I'd send out notification to every customer of every wholesaler that they could, for a limited time, get a special deal with Bell due to their ISP going out of business (you know, one of those "a few months free or highly discounted then pay through the nose for two / three years" deals). Bell has these customer lists because they ultimately have to set up the service. Such a deal would be extremely time limited (see below).
I'd then shut down the wholesalers' service in an extremely quick shutdown, like within one or two weeks of when most customers would have received our notification. I wouldn't give them time to send out a similar letter to people.
Effect: Much more money, many more direct customers, and zero competitors. It has the added benefit of being able to fire a majority of their Nexxus staff since the division would no longer exist, so count massive cost savings into the equation.
But they do. Check out the reviews of TekSavvy on DSLreports. Vastly superior service to Bell that can't exist without government defended peering agreements.
Disclaimer: I am not employed, contracted, or a family member of anyone connected to TekSavvy.
TekSavvy (the best DSL provider I've ever worked with, Google for reviews, you'll understand) is still around, but this decision will probably kill them. It's a real shame.
Frankly, if I were Bell and the CRTC said I could do so, I would stop offering wholesale internet altogether immediately.
What business wouldn't love the opportunity to instantly and permanently kill all its competitors except those on completely different lines? Why adjust prices when you can just kill them off?
Yeah... you can't do it if your clients connect using PAP authentication.
I read that comment too. It seems... wrong to me. There absolutely must be a way of sending a hash instead of a plaintext password; even if the user is forced to send a plaintext password, it doesn't mean it has to be stored plaintext in the database.
Isn't the server completely under the control of the people running it, anyway? Don't they simply have to comply with the protocol, while all internal affairs of their connection manager are their own concern? Because that's the way that client-server programs have always worked when I've worked with them...
Err... Clearly you have not looked up the laws. USCBP can search anything and anyone, no reasonable suspicion required. See the Wikipedia article on the border search exception that drives this.
Wow. Not everything is a battle between left and right.
This is to stem the (quite legitimate) concern that your ISP could slow down your bought and paid for connection because the server on the other end didn't also pay them.
But feel free to keep that paranoia up, it makes the rest of us look like bastions of rationality by comparison.
At least one version of it was. I had the source code of the Facebook index.php file from when it leaked a while ago. Let's just say that it wasn't pretty.
Really? Do you have a link to back that up? I'm going to be adjusting status (i.e. applying for a green card) soon, and I am curious about my border records. Do they really mark on there, "FOIA REQUEST FILED, SCREW THEM OVER"?
As much as we (usually rightfully) talk shit about them, most departments of the US federal government have FOIA pages detailing how to send in requests, including the Department of Homeland Security.
To answer your question though (from the page I linked),
Information about another individual may be requested under the FOIA but release is subject to application of the balancing test to decide whether the privacy interest of the affected party outweighs the public interest in the release of said information.
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Lies. I would do it in a very controlled manner.
I'd send out notification to every customer of every wholesaler that they could, for a limited time, get a special deal with Bell due to their ISP going out of business (you know, one of those "a few months free or highly discounted then pay through the nose for two / three years" deals). Bell has these customer lists because they ultimately have to set up the service. Such a deal would be extremely time limited (see below).
I'd then shut down the wholesalers' service in an extremely quick shutdown, like within one or two weeks of when most customers would have received our notification. I wouldn't give them time to send out a similar letter to people.
Effect: Much more money, many more direct customers, and zero competitors. It has the added benefit of being able to fire a majority of their Nexxus staff since the division would no longer exist, so count massive cost savings into the equation.
I never said they were perfect. They're a shit-ton better than Bell though.
I'm pretty sure Bell outsources most of their tech support to India and/or the Philippines nowadays, so, y'know, progress.
But they do. Check out the reviews of TekSavvy on DSLreports. Vastly superior service to Bell that can't exist without government defended peering agreements.
Disclaimer: I am not employed, contracted, or a family member of anyone connected to TekSavvy.
TekSavvy (the best DSL provider I've ever worked with, Google for reviews, you'll understand) is still around, but this decision will probably kill them. It's a real shame.
Corruption and lobbying.
Frankly, if I were Bell and the CRTC said I could do so, I would stop offering wholesale internet altogether immediately.
What business wouldn't love the opportunity to instantly and permanently kill all its competitors except those on completely different lines? Why adjust prices when you can just kill them off?
Yeah... you can't do it if your clients connect using PAP authentication.
I read that comment too. It seems... wrong to me. There absolutely must be a way of sending a hash instead of a plaintext password; even if the user is forced to send a plaintext password, it doesn't mean it has to be stored plaintext in the database.
Isn't the server completely under the control of the people running it, anyway? Don't they simply have to comply with the protocol, while all internal affairs of their connection manager are their own concern? Because that's the way that client-server programs have always worked when I've worked with them...
You have MP3s, which means you're almost certainly violating copyright laws unless you have all the CDs or receipts with you. Enjoy.
Err... Clearly you have not looked up the laws. USCBP can search anything and anyone, no reasonable suspicion required. See the Wikipedia article on the border search exception that drives this.
You've just realized the entire theoretical basis for the Bush government and AT&T's warrantless wiretapping.
USCBP agents can demand your password and detain you until you give it, almost certainly.
More importantly, hasn't this company ever heard of password hashing?
I take it back, it should grow quite effectively assuming it can get enough sun.
As tough as this plant is, I think it still needs oxygen to grow in the first place.
Priest Vito Cornelius: You're a monster, Xorg.
Xorg: I know.
Wow. Not everything is a battle between left and right.
This is to stem the (quite legitimate) concern that your ISP could slow down your bought and paid for connection because the server on the other end didn't also pay them.
But feel free to keep that paranoia up, it makes the rest of us look like bastions of rationality by comparison.
"Give us money so we go away!"
...is why I still use POP3 or IMAP.
Trust me, the friends are a problem.
A problem you will want to stab repeatedly.
Play Sonic Adventure (all parts of it...) and you will understand.
At least one version of it was. I had the source code of the Facebook index.php file from when it leaked a while ago. Let's just say that it wasn't pretty.
I prefer it to be irrational. I like the idea that draconian measures have solved exactly pi crimes.
Really? Do you have a link to back that up? I'm going to be adjusting status (i.e. applying for a green card) soon, and I am curious about my border records. Do they really mark on there, "FOIA REQUEST FILED, SCREW THEM OVER"?
As much as we (usually rightfully) talk shit about them, most departments of the US federal government have FOIA pages detailing how to send in requests, including the Department of Homeland Security.
To answer your question though (from the page I linked),
Information about another individual may be requested under the FOIA but release is subject to application of the balancing test to decide whether the privacy interest of the affected party outweighs the public interest in the release of said information.
So probably not.
Your full, unencrypted credit card information available in our logs to every DHS employee is necessary for us to fight the evil terrorists.