
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/k5THiHwFSsc/
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Rogers Vice Chair Says Netflix Should Face Canadian Regulatory
Obligations, Geist
Rogers Vice Chair Phil Lind has told Cartt.ca that Netflix should face
Canadian regulatory obligations, though he declined specify precisely
what they should be.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MichaelGeistsBlog/~3/kBbeAhR5cCg/
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Sen. Rockefeller to introduce online do-not-track bill, CW
A U.S. senator says he plans to introduce an online do-not-track bill.
http://rss.computerworld.com/~r/computerworld/news/feed/~3/KZQ7KxggQEI/Sen._Rockefeller_to_introduce_online_do_not_track_bill
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Congressmen Release 'Do Not Track Kids' Bill, Huffpo
A draft House bill with bipartisan support would prohibit companies
from tracking children on the Internet without parental consent,
restrict online marketing to minors and require an "Eraser Button"
that would allow parents to eliminate kids' personal information
already online.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/07/do-not-track-kids-bill-re_n_858955.html
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FBI Vehicle-Tracking Device: The Teardown, Wired
Ever wondered what the inside of an FBI vehicle-tracking device looks
like? We got our hands on the one of the surveillance devices found on
the car of an environmental activist. Our friends from iFixit opened
it up.
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/BWDaLzHv9_o/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm

Valentine v. NEBUAD, INC.,, NDCA
Order Denying Motion to Dismiss California Computer Crime Law and
California Invasion of Privacy Act cause of actions
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15211981887053180842
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/ecpa.htm

VoIP Outage Reporting Makes May FCC Meeting Agenda, Telecom Law Monitor
It has taken nearly a year since the FCC's Public Safety Bureau first
started laying the groundwork, but the FCC is poised to consider
expanding its outage reporting rules to cover interconnected VoIP
communications and broadband Internet access providers. The
Commission will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to extend the
outage reporting rules at its May 12 Commission Meeting.
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Broadband Brings Telecommuting Benefits, USTelecom
A look at the modern workplace makes clear that broadband is an
essential part of our 21st century infrastructure, fueling our
business communications on a daily basis. But beyond the email and
online chat that keeps colleagues connected, the high-speed Internet
is enabling the rapid growth of telecommuting and teleconferencing.
http://www.ustelecom.org/Video_Blogs/Blog/index.php/2011/05/04/broadband-brings-telecommuting-benefits/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

After botched child porn raid, judge sees the light on IP addresses,
Ars Technica
Several recent government raids on computer users suspected of sharing
child porn online hit the wrong targets. Instead of getting the
perpetrators, some of the raids nabbed a neighbor with an open WiFi
network instead. One obvious
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/after-botched-child-porn-raid-judge-sees-the-light-on-ip-addresses.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm

Al Franken Makes Senate Stand for Net Neutrality, Save the Internet
Sen. Al Franken took to the Senate floor late Wednesday to call on his
colleagues to reject a House effort to take away our most basic Net
Neutrality freedoms.
http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/11/05/05/al-franken-makes-senate-stand-net-neutrality
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

