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Big Cable: Net neutrality violates ISP 1st Amendment rights
Speaking before the Media Institute in Virginia on Tuesday, the leading voice of the cable industry challenged the idea that net neutrality regulations enhance free speech. Quite the contrary, warned Kyle McSlarrow, CEO of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, “the First Amendment is framed as a shield for citizens, not a sword for government.” True enough, the First Amendment “promotes democratic values,” McSlarrow added, “but it does so best by freeing citizens from government regulation of their speech, not by regulating it.”
Continue reading »Court Kills ‘Round-The-Clock’ Surveillance Case
Welcome to the tinfoil hat club. That’s what a federal appeals court is telling Scott Tooley of Kentucky in dismissing his civil rights lawsuit. Tooley believes the government put him under blanket surveillance after he said the word bomb to an airline agent.
Continue reading »First white space broadband deployment in small Virginia town
The nation’s first wireless broadband network operating in unused TV channel ” white spaces ” is now live in an unlikely spot—Claudville, Virginia. Claudville is a small place—only 20,000 people live in the entire county, and only 900 in Claudville proper—and its Blue Ridge Mountain terrain has made Internet access hard to come by. Combine that with a countywide per capita income of $15,574 and its not hard to see why the big ISPs haven’t rushed to Claudville.
Continue reading »Plea Deal Clears Intelligence Analyst of Felony Hacking
Federal prosecutors dropped a felony hacking charge Thursday against a Defense Department intelligence analyst who poked around in a system involved in a national terrorism investigation. The analyst, Brian Keith Montgomery, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge instead, settling the case and making prison time unlikely. Montgomery held a top secret clearance while working on a covert program at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — the spy agency in charge of satellite and aerial image collection.
Continue reading »Intelligence Analyst Says Hacking Charge Doesn’t Compute
A Defense Department intelligence analyst hit with a federal computer hacking charge last week says he’s being made a scapegoat for a security slip-up that sent a password in a nationwide terrorism investigation to “tens of thousands” of analysts without the need-to-know. “I think on one of the blogs, somebody said, how about this: I give you my username and password, you log into my account, and then I file criminal charges against you,” said Brian Keith Montgomery, in a telephone interview with Threat Level on Thursday. “That person hit it right on the head.” Montgomery held a top secret clearance while working on a covert program at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — the spy agency in charge of satellite and aerial image collection.
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