Message-ID: <20210617212731.0589C73C@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 21:27:29 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: New Federal Program Provides Discount on Internet Service
for People With Disabilities
A new federal program will provide a $50 per month discount on
internet service for many people with disabilities. A discount of $75
per month will be available to those on tribal lands who qualify. The
discounts are available to any household with a person receiving
Medicaid, Supplemental Social Security (SSI), SNAP (food stamps), or
Federal Housing assistance, among other benefits.
Many people with disabilities receive these and thus qualify for the
discount. The discount will be put on the customer's bill, and the
service provider (cable, phone, cell phone, etc.) will be reimbursed
by the feds.
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/new-federal-program-provides-discount-internet-service-people-disabilities
Message-ID: <20210618025029.8FD0973C@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:50:27 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Ten-year hacktivist fugitive ‘Commander X’ arrested in Mexico
By Nate Anderson
A decade after Chris “Commander X” Doyon skipped out on a federal
hacking charge and fled the country, the long arm of US law
enforcement this week stretched out its hand and plucked him from
Mexico City, where he had claimed political asylum. Doyon now faces
all of the original charges for coordinating a 2010 High Orbit Ion
Cannon (HOIC) DDoS attack on servers belonging to Santa Cruz,
California, plus a serious new charge for jumping bail.
This has been a surprising turn of events for the homeless hacktivist,
who spent his years first in Canada and then in Mexico issuing press
releases, hanging out on Twitter, writing a self-published memoir,
appearing in documentaries, and meeting up with journalists like
me - all without apparent response from the US government.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/ddos-fugitive-commander-x-arrested-in-mexico-extradited-to-us/
***** Moderator's Note *****
This obvious witch hunt was thought up by the same impotent
bureaucrats who brought us the sideshow of Julian Assange being
dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy, and it's just the beginning of
lots of intimidation and morality plays that are the Democrat's
payback to the Internet's major players - payback for helping to elect
Joe Biden.
The fact is that the Internet, and American data processing in
general, are both frighteningly vulnerable to attacks by knowledgeable
and well-supported bad actors, both foreign and domestic. The fact is
that the major Internet players don't have any idea how to stop it,
and they aren't willing to suffer the losses which the major redesign
of every Internet protocol would require.
The fact is that every bit of security now in use on the Internet was
an add-on that has been nailed to the frames of protocols and
procedures that are over forty years old, and even the most
well-planned and well-thought-out efforts to keep the net safe from
attack have foundered on the rocks in the average users' head.
For now, our Effa-bee-eye and Secret Service PR teems are swinging
into action, decisively demonstrating to every child with an
above-average IQ that Uncle Sam is a vidictive and vicious copy of the
Wizard of Oz: ready, willing, and able to demand that we all ignore
the man behind the curtain.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Message-ID: <20210618020832.7BD3173C@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:08:30 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: TCPA Footnote 7 Cannot Save Autodialer Claims
by David O. Klein
In the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Facebook v. Duguid, the Court
clarified the definition of the term “autodialer” as used in the
Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). In that decision, largely a
win for the telemarketing industry, the Supreme Court included a TCPA
footnote (also referred to as Footnote 7) that addressed a linguistic
point which illustrates how parts of the TCPA's definition of
autodialer work together.
https://tinyurl.com/3ssyx5b9
