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Comment Re: This is why we need more people like (Score 1) 113

I believe you have a fundamentally flawed view of what this is about. Netflix and other services definitely pay for interconnection as does all web sites/services as you note. At stake is paying for transmission beyond your own interconnect. If you run a web site and it got popular - like this one - you would already be paying to host it but Charter et al wishes to charge for increased usage at the end user interconnect and, since consumers would revolt, back charge that to the content distributor.

Submission + - Insecure healthcare.gov Allowed Hacker To Access 70,000 Records In 4 Minutes (computerworld.com) 3

Submitted by cold fjord
cold fjord writes: Computerworld reports, "... white hat hacker David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec, may feel like he’s beating his head against a stone wall. Kennedy said, "I don't understand how we're still discussing whether the website is insecure or not. ... It is insecure — 100 percent." Kennedy has continually warned that healthcare.gov is insecure. In November, after the website was allegedly “fixed,” he told Congress it was even more vulnerable to hacking and privacy breaches. ... “Out of the issues identified last go around, there has been a half of a vulnerability closed out of the 17 previously disclosed ... other security researchers have also identified an additional 20+ exposures on the site.” ... Kennedy said he was able to access 70,000 records within four minutes ... At the House Science and Technology Committee hearing held last week ... elite white hat hackers — Kevin Mitnick, Ed Skoudis, Chris Nickerson, Eric Smith, Chris Gates, John Strand, Kevin Johnson, and Scott White – blasted the website’s insecurity. ... Mitnick, the 'world's most famous hacker' testified:"... It would be a hacker's wet dream to break into Healthcare.gov ... A breach may result in massive identity theft never seen before — these databases house information on every U.S. citizen! It's shameful the team that built the Healthcare.gov site implemented minimal, if any, security best practices ... ""
GNU is Not Unix

Microsoft Makes Second GPLv2 Release 218

Posted by Soulskill from the baby-steps dept.
angry tapir writes "Microsoft has made its second release under the General Public License in two days with software for Moodle, an 'open-source course management system that teachers use to create online learning Web sites for their classes[, which] has about 30 million users in 207 countries.' It comes on the heels of Redmond contributing drivers to the Linux community. No reports as yet on dropping temperatures in hell."

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