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US military is furious at FCC over 5G plan that could interfere with GPS

Department of Defense CIO Dana Deasy sitting at a table while testifying at a Senate hearing.

Enlarge / Dana Deasy, Department of Defense chief information officer, testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on May 6, 2020 in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images)

GPS is facing a major interference threat from a 5G network approved by the Federal Communications Commission, US military officials told Congress in a hearing on Wednesday.

In testimony to the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy disputed the FCC’s claims that conditions imposed on the Ligado network will protect GPS from interference.

When the FCC approved Ligado’s plan last month, the agency required a 23MHz guard band to provide a buffer between the Ligado cellular network and GPS. Deasy argued that this guard band won’t prevent interference with GPS signals:

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‘I feel BETRAYED!’ Furious Brexiteer vows to fight for Brexit with ‘cyber WARFARE’ – Express

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French Political Party Voting For Mandatory Copyright Filters Is Furious That Its YouTube Channel Deleted By Filter

It’s been a long tradition here on Techdirt to show examples of politicians and political parties pushing for stricter, more draconian, copyright laws are often found violating those same laws. But the French Rassemblemant National (National Rally Point) party is taking this to new levels — whining about the enforcement of internet filters, just as it’s about to vote in favor of making such filters mandatory. Leaving aside that Rassemblemant National, which is the party headed by Marine Le Pen, is highly controversial, and was formerly known as Front National, it is still an extremely popular political party in France. And, boy, is it ever pissed off that YouTube took down its YouTube channel over automatically generated copyright strikes. Le Pen is particularly angry that YouTube’s automatic filters were unable to recognize that they were just quoting other works:

Marine Le Pen was quoted as saying, “This measure is completely false; we can easily assert a right of quotation [to illustrate why the material was well within the law to broadcast]”.

Yes, but that’s the nature of automated filters. They cannot tell what is “fair use” or what kinds of use are acceptable for commentary or criticism. They can just tell “was this work used?” and if so “take it down.”

Given all that, and the fact that Le Pen complained that this was “arbitrary, political and unilateral,” you have to think that her party is against the EU Copyright Directive proposal, which includes Article 13, which would make such algorithmic filters mandatory. Except… no. Within the EU Parliament, Rassemblemant National is in a coalition with a bunch of other anti-EU parties known as Europe of Nations and Freedoms or ENF. And how does ENF feel about Article 13? MEP Julia Reda has a handy dandy chart showing that ENF is very much in favor of Article 13 (and the Article 11 link tax).

So… we have a major political party in the EU, whose own YouTube channel has been shut down thanks to automated copyright filters in the form of YouTube’s ContentID. And that party is complaining that ContentID, which is the most expensive and the most sophisticated of all the copyright filters out there, was unable to recognize that they were legally “quoting” another work… and their response is to order every other internet platform to install their own filters. Really?

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SLocker Android Ransomware Makes Furious Comeback with 400 New Variations – BleepingComputer


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SLocker Android Ransomware Makes Furious Comeback with 400 New Variations
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The SLocker Android ransomware is back with a new wave of infections, after previously wreaking havoc in the summer of 2016. This recent wave of infections was spotted by security firm Wandera, who reported yesterday about a new wave of infections that …

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