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Another reason people hate cable companies, particularly Comcast

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Residents of St. Paul, MN, are entitled to a 10% discount from Comcast if they are elderly, disabled or low-income.

From a story in the Pioneer Press:

When Ruby Fabian called Comcast cable for a St. Paul resident senior discount, customer service reps informed her of a few restrictions. They said the 10 percent savings applied to low-income seniors and low-income disabled residents, but not to seniors in general. Fabian is almost 66, and she is neither disabled nor low-income.

The company’s 10-year cable franchise agreement with the city, though, does not apparently require seniors or the disabled to prove they are low-income. The deal was approved by the city council in March.

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Network World Paul McNamara

How phone companies drive people crazy

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Every journalist has experienced this type of phone call, as have librarians, police dispatchers and I presume those in a number of other public-facing professions. This one involves a longtime friend who works for a CBS news affiliate and prefers to remain anonymous.

CALLER: “Hi, could you give me the phone number for FOX 5 in (a major city)?”

JOURNALIST: “I’m sorry?”

CALLER: “FOX 5. The TV station. Do you have the number?”

JOURNALIST: “Why do you want the number?”

CALLER: “Why do you want to know?”

JOURNALIST: “Are you calling them about a story?”

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Network World Paul McNamara

New Snowden docs reveal NSA, British government attacked antivirus companies – ExtremeTech

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ExtremeTech

New Snowden docs reveal NSA, British government attacked antivirus companies
ExtremeTech
Over the past few years, antivirus companies have stepped up their identification of government created malware, from Flame and Stuxnet to Regin and the aforementioned EquationDrug. These revelations seem to indicate it was the government that kicked …
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Duqu spy group also targeted telecommunications companies

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The group behind the Duqu cyberespionage tool has compromised at least two telecommunications operators and one electronic equipment manufacturer, in addition to a cybersecurity firm and venues that hosted high-level nuclear negotiations between world powers and Iran.

On Wednesday, Moscow-based antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab, which has been deeply involved in exposing sophisticated cyberespionage campaigns over the past few years, revealed that it too fell victim to such an attack.

The company discovered in early spring that several of its internal systems were infected with a new version of Duqu, a sophisticated malware platform believed to be related to the Stuxnet worm used to sabotage Iran’s nuclear enrichment centrifuges at Natanz.

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