Alternageek Episode 45: Throttling Smackdown

 

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In this episode we update you about the FCC deciding to lay some smackdown on Comcast’s P2P throttling, ISPs across the pond agreeing to throttle bandwidth of illegal filesharers, the recent DNS exploit in the wild, two controversial intellectual property bills being fused into one, network administration gone rogue in San Francisco and how passwords were made public, the newest release of IPCop, the Techcrunch Web Tablet project and safer Google mail with HTTPS.

We also address listener requests and talk about the Free Geek project and the difference between Gobuntu and gNewSense.

Link Love:

• Ars Technica - Hammer drops at last: FCC opposes Comcast P2P throttling
• ShinyShiny - ISPs agree to throttle broadband of illegal filesharers
• Hack A Day - DNS exploit in the wild
• Ars Technica - Senator fuses controversial IP bills into big, bad package
• C/NET - ‘Hijacked’ SF passwords made public
• InfoWorld - Why San Francisco’s network admin went rogue

What’s New:

• IPCop 1.4.20/1.4.21
• DistroWatch - IPCop 1.4.20/1.4.21
• The Techcrunch Web Tablet Project
• Google Blogoscoped - A Safer Gmail with Https

Community Projects:

• FREE GEEK
• LinuxWorld Expo - Installfest for Schools
• Untangle - Installfest for Schools @ LinuxWorld

For Our Listeners:

• Gobuntu
• gNewSense
• Blue-GNU - What makes Gobuntu different from gNewSense

Click here to download this episode in OGG format

AlternaGeek.com Podcast, Episode 45 for the week of July 28th, 2008 - Featuring Linuxchic and TechMonkey.