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Comcast’s silly propaganda helped kill municipal broadband projects

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A little more than 10 years ago, Comcast stuffed mailboxes in Batavia, Illinois, in the weeks leading up to a vote on a referendum measure attempting to establish a municipal broadband network, warning of failed projects and other horror stories that would come to life if they voted in favor of it.

The fliers, one of which can be seen above and others which are published at Motherboard, likened municipal broadband to “ghosts” and “goblins,” claimed that the referendum proponents didn’t even have a business plan for the project, and, strangely, implied that the local women who voted in favor of it didn’t understand their priorities.

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“Heartbleed” – would 2FA have helped?

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Because of the global password reset pandemic caused by Heartbleed, lots of Naked Security readers have asked, “Wouldn’t 2FA have helped?” Paul Ducklin takes a look…
Naked Security – Sophos

FBI seeking “Loverspy” hacker who helped jealous lovers plant spyware

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In yet another “don’t open that e-birthday card” saga, 33-year-old Carlos Enrique Perez-Melara, now on the FBI’s 10 most wanted cybercriminals list, allegedly sold malware that planted a keylogger, as well as remotely controlling a victim’s computer and webcam.
Naked Security – Sophos

Project Chess helped NSA snoop on your Skype communications

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Before Microsoft owned Skype, way back in 2008 when Skype was an eBay subsidiary, it began Project Chess, a “secret program” for spying on users communications. Anonymous sources told the New York Times that Project Chess was setup “to explore the legal and technical issues in making Skype calls readily available to intelligence agencies and law enforcement officials.” 
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