FCC chief to Congress: Leave Net neutrality alone, CNET
CNET has learned that Chairman Julius Genachowski will warn that
repealing controversial regulations will "hurt job creation."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20059917-281.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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FCC chairman defends net neutrality rules, CW
House Republicans say existing antitrust laws are enough to protect
broadband customers from selective blocking by providers.
http://rss.computerworld.com/~r/computerworld/news/feed/~3/TvvA71RTiIA/FCC_chairman_defends_net_neutrality_rules
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Exhausted IPv4 address architectures, CAIDA
In light of available data on global IPv6 deployment, ISPs, and those
who build equipment for them, have already accepted that multi-level
network address translation (NAT, between IPv4 and IPv6 networks) is
here for the foreseeable future, with all its limits on end-to-end
reachability and application functionality, and its required
unscalable per-protocol hacks. Whether
http://blog.caida.org/best_available_data/2011/05/03/exhausted-ipv4-address-architectures/
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ARIN is A-OK with sales of IPv4 addresses, Network World
But be warned, even if you have lots of IPv4 addresses, experts say
IPv6 will still affect you
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/73420
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China Creates New Agency for Patrolling the Internet, NYT
The State Internet Information Office will regulate every corner of
the nation's vast Internet community, a move that appeared to
complement a continuing crackdown on political dissidents.
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=c3270143e670e68eb0ed02cfc945a3e0
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A Syrian Man-In-The-Middle Attack against Facebook, EFF
If you are in Syria and your browser shows you this certificate
warning on Facebook, it is not safe to login to Facebook. You may wish
to use Tor to connect to Facebook, or use proxies outside of Syria.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/syrian-man-middle-against-facebook
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Feds Demand Firefox Remove Add-On That Redirects Seized Domains, Wired
The Department of Homeland Security has requested that Mozilla, the
maker of the Firefox browser, remove an add-on that allows web surfers
to access websites whose domain names were seized by the government
for copyright infringement, Mozilla's lawyer said Thursday. Mozilla is
refusing.
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/-pi9FSVIe90/
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Senator Wyden Warns That Domain Seizures And COICA Undermine Internet
Freedom, Techdirt
Senator Wyden continues to be one of the few politicians actually
concerned about the impact of the government's expansive view towards
seizing domain names and stifling speech online. His latest is to
point out that Homeland Security's strategy with these domain seizures
appears to be completely in conflict with the State Department's
position on internet freedom, as laid out by Hillary Clinton.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110504/12103214143/senator-wyden-warns-that-domain-seizures-coica-undermine-internet-freedom.shtml
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A Vaster Wasteland?, VOA
Is the Internet Better, or Worse, Than TV?
http://blogs.voanews.com/digital-frontiers/2011/05/05/a-vaster-wasteland/
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FCC Process Reform Hearing Date Set, CommLawBlog
A couple of weeks ago we reported about Congressional interest in FCC
process reform, and the likelihood that hearings on that subject might
be just around the corner. And sure enough – the Communications
Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee has announced
that it will hold a hearing on FCC Process Reform, May 13 at 9:30 a.m.
(if you're in town and want to pop in for a look-see, stop on by Room
2123 in Rayburn Building).
http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/CommLawBlog/~3/8IU5C6zw6kA/
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California to Consider Do Not Track Legislation, Freedom to Tinker
This afternoon the CA Senate Judiciary Committee had a brief time for
proponents and opponents of SB 761 to speak about CA's Do Not Track
legislation. In general, the usual people said the usual things, with
a few surprises along the way.
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/aleecia/california-consider-do-not-track-legislation
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Digital Privacy and Your Smartphone, Citizen's Media
There has been substantial controversy over the past couple of weeks
arising out of revelations that some smartphones, most notably Apple's
iPhone and Google's Android devices, have been logging certain
location-based information. Lawsuits have been filed, a state
attorney general has started demanding answers, and an inquiry by a
U.S. Senate subcommittee has been scheduled. And then the South
Korean
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenMediaLawProject/~3/Yn_PzSjoGYg/digital-privacy-and-your-smartphone
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How to avoid sharing personal info online, CNET
The recent breach of Sony's PlayStation Network shows the value of
supplying Web sites with disposable e-mail addresses, temporary credit
card numbers, and flat-out bogus private data.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-20058903-68.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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Court Says Prosecutors Can't Just Assume A MySpace Profile Is Legit, Techdirt
A murder lawsuit in Maryland involved some evidence from a MySpace
profile (allegedly from the defendant's girlfriend, attempting to
intimidate witnesses). A police officer went to the profile and
printed it out, but prosecutors did nothing else to authenticate that
the MySpace profile and the comments on the page were legit and placed
by the girlfriend. A lower court
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110502/11270814118/court-says-prosecutors-cant-just-assume-myspace-profile-is-legit.shtml
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Assange: Facebook Is Most Appalling Spy Machine Ever Invented, Huffpo
In an interview with Russia Today (RT), Julian Assange called Facebook
the "most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/julian-assange-facebook-is-spy-machine_n_856313.html
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The Sony Wake-up Call: Time to Get Serious About Data Protection,
Ecommerce Times
Most of the talk about protecting users' privacy on the Web has
centered on preventing the collection of information that would aid
companies in creating targeted ad campaigns. I appreciate the efforts
of all those people -- from the myriad consumer watchdog groups to
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/72399.html
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FTC Testifies on Data Security, FTC
Agency Settles With Two Firms That Allegedly Failed to Protect
Consumers' Personal Data
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/05/security.shtm
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FBI Chastised by Court for Lying About Existence of Surveillance Records, EFF
An order last week from the U.S. District Court for the Central
District of California has revealed the FBI lied to the court about
the existence of records requested under the Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA), taking the position that FOIA allows it to withhold
information from the court whenever it thinks this is in the interest
of national security. Using the strongest
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/fbi-chastised-court-lying-about-existence
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Garrett D. Urban, Causing Damage without Authorization: The
Limitations of Current Judicial Interpretations of Employee
Authorization Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, WMLRev
http://wmlawreview.org/files/Urban.pdf
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9th Cir: Access of Computer in Violation of Employer's Use Policy
Violates Computer Fraud and Abuse Act -- US v. Nosal, Tech & Marketing
Law
US v. Nosal, 10-10038 (9th Cir.; Apr. 28, 2011) The Ninth Circuit
reversed the district court's...
http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2011/05/access_of_compu.htm
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AT&T Starts Capping Internet Use, Huffpo
The company, America's largest Internet service provider, becomes the
second broadband carrier after Comcast to start limiting the amount of
broadband its customers use. DSL users will be capped at 150 GB per
month, with those going over the limit more than three times in three
separate months made to pay $10 for each 50 GB over the limit. U-verse
users will be capped at 250 per month. Such metered access has already
hit Internet subscribers in Canada.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/att-broadband-internet-caps_n_856201.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

