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12/01/2017

Keep the net neutral here is a good video about it:

The FCC and Congress are voting on December 14th, 2017 to repeal the Net Neutrality laws that protect us internet users from ISP's Throttling, Blocking or Pr...

07/12/2017

Help keep the net neutral, if this goes away everyone will be impacted and regret letting it slip away

https://action.aclu.org/secure/comment-net-neutrality?redirect=net-neutralityAMA&ms=web_170712_freespeech_privacyandtechnology_netneutrality_reddit

If we let the FCC destroy net neutrality, the only winners will be huge corporations. Submit a comment to save the internet.

01/10/2017

This is terrible. http://www.networkworld.com/article/3156029/computers/why-you-shouldnt-trust-geek-squad-ever-again.html

The U.S. government reportedly pays Geek Squad technicians to dig through your PC for files to give to the FBI.

11/18/2016

https://consumerist.com/2016/11/16/office-depot-allegedly-diagnosing-computers-with-nonexistent-viruses-to-meet-sales-goals/

This is why big box stores aren't the answer. Small businesses like mine don't have sales goals I am just here to help you out with your computer problems.

Retailers upselling customers on services they don’t need is nothing new, but a new report claims that some Office Depot employees are falsely claiming computers are infected with viruses in …

05/19/2016

Very nice of them to release the master key, however they have made a LOT of money. Good on them though.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/teslacrypt-shuts-down-and-releases-master-decryption-key/

04/05/2016

Google needs to go back to their original motto of "Don't be evil"

https://medium.com//the-time-that-tony-fadell-sold-me-a-container-of-hummus-cb0941c762c1 #.qafmvlmrt

On May 16th 2016 a critical Nest product will stop working. I’m shocked this isn’t bigger news.

04/05/2016

Interesting read.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/01/hacker_reveals_40_attack_to_steal_28000_drones_from_2km_away/

Encryption absent in pro-grade drones, so sniff the WiFi and replicate the signals

03/12/2016

New GPUs coming supposedly in Summer this year.

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-pascal-gtx-1080-8gb-1070-launching-summer-debut-april-gtc-2016/

Nvidia is reportedly preparing to debut its next generation Pascal graphics cards at GTC in April with a product launch at Computex in June.

03/04/2016

Addons bypassing built in security features from Mozilla, interesting and scary.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/03/04/0132248/mozilla-bans-popular-firefox-add-on-that-tampered-with-security-settings

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla has banned the popular (250,000+ installs) YouTube Unblock add-on that allowed users to view YouTube clips blocked in their country. The reason for this move is because the add-on was caught disabling a Firefox security setting (code signing) which the allowed it.…

02/22/2016

Luckily they retracted it, I had some issues with this so just spreading the word.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2447177/updategate-windows-10-is-resetting-default-apps-back-to-microsoft-stock

But won't be drawn on forced update issue

12/31/2015

http://www.foreigndesknews.com/world/us/exclusive-microsoft-to-warn/

12/23/2015

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/researchers-solve-the-juniper-mystery-and-they-say-its-partially-the-nsas-fault/?mbid=social_fb