Hunting for Hackers, N.S.A. Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border
WASHINGTON — Without public notice or debate, the Obama administration has expanded the National Security Agency‘s warrant-less surveillance of Americans’ international Internet traffic to search for evidence of malicious computer hacking, according to classified N.S.A. documents. In mid-2012, Justice Department lawyers wrote two secret memos permitting the spy agency to begin hunting on Internet cables, […]
With health care as the model, Obama wrecks the Internet
Singer Taylor Swift is among the thousands of celebrities who, in a pre-emptive move to protect their reputations, reportedly have purchased URLs that follow their names with new extensions such as .sucks, .xxx and .porn. President Obama is doing for the Internet what he did for health care: making things worse. His slogan should […]
Sprint is Cuba Bound!
President Obama’s decision to normalize U.S. diplomatic and economic relations with Cuba, which has been considerably strained since 1961, has started showing results. Under Obama’s administration, new Cuban policy regulations have been approved by the Treasury and Commerce departments, which have helped the U.S. telecommunications industry to gain initial exemptions from the existing embargo […]
Biggest test in U.S.-Cuba talks: the Internet
Contrary to what the headlines suggest, the biggest test of President Obama’s move to normalize relations with Cuba will not be whether the two countries agree to set up embassies in their respective capitals, nor whether there is an avalanche of U.S. tourists to Cuba, but whether Cuba will accept U.S. help to expand Internet […]
Congress should let cities provide their own Internet
PRESIDENT OBAMA made it a point to highlight the importance of providing high-speed Internet access to all Americans in his State of the Union address last week. No one disagrees with the sentiment. The method he proposed, however — removing legislative barriers that prevent some cities and towns from creating their own Internet networks — […]
Mozilla preps the Web to push
While reaching out to supporters through probably the most latest high-tech means, President Obama extended his social media enjoy via retaining a Google+ video chat room interview on Monday afternoon. In an election year, it’s most certainly no longer good politics to talk about what you sit up for doing after it slow within the […]
Obama hosts Google ‘hangout’
While reaching out to supporters through probably the most latest high-tech means, President Obama extended his social media enjoy via retaining a Google+ video chat room interview on Monday afternoon. In an election year, it’s most certainly no longer good politics to talk about what you sit up for doing after it slow within the […]