FCC SHOULD MOVE LIGHTSQUARED NETWORK OFF THE FAST TRACK — FOR NOW,
Urgent Communications
I'm not much of an adventurer, or gambler for that matter. Never have
been. You'll never see me in Las Vegas at the tables throwing around
big bills — dollar blackjack is exciting enough
http://urgentcomm.com/networks_and_systems/commentary/fcc-lightsquared-gps-concerns-20110426/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/gps.htm

TomTom Apologizes For Selling Speeding Data To Dutch Government, Techdirt
TomTom, the troubled GPS navigation device maker, was forced to
quickly apologize after news reports came out about how the company
had sold aggregate data on driving habits it collected from the
devices to the Dutch government, who then used that data to figure out
where to set up speed traps and speed cameras. TomTom claims they
thought the data would just be used for improving traffic safety, not
for speed traps
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110428/01471414064/tomtom-apologizes-selling-speeding-data-to-dutch-government.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/gps.htm

WISPA Announces Disaster Relief Fund, Sends Aid to Cullman, Alabama, WISPA
The Wireless Internet Server Provider Association today announced the
WISPA Disaster Relief Fund . "The WISP Community should be proud of
their generosity to assist another company in their industry who was
in need. But why shouldn't they be proud, these operators often invest
their own money, to bring broadband service to
http://www.wispa.org/?p=4645
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Is It Possible To Salvage Open WiFi?, Techdirt
We recently wrote about how a guy had his home raided by gun-toting
law enforcement officials accusing him of downloading child porn when
it really came from someone else who had hopped on his open WiFi
router. While the lesson we got out of it was that law enforcement
needs to rethink when it calls in SWAT teams and beef up their own
technical knowledge, the lesson that many others were pushing was that
you must
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110428/01360714063/is-it-possible-to-salvage-open-wifi.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm

Protecting children online, OECD
As increasing numbers of children worldwide enjoy the benefits of the
Internet, they also face a spectrum of risks to which they are more
vulnerable than adults. This reports examines these risks as well as
the policy responses of governments and other stakeholders to improve
the protection of children online.
http://www.oecd.org/department/0,3355,en_2649_34223_1_1_1_1_1,00.html?rssChId=34223#47741369
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm

