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Team Telecom, a shadowy US national security unit tasked with protecting America's telecommunications systems, is delaying plans by Google, Facebook and other tech companies for the next generation of international fiber optic cables.
Team Telecom comprises representatives from the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Justice (including the FBI), who assess foreign investments in American telecom infrastructure, with a focus on cybersecurity and surveillance vulnerabilities.
Team Telecom works at a notoriously sluggish pace, taking over seven years to decide that letting China Mobile operate in the US would "raise substantial and serious national security and law enforcement risks," for instance. And while Team Telecom is working, applications are stalled at the FCC.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/18/how-us-national-security-agencies-hold-the-internet-hostage/
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 26 2019, @09:22AM (10 children)
A suggestion...
Can you guys stop posting article after article after article that is paywalled?
I have zero interest to pay $15CAD to view 2 articles a month from techcrunch. The idea is laughable. At the rates I've been seeing the last 2 weeks, with all these paywalled articles, I'd be paying $500CAD/month, just to read an article or two from each source. Absurd. A joke. Insane.
Publishers need to get their head on straight, because this isn't the answer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 26 2019, @09:42AM (1 child)
Doesn't look [about] paywalled to me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 26 2019, @09:55AM
RU 4 realz?
Try to get past the opening statements on that page.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday July 26 2019, @10:04AM
This is the first time I've ever seen a paywalled article on TechCrunch. "Extra Crunch".
I guess TechCrunch will be sold for pennies in a couple of years.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday July 26 2019, @10:25AM (5 children)
Australia sees
Well... kthxbye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by inertnet on Friday July 26 2019, @12:38PM (4 children)
Same here in the Netherlands. I can't be bothered to try a US VPN endpoint, it's too hot around here.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday July 26 2019, @02:08PM (2 children)
Got to over 45C yet or still in the balmy 40-ies range?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 26 2019, @02:52PM (1 child)
Part of the problem is the housing. You insulate, and care greatly about insulation / air tightness, when it's -40C then +40C almost yearly. Or even just very hot, or just very cold.
https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/homes/learn-about-professional-opportunities/become-energy-efficient-builder/details-r-2000-standard/20588 [nrcan.gc.ca]
One standard developed here, includes houses so air tight -- that you need to use heat exchangers. I don't think the Netherlands, with its 400 year old buildings, or new buildings constructed for a horribly cold 4C to 20C, have anywhere near the same levels of insulation as Australian or Canadian homes.
So don't blame them, not really.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday July 26 2019, @10:57PM
Far from my mind to blame the Dutch people; and the typical house in Australia still have a crappy insulation (but, yes, better than a 200yo house).
What I was trying to convey: the new "normal" in regards with one what would expect from the temperatures around the year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by hwertz on Friday July 26 2019, @04:32PM
You're not missing anything. Don't bother with the VPN. I'm in the States, and you get about 1/2 paragraph (with same amount of info as the summary here on soylentnews). If you scroll past that, it almost immediately jumps to the techcrunch.com home page. After about the 3rd try with the back button, I finally saw (before it jumped to techcrunch.com AGAIN) that it was popping up a notice saying I needed to subscribe to read that article first. (Note to whoever at techcrunch: if you want people to read your subscription notice, you can't jump off the page to the home page like that.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 26 2019, @06:17PM
you're the only one clicking on the link. boo, to you! :)