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etc: Time Warner Cable customers in Dallas can now get 50Mbps Internet service.
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Continue reading »BitStalker Can Monitor Pirate Bay Torrents for $13 p/mo
Researchers create BitStalker, an efficient “active probing strategy” for finding copyrighted material on large BitTorrent tracker sites, but fact that the research was funded “in part” by PolyCipher, an ISP consortium, should make some nervous about what it plans to do with it. Researchers from the University of Colorado have published a new technique for fighting the distribution of copyrighted material on BitTorrent . Current monitoring employs passive methods that are prone, as we all know, to a variety of errors and false positives .
Continue reading »Blogger: Time Warner Routers Still Hackable Despite Company Assurance
A blogger who stumbled across a vulnerability in more than 65,000 Time Warner Cable customer routers says the routers are still vulnerable to remote attack, despite claims by the company last week that it patched the routers. Last Tuesday, David Chen, an internet startup-founder, published information about the vulnerability in Time Warner’s SMC8014 series cable modem/Wi-Fi router combo , made by SMC. The problem would allow a hacker to remotely access the device’s administrative menu over the internet and potentially change the settings to intercept traffic, making possible all sorts of nefarious activity.
Continue reading »ISPs’ costs, revenues don’t support data cap argument
Data caps and metered billing have generated significant consumer resistance not because the idea of metered billing is always bad, but because the new packages on offer feel like highway robbery. Proponents of such caps, like Time Warner Cable, often claim that people need to “pay their fair share” in order to fund future upgrades, so we rounded the quarterly earnings statements out last week from the major US ISPs in an attempt to gauge how accurate that argument might be. It turns out that just about everyone is making huge margins in Internet access, revenue is surging even as costs drop, and companies like Time Warner Cable have actually reduced (significantly) their capital outlays on infrastructure.
Continue reading »Even when not explicit, ISP data caps still haunt users
Time Warner Cable’s plan to impose tiered data caps on Internet users imploded last week , but that doesn’t mean TWC users can download to their heart’s content. No, like many other ISPs without explicit data caps, TWC retains an ” acceptable use policy ” that lets it curtail any “abuse” of its network, as one user found out the hard way. StoptheCap.com has been covering the TWC case in obsessive detail (seriously, we’re a little worried), and it yesterday published the story of a TWC user from Austin, Texas who ran afoul of the acceptable use policy.
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