CAIDA's IPv6 measurement and analysis activities, CAIDA
In pursuit of more rigorous data on IPv6 deployment, CAIDA has
undertaken four IPv6 measurement and analysis exercises: address
allocation data; traceroute-based topology; DNS queries from root
servers; and a global survey of network operators in 2008.
http://blog.caida.org/best_available_data/2011/04/29/caidas-ipv6-measurement-and-analysis-activities/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

my second FCC TAC meeting, and its IPv6 promise, CAIDA
I recently remotely attended my second meeting of the FCC's
Technological Advisory Council (slides but no video archives). The
chairs of four working groups created at the first TAC meeting
(Critical Transitions; IPv6; Broadband Infrastructure Deployment; and
Sharing Opportunities) presented their interim results. The FCC then
issued a set of "TAC recommendations" (which the TAC never saw); it is
mostly a wish list from
http://blog.caida.org/best_available_data/2011/04/30/my-second-fcc-tac-meeting-and-its-ipv6-promise/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

Testing IPv6 for World Ipv6 Day, Potaroo
It's now time to look hard at the practical issues that we will
encounter with deployment of IPv6, and in support of this it has been
proposed to launch a "test flight" of IPv6 on World IPv6 Day. On June
8 2011 a number of web sites, including Google, Facebook, Yahoo! and
Bing, will convert their main web pages to be reachable over both IPv4
and IPv6. Content providers all over the world are invited to join in
this effort. For
http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2011-05/ip6test.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm

Former DHS Official: ACTA 'Sweetheart Deal For IP Owners; Free Gov't
Enforcement Of Private Rights', Techdirt
We recently wrote about a 2008 memo and position paper from Homeland
Security to the USTR warning that ACTA was a bad idea that could harm
national security, and transfer private civil issues to the government
to enforce. The author of the original memo, Stewart Baker, who is no
longer at DHS, has now commented on our coverage of this issue,
stating that DHS did not like ACTA as it was drafted:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110428/11564814069/former-dhs-official-acta-sweetheart-deal-ip-owners-free-govt-enforcement-private-rights.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm

Wikileaks Cables Show Massive U.S. Effort to Establish Canadian DMCA,
Michael Geist
Wikileaks has released dozens of new U.S. cables that demonstrate
years of behind the scenes lobbying by U.S. government officials to
pressure Canada into implementing a Canadian DMCA. The cables include
confirmation that Prime Minister Harper personally promised U.S.
President George Bush at the SPP summit in Montebello, Quebec in 2008
that Canada would pass copyright legislation, U.S. government lines
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MichaelGeistsBlog/~3/eoUoyCU23w8/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm

PICTURES: Bin Laden's Alleged Compound Hits Google Maps, Huffpo
President Barack Obama announced late Sunday night that Osama bin
Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan during a raid by U.S.
operatives.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/bin-laden-compound-abbottabad-google-maps_n_856225.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm

Pakistani programmer unknowingly tweets bin Laden operation, Globe and Mail
Sohaib Athar unwittingly described the U.S. operation to kill the
world's most wanted militant
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/jWlk9lYxyns/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm

Bin Laden Raid Was Tweeted Live, Huffpo
In the early hours of Monday, Sohaib Athar reported on his Twitter
account that a loud bang had rattled his windows in the Pakistani town
of Abbottabad, saying he hoped "its not the start of something nasty."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-raid-capt_n_856187.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm

Twitter Nails Osama Capture, Death First, Huffpo
First reported on social media.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-w-silberberg/twitter-osama-bin-laden_b_856160.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm

Best social media moments of Osama bin Laden's death, Lost Remote
When the President of the United States unexpectedly asks for time
across the networks late on a Sunday night, you know it's going to be
big. And as the live statement was repeatedly delayed, that left
everyone clamoring on Twitter while news organizations hit the phones.
Before long, the news was out before the President approached the
microphone.
http://www.lostremote.com/2011/05/01/best-social-media-moments-of-osama-bin-ladens-death/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm

Interesting World: Man Unwittingly Live Tweets Raid That Killed Osama
Bin Laden, Techdirt
There's really not much for us to say on the raid that killed Osama
bin Laden, since that's really not a topic for this blog... and, of
course, it's being covered quite ably pretty much everywhere else.
However, I do find this one minor side story, highlighted by Mike
Butcher at TechCrunch,
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110501/23343014105/interesting-world-man-unwittingly-live-tweets-raid-that-killed-osama-bin-laden.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm

