On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:01:13 -0600 "S. Dale Morrey" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Read this... > http://www.ksl.com/?sid=26041962&nid=148&title=xmission-head-pete-ashdown-stands-against-requests-for-user-data > > Came away wishing the man would run for President in the next election > cycle. Pete's excellent on data privacy and technology issues, that's for sure. What's amazing, to me, about this story is how widespread it's been carried. Sure, the local media outlets are covering it, but it's also getting coverage in the UK as well as RT (Russia Today), Huffington Post, ArsTechnica, among many others. It's a sad testimony of the fact that XMission's protecting their customers' rights to privacy in the absence of a court-issued warrant puts them into a minority of ISPs operating anywhere. As Internet service continues to become a commodity provided by huge monolithic corporations with little or no real interest in serving the needs of their customers, this is exactly what you get. *sighs* Anyone who thinks Google Fiber is going to change anything is sadly mistaken. -- Doran L. Barton <[email protected]> - Linux, Perl, Web, good fun, and more! "It is strictly forbidden on our black forest camping site that people of different sex, for instance, men and women, live together in one tent unless they are married with each other for that purpose." -- A sign posted in Germany's Black Forest /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
