Tag: isps
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Google launches phishing blacklist api
I see on the Google Security Blog that Google have launched a Safe Browsing api. In other words, Google are making available its dynamic blacklist of phishing and malware sites so ISPs and web app coders can check against it. This should help ensure unwitting users are notified before they browse to to unsafe sites…
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Iranian telecoms regulator should hire Irish broadband suppression expertise
However bad things are in Ireland in relation to our broadband speeds – things are even worse in Iran. According to the Guardian, the government there has ordered all ISPs to limit Internet speeds to 128kb. This is in an effort to: make it more difficult to download foreign music, films and television programmes, which…
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Where's the case for data retention?
Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt announced today that he thinks the greatest danger to people’s privacy is not from leaks of people’s data as happened earlier this week to AOL users but rather from government snooping. I have always worried the query stream is a fertile ground for governments to snoop on the people. This is…