New Orleans There was a brief blurb that went across my screen the other day. ACORN Canada was taking another national action demanding “Internet for All” in the long running campaign we have waged to increase access to the internet for lower income families. We’ve made progress there. Way more than we have in …
Tag: Internet
How Does Anyone Protect themselves from Hacking
Little Rock If we asked the question plainly: is there any way that we can be protected from hacking? The answer is likely either, “No,” or maybe more optimistically, “not completely.” At some level this is a problem for everyone. Or at least everyone with access to the internet or perhaps a car or mobile …
FCC Fork Tongues on Net Neutrality
Little Rock It wasn’t so long ago that we don’t remember, but in a fierce fight that logged more citizen comments that ever before recorded on a Federal Communications Commission matter, the FCC essentially declared the internet equivalent to a public utility assuring net neutrality, meaning that all providers have equal access to users. …
Secrets? Who Has Secrets Anymore?
Little Rock If you ever want to keep a secret, don’t ever write it down anywhere. Don’t walk, but run away the internet! That’s increasingly the single biggest clue to protecting your privacy. The evidence mounts daily as the tidal surges of data seep out of every conceivable internet portal and stream into hands both …
Establishing Internet as a Utility – This is Big!
Quito In the midst of so much tragedy at the massacre of almost 50 LGBT men and women at a nightclub in Orlando and the horror and insensitivity of the Trump and Republican response, it was still possible to find a bright spot in the news: a federal court has backed policies establishing the internet …