Re: [LINK] Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit

2013-12-29 Thread Jan Whitaker
At 10:15 AM 30/12/2013, Kim Holburn wrote: >http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-effort-to-spy-on-global-networks-a-940969.html > > > On-Call Digital Plumbers http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a-

Re: [LINK] Wireless Broadband for Regional Australia

2013-12-29 Thread Jan Whitaker
At 10:27 AM 30/12/2013, Tom Worthington wrote: > >> Australia now has free Internet access in public libraries, which is an > >> achievement. ... So what? QOS is bad. The problem is contention for bandwidth in those places and lack of trained IT staff. Neither come cheap to provide. Our library

Re: [LINK] Wireless Broadband for Regional Australia

2013-12-29 Thread Tom Worthington
On 28/12/13 17:41, Richard responded to my posting of 28/12/13: > ... anywhere genuinely fast connections are available, and people > subscribe to them like mad? Good question. Does anyone have statistics for the take-up rate for high speed broadband in other countries? The take-up rate for the

[LINK] Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit

2013-12-29 Thread Kim Holburn
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-effort-to-spy-on-global-networks-a-940969.html > On-Call Digital Plumbers > > One of the two main buildings at the former plant has since housed a > sophisticated NSA unit, one that has benefited the most from this expan