Technogaze

23 Aug 2014

The Internet is Full, Accidental Spying, Meta data and URLs

Technology

The vexing question of the week was looked at by Michael, Mark and Ty as rumours bombarded the Internet that it was indeed full!  Outages caused by routers reaching some preset limits at a number of ISPs has been identified as the root cause.  The challenge is how to upgrade the equipment software without causing too much downtime.

Fresh from their indignation of Angela’s Merkals phone being spied upon by the US, it appears that the German intelligence service (BND – Bundesnachrichtendienst) have spied upon Hillary Clinton.  Angela Merkel is still waiting on the BND to delete the recording as instructed.

Telstra has been helping ASIO and police forces for some time in providing meta data about internet usage.  This includes URL’s and raises the question yet again about the proposed mandatory data retention laws.

Apple is looking at giving the humble mouse and USB plug a makeover and Secret, the app, is banned in Brasil as it violates it’s constitution.

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