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Comment: Last thing First Nations need is foreign groups hijacking our future – Times Colonist

Comment: Last thing First Nations need is foreign groups hijacking our future  Times Colonist
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Comment: Marriott guest system hack shows the need for wider rollout of Apple Pay on the web

Apple Pay offers protection against this type of hack, because actual card details are never passed to the company. Your iPhone, Watch or Mac instead generates a one-time code which is used in …
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Net neutrality comment deadline is tomorrow; 21.9 million comments in so far

Enlarge / Protestors object to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to eliminate net neutrality rules before Pai’s appearance at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC on May 5, 2017. (credit: Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla)

You have until midnight Eastern Time tomorrow night (Wednesday) to file comments on the Federal Communications Commission plan to deregulate broadband service and roll back net neutrality rules.

There are 21.9 million filings on the FCC’s “Restoring Internet Freedom” docket already, blowing away the four million received before the 2015 decision that imposed net neutrality rules. Many comments are apparently from spam bots and form letters, but Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to undo net neutrality rules has received massive attention.

The deadline for initial comments passed on July 17, and the deadline for replies to initial comments was supposed to pass on August 16. But the FCC extended the deadline by two weeks to August 30, partially granting a request for an eight-week extension from net neutrality advocates.

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Google fixes potential revenue-stealing “comment cloning” YouTube bug

Two Egyptian security researchers figured out how to clone other people’s YouTube comments. You could “borrow” approvals and positive reviews so that they appeared to promote your videos, too.
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