Blackhacker

Few things in this world get me to cussing. When a grown man gets into my personal business is one of them.

AT&T rewrites rules: Your data isn’t yours
AT&T has issued an updated privacy policy that takes effect Friday. The changes are significant because they appear to give the telecom giant more latitude when it comes to sharing customers’ personal data with government officials.

Let’s understand. Who I call is only the business of me the person I call and those entities THAT I HIRE make the call possible. Being that I am the customer I feel those ENTITIES in my employ are are obliged to keep that information to themselves. THEY ONLY exception to this rule is when ordered by a court to do otherwise. I expect that their policies and practice to reflect these ideal. Anything less is a betrayal.

I suppose it is a good thing I am not a customer if AT&T. Verizon, this is for you TOO.

Coming off a disaterious IPO, Vonage must now defend itself in a Patent suit from Verizon.

This seems to jive with what Bobby X, has talked about in is latest column, where he feels that the whole Net neutrality debate, at least from the Telecoms POV is all about VOIP. I would tend to agree, that for the moment, the Telecoms, appose Net Neutrality because they they want to protect their businesses from these VOIP upstarts, and the success of VOIP really depends on the amount and quality of consistent bandwidth. I also believe that if not stopped hear the Telecoms won’t stop. The next logical service to hijack would be VOD.

PS:
That Bobby X link also has his thoughts on Bill Gates stepping down from duties at Microsoft. A good read for anyone who wishes to understand the inner working of Microsoft.

Spy Court Judge Quits In Protest
Jurist Concerned Bush Order Tainted Work of Secret Panel

By Carol D. Leonnig and Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, December 21, 2005; Page A01

A federal judge has resigned from the court that oversees government surveillance in intelligence cases in protest of President Bush’s secret authorization of a domestic spying program, according to two sources.

If they don’t need you … might as well go home.