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Frontier apologizes to former Verizon customers [telecom]

By Alexander Soule Frontier apologized to new customers in Florida, Texas and California, acknowledging "this is not th...

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HTTP compression continues to put encrypted communications at risk [telecom]

HTTP compression continues to put encrypted communications at risk Researchers improve the BREACH attack to extract sen...

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Phone records from 1957 exonerate man convicted of murder [telecom]

I believe there was some discussion in telecom-digest about what turns out to be this case. > An Illinois prosecutor an...

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Apple doubles down on encrypted phones, while Google aims for 'digital vault' [telecom]

As Apple faces criticism from the FBI for refusing to help law enforcement break into iPhones, rival Google is sitting...

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Why I Don't Make Financial Decisions on My Smartphone [telecom]

By Shlomo Benartzi According to a