[Cybertel-Ann] 9.18 :: Putting Lipstick on DSL Prices :: Revolving Door at FCC makes fun playground feature :: Palin's Yahoo account hacked :: McCain Invented the Telegraph! :: So, how is your AIG stock doing? ::

Thu Sep 18 07:20:45 PDT 2008

============================================
             CyberTelecom News  
      Federal Internet Law and Policy
============================================
I thank God, there are no free-schools, nor printing; and I hope we shall not have these [for a] hundred years, for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!” – William Berkeley, Royal Governor Virginia, 1671 (quoted in Paul Starr, The Creation of the Media).

AT&T Drops DSL Price, But Not Really - As free Wi-Fi expands to include telco's slowest tier…, dslreports
AT&T is getting some press today (Atlanta Journal Constitution, San Antonio Business Journal) for reducing the price of their 768kbps DSL Lite tier from $19.95 to $14.95 in Southern markets. Interestingly, neither news outlet bothers to mention that you're already supposed to be able to order that same tier for $10, as a condition (pdf) of the AT&T BellSouth merger. Unfortunately for consumers, while AT&T was forced to provide the tier for two years, they were under no obligation to advertise it or make it easy to sign up for. CEO Randall Stephenson has previously denied that the $10 tier is hard to
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Drops-DSL-Price-But-Not-Really-97803
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/dsl.htm

Plane porn: who wants it?, CNET
Why would anyone actually WANT to watch porn on a plane?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10045099-71.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm

Filtering on Planes, or Why I Will Only Take Amtrak, Info Law
American Airlines is testing in-flight wi-fi Internet access, and flight attendants want something to be done to prevent passengers from looking at naughty things in flight. (”something” = filter the content). This brings back some funny travel memories from my days in consulting, such as seeing someone on a flight to Toronto openly reading Playboy, and a women’s rugby team passing a pornographic magazine back and forth around the cabin. The point: porn on planes isn’t new, and yet the Republic remains strong. Filtering is a dumb idea here, for three reasons.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/09/16/filtering-on-planes-or-why-i-will-only-take-amtrak/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm

ESPN's ISP discrimination shakes Net neutrality hornet's nest, CNET
ESPN through its selective blocking of people from particular Internet service providers, may very well wake the sleeping giant that is Net neutrality.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-10043040-46.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

comScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for August 2008, comscore
top online properties for August 2008 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. The Olympics and the U.S. Presidential campaign were the main drivers of Internet activity during the month, resulting in strong gains at politics, sports, news and humor
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/comscore/~3/394527852/release.asp
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/

Bill Moves Forward To Re-Legalize Online Poker, Techdirt
Looks like having poker lobbyists setting poker tables at both presidential conventions this year was effective. A new bill is successfully moving its way through Congress that would effectively re-legalize online poker, reversing a law passed two years ago that made it illegal for financial institutions to accept payment for online gambling (all in the name of national security, of course).
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080918/0229432304.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/gambling.htm

Senate Passes E-Government Act Reauthorization, CDT
For five years, the E-Government Act has promoted improvements in the federal government's use of information technology, including increased transparency for government information. The Senate is expected to pass the E-Government Reauthorization Act of 2007 by unanimous consent later tonight. CDT believes that the reauthorization includes two key improvements to the E-Government Act in a call
http://www.cdt.org/headlines/1158
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/

AT&T Presents Their Version Of Wireless History - Opinion: new 'pro-consumer' portal sure to entertain, delight...., dslreports
AT&T today announced a new, "consumer focused" portal aimed at showing just how utterly fantastic the nation's biggest phone company has been at implementing pro-consumer wireless policies&#46 The fancy new site comes complete with a hired actor who'll "educate" you on AT&T's version of wireless history since 1983, saving you from the pesky task of studying history yourself. While AT&T certainly has done a great job in allowing users to swap out SIM cards, their interpretation of telecom
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Presents-Their-Version-Of-Wireless-History-97807
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm

Facts about our Yahoo! ad deal and ad prices, Google
As Hal Varian wrote earlier this week, there's been some recent discussion about the impact of our recent advertising agreement with Yahoo!. While Hal addressed a recent study about the deal's potential imapct, today I wanted to address of a few of the questions that advertisers and others have raised about the deal's impact on ad prices. Here are the facts:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/396175025/facts-about-our-yahoo-ad-deal-and-ad.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/google.htm

Revolving Door Undermines FCC's Watchdog Role, Techdirt
In previous installments of my series on network neutrality, I've pointed out that the end-to-end principle is not as fragile as a lot of people assume. Technological platforms have a kind of momentum that make them hard to change once they've become established, and so it's not at all obvious that major broadband providers have the ability to significantly change the Internet's architecture. In my view, this is one reason to be skeptical of making the FCC the nation's network neutrality cop.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080831/0618342133.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm

Critics: Homeland Security unprepared for cyberthreats, CNET
Some Washingtonians are rethinking the idea that DHS can handle cybersecurity, saying it has proven to be inefficient, bureaucratic, and unable even to monitor federal networks well.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10043665-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dhs.htm

Net outage widest since 2003, Globe and Mail
Internet connections in Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania were the hardest hit by blackouts that followed Hurricane Ike
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/395581138/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/katrina.htm

Ike Brings Biggest Multi-State Internet Outage since 2003, Renesys
Ike swept across Texas on Saturday, devastating Galveston and severely damaging Houston and Harris County before plodding intensely north and east through Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. While many Texan networks remain unreachable, the recovery is proceeding remarkably quickly. From a peak of around 100 networks suffering outage through Monday, Ohio, still hard hit, is also slowly starting to recover. And Pennsylvania is the latest victim of Ike.
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/09/ike_brings_biggest_multistate.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/katrina.htm

Hack of Palin e-mail makes case for sticking with .gov account, Ars Technica
Gov. Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account was hacked earlier this week, and information from the compromised account was released on the Internet, adding security worries to transparency concerns about the use of unofficial accounts for government business.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080917-palin-e-mail-hack-makes-case-for-sticking-with-gov-e-mail.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/2008.htm

McCain BlackBerry Easily Connects With Gore Internet, Wash Post
The campaign of Sen. John McCain wanted to be clear yesterday: The Arizona Republican did not help create the BlackBerry.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/technology/index_xml/~3/XaEPuQQjnBA/AR2008091603226.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/2008.htm

Hackers Access Palin's Personal E-Mail, Post Some Online, Wash Post
A group of computer hackers said yesterday that they had accessed a Yahoo e-mail account of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, publishing some of her private communications to expose what appeared to be her use of a personal account for government business.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/technology/index_xml/~3/4QjfujKMVFc/AR2008091703304.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/2008.htm

Gov. Palin's Yahoo Email Account Hacked, EFF
Last night, someone apparently obtained access to the Yahoo! email account of Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for Vice President. Screenshots of Gov. Palin's email account are now widely available on the sites such as Wikileaks and Gawker.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/09/gov-palins-yahoo-email-account-hacked
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/vote/2008.htm

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : 
http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm 

Now Extra Delicious!
http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc 

To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to
LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command
[un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. Announce only list
information available at  www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo  

AUP :: www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm#aup

Cybertelecom                Link to us!
www.cybertelecom.org 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~