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    What's an ISP? (That's not a trick question) 26/11/2008 09:34:00

    In essence, Amazon is now an ISP.
    As President-elect Barack Obama begins fleshing out his agenda, one promising sign is that he considers Internet infrastructure to be key, judging from both his stated goals and the caliber of people he's asking to advise him on policy.
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    YouTube's woes? You could be next 28/02/2008 08:57:11

    Elections aren't the only things in chaos in Pakistan these days
    Elections aren't the only things in chaos in Pakistan these days. The country recently decided to censor YouTube. Unfortunately, Pakistan botched the technology: It issued BGP routes that leaked, causing a worldwide reroute of all YouTube requests to a black hole in Pakistan -- taking YouTube off the global Internet for a couple of hours.
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    Wiretapping, whistleblowing and IT ethics 09/11/2007 08:16:10

    AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein has got Mark Gibbs thinking
    Recently a retired AT&T employee named Mark Klein announced at a Capitol Hill press conference that he had evidence that "An exact copy of all Internet traffic that flowed through critical AT&T cables ... was being diverted to equipment inside the secret room."
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    Carriers clueless on net neutrality 09/11/2007 11:38:01

    Providers have pretty much succeeded in reducing the debate right back down to a sound bite -- and positioning themselves on the wrong side.
    I've written several pieces pointing out that the issue of net neutrality is more nuanced than either proponents or opponents want you to believe. But with their characteristic cluelessness, providers have pretty much succeeded in reducing the debate right back down to a sound bite -- and positioning themselves on the wrong side.
 
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