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- justplainan, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2"And on the 7th of August 2008, Skynet became self-aware"
- pigfister, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Its just a shame that BT ***** over all its customers by secretly spying on them and throttling their connection 24/7
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/0 ...
EU questions UK on ISP spyware 07 August 2008
OUR FAVOURITE POLITICIAN Viviane Reding is making herself unpopular in the hallowed halls of Westminster once again.
The tech crusader who famously forced greedy mobile telcos to cut extortionate data roaming charges, has given the UK Government until next month to fess up about the use of Phorm, a sneaky bit of spyware which tracks internet usage under the guise of an advertising targeting system.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/07/bt_samknow ...
BT slams bandwidth brakes on all subscribers 7th August 2008
BT is throttling all of its broadband customers' bandwidth at peak times, not just heavy users, according to independent monitoring data.
Early findings from a new hardware-based monitoring project by ISP analysis outfit Samknows show that even customers who use their connection lightly have non-port 80 traffic slowed to about 15 per cent of the normal speed in the evening, when load on BT's network is high.
Port 80 is used for HTTP web traffic. Samknows used tests on other ports to simulate peer-to-peer traffic, so even a casual BT downloader who grabs a TV show from BitTorrent faces the throttle.
Samknows boss Sam Crawford told El Reg: "Everyone knew that BT does traffic shaping. What's surprising is that they seem to do it to everyone." - fragsta, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1This is only the beginning. Soon it'll be talking to you through a small diamond in your ear.
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