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Earlier this month, Brett Wentworth took Level 3 Communications Inc. into territory that most rivals have been reluctant to enter. The director of global security at the largest carrier of Internet traffic cut off data from reaching a group of servers in China that his company believed was involved in an active hacking attack.
The Broomfield, Colo., company handles roughly 40% of internet traffic and is taking an aggressive—and some say risky approach—to battling criminal activity. Risky because hackers often hijack legitimate machines to do their dirty work, raising the risk of collateral damage by sidelining a business using the same group of servers. Such tactics also run against a widely held belief that large carriers should be facilitating traffic, not halting it.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Marand on Tuesday June 02 2015, @12:48PM
* Homepage is listed as "//soylentnews.org" in the rss itself (<channel rdf:about="//soylentnews.org/">)
* Likewise, all the resource entries (used by readers to know what URL to load for the entry) are //soylentnews.org
* The auto-generated "Read more of this story as SoylentNews" has the same problem, with all the hrefs starting with //soylentnews.org
This happens regardless of whether the feed is accessed via http or https.
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A different URL problem, not related to the above: the "Original submission" link at the end of the article is linking back to the http version of SN instead of https. I believe that's still an editor-added thing and not automatic, but still, shame on whoever added it, you shouldn't be downgrading the user's connection within your site like that. :P
(Score: 4, Informative) by paulej72 on Tuesday June 02 2015, @02:48PM
fixed
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