To Stream or Not to Stream? The Future of Live Sports Distribution, CISCO
The wildly popular U.S. men's college basketball face-off known as
March Madness offered a teachable moment this spring. Thanks to a
partnership between CBS and Turner Sports, not only was more of the
tournament shown live on TV than ever before, but every game was
streamed online for free. And here's the kicker: viewership in both
domains was up over last year. ...
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2011/ts_050211.html?CMP=AF17154&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Press+Releases+and+Features&vs_p=News@Cisco:+Press+Releases+and+Features&vs_k=1
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/video.htm

Facebook Shuts Down Legitimate Pages Because Of Bogus Claims, Huffpo
Facebook has shut down at least a half-dozen legitimate Facebook pages
due to what appears to be a dysfunctional copyright infringement
claims system.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/facebook-pages-copyright-infringement-claims_n_855029.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/socialnetworks.htm

New FBI Documents Provide Details on Government's Surveillance Spyware, EFF
EFF recently received documents from the FBI that reveal details about
the depth of the agency's electronic surveillance capabilities and
call into question the FBI's controversial effort to push Congress to
expand the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)
for greater access to communications data. The documents we received
were sent to us in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/CIPAV_Post
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/spy.htm

Sony apologizes, details PlayStation Network attack, CW
Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services will begin a
phased resumption this week, after the company took them offline in
response to a "very sophisticated" intrusion, the company said Sunday.
http://rss.computerworld.com/~r/computerworld/news/feed/~3/vpY87EZoavc/Sony_apologizes_details_PlayStation_Network_attack
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/

Appeals Court: No Hacking Required to Be Prosecuted as a Hacker, Wired
Employees may be prosecuted under a federal antihacking statute for
taking computer files that they were authorized to access and using
them in a manner prohibited by the company, a federal appeals court
has ruled.
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/7BTAT_zOHMk/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm

Court: If You Use Your Computer For Anything Your Employer Doesn't
Like, You May Have Committed A Crime, Techdirt
Last year, we've noted some seriously troubling interpretations of the
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The law is designed to deal with
malicious computer hacking -- someone breaking into a secure computer
and accessing secret or private info. Yet, it's been twisted time and
time again (sometimes in very different ways by different courts).
However, this latest ruling is simply ridiculous. It effectively says
if you do anything on your employer's computer that the employer
doesn't like, you've committed a federal crime.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110429/03500914084/court-if-you-use-your-computer-anything-your-employer-doesnt-like-you-may-have-committed-crime.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm

9th Circuit Clarifies Brekka: Employees Can Be Criminally Prosecuted
for Violating Their Employer's Computer Policies, Computer Fraud
In California, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Montana, Arizona, Nevada
and Idaho – states covered by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals — the
answer as of yesterday is an emphatic "YES." In U.S. v. Nosal, 2011 WL
1585600 (9th Cir. April 28, 2011) the court clarified its decision in
LVRC Holdings LLC v. Brekka, 581 F.3d 1127, 1131 (9th Cir. 2009) which
up until now was considered to be a bar to using the Computer Fraud
http://computerfraud.us/recent-updates/can-employees-be-criminally-prosecuted-for-violating-their-employer%e2%80%99s-computer-policies
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm

Fire at data centre sends Aruba offline, Netcraft
Italian hosting company Aruba was knocked offline for a few hours
today after a fire broke out in the centre of a server farm.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/04/29/fire-at-data-centre-sends-aruba-offline.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/reliability.htm

Interconnected VoIP Providers Get One Free Bite -- Take Two, Telecom Law Monitor
The Commission's efforts to resolve the 2009 Omnibus CPNI NAL continue
to provide insights into the enforcement process generally. In the
past, we've commented on surprisingly small settlements and odd
provisions, but two orders earlier this week are especially cryptic.
http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TelecomLawMonitor/~3/jNdIuFK4lgk/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/fcc.htm

FCC Regulatory Fee Proposal May Resolve Long Pending VoIP Petition
Too, Telecom Law Monitor
According to the FCC's weekly list of pending items on circulation,
the Commission appears ready to resolve a longstanding petition by an
interconnected VoIP provider to cancel its 2007 FCC regulatory fee.
The ruling could have impact on future regulatory fee assessments, but
the specific relief relating to 2007 (if the petitioner is successful)
is likely to be limited to the petitioner.
http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TelecomLawMonitor/~3/Y9DWjaPLGR8/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/fcc.htm

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