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Governed By Imbeciles

| | Crypto Not Crypto, Governed By Imbeciles, Information Security
View fullsize via Dan Goodin - Security Editor at the beloved Ars Technica, comes one of the more amusing posts on the deeply flawed tellers-of tales at Zoom and that stinker-of-an-act: EARN ...
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Federally Funded Android Phones Contain Non-Removable Malware: The Government Cheese Of Mobile Devices

Federally Funded Android Phones Contain Non-Removable Malware: The Government Cheese Of Mobile Devices

| | Governed By Imbeciles, Government Incompetence, Governmental Corruption
Simply Astonishing ...
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Pants On Fire - Mobile Telecom Edition

Pants On Fire – Mobile Telecom Edition

| | Governed By Imbeciles, Governmental Corruption
via Jon Brodkin, writing at Ars Technica, comes his superlative truth-telling in the knobby wake of astounding deceipt by Chariman Pai and other members of the FCC. Sit down, hold on, and ...
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The Joy of Tech®, ‘Facebook’s Fine!’

| | Facebookery, Governed By Imbeciles, Government Incompetence, Incompetence, Information Insecurity, Joy of Tech®, Sarcasm, satire
via the Comic Noggins of Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech® Permalink ...
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No-Tel Mo-Tel? Motel 6 Settles State of Washington Lawsuit With $12,000,000 Payment

No-Tel Mo-Tel? Motel 6 Settles State of Washington Lawsuit With $12,000,000 Payment

| | Death of Privacy, Governed By Imbeciles, Information Insecurity, Must Read
via Chris Morris' well-crafted reportage at Fortune, comes the story of illegal data sharing engaged in by Motel 6, and the $12,000,000 price tag the company coughed up in settlement fines to ...
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Apparently, There Is No Longer Clear And Present Danger

Apparently, There Is No Longer Clear And Present Danger

| | Anti-Terrorism, Governed By Imbeciles, government, Government Incompetence, Information Security
Meanwhile, in Governance By Imbeciles news, a troubling a story, via Betsy Woodruff, writing at The Daily Beast, targeting the shuttering of an intelligence analysis group (ostensibly focused on domestic terrorism) at ...
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FCC Coughs Up $43,000 For Hiding Net neutrality Records

FCC Coughs Up $43,000 For Hiding Net neutrality Records

| | Corporate Corruption, Corporate Evil, Corruption, Governed By Imbeciles, Government Censorship, Government Incompetence, Governmental Corruption
You Can Bet The Chairman Will Be Implicated In This... via Jon Brodkin, writing at Condé Nast media property Ars Technica, in which, Mr. Brodkin reports on bad news for Chairman Ajit ...
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Pai, Four Ways…

Another Appalling Privacy Failure From The FCC

| | Governed By Imbeciles, Government Incompetence, Governmental Corruption
Pai, Four Ways… This time, it's the apparent lack of planning for location privacy protections in the new 911 Emergency Data Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking from our apparently on-the-take Chairman of ...
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FCC To Auction Wireless Spectrum That Will Interfere With Weather Data Collection

FCC To Auction Wireless Spectrum That Will Interfere With Weather Data Collection

| | Governed By Imbeciles, Government Incompetence, Governmental Corruption, meteorology, Physical Sciences, Physical Security
What band of idiots would do this damage to the data pooling of meteorological data, just to make a buck? Ajit Varadaraj Pai, that's who... The first (that I can recall) Federal ...
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Wyden’s Warning: Winter Is Coming

| | Governed By Imbeciles
Image Credit: Vilniaus Universitetas ( http://www.tspmi.vu.lt ) What next? Technical Support from Москва? Today's Must Read ...
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