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Archive | May, 2017
SpaceX to provide competition on Internet market
Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to start launching satellites into orbit in 2019 to provide high-speed internet to Earth.
In November, the company outlined plans to put 4,425 satellites into space in a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing. (…)
SpaceX argues that the U.S. lags behind other developed nations in broadband speed and price competitiveness, while many rural areas are not serviced by traditional internet providers. The company’s satellites will provide a “mesh network” in space that will be able to deliver high broadband speeds without the need for cables.
CNBC/Yahoo: Elon Musk’s SpaceX to send the first of its 4,425 super-fast internet satellites into space in 2019 »
Snowden & Doctorow on the future
The Verge: Watch Edward Snowden and Cory Doctorow imagine our hopeful, dystopian future »
11 Ways to Secure Your Social Media Accounts
The VPN Guru: 11 Ways to Secure Your Social Media Accounts »
EDRi on EU copyright reform and AVMSD
EU Copyright: Experts say no to link tax and censorship machine
Julia Reda, Pirate MEP: Experts unanimously slam EU copyright expansion plans – but are politicians listening? »
Is there an ongoing cyberwar, unknown to the public?
What happens when intelligence agencies go to war with each other and don’t tell the rest of us? I think there’s something going on between the US and Russia that the public is just seeing pieces of. We have no idea why, or where it will go next, and can only speculate.
Schneier on Security: Who is Publishing NSA and CIA Secrets, and Why? »
No reasonable ground to uphold arrest warrant for Assange
It is now the last day in April, five months since Assange was questioned about the rape allegations in Britain. However there is no word from Sweden either of the case against him being dropped or of the rape charges against him being pressed.
Meanwhile the European arrest warrant been not been cancelled, and the extradition request to Britain has not been dropped, even though their purported purpose – to have Assange questioned about the rape allegations – has been fulfilled in Britain.
Meanwhile the British authorities have taken no steps to review their grant of the Swedish extradition request notwithstanding that the purported purpose of that request – to return Assange to Sweden so that he could be questioned about the rape allegations there – has been fulfilled in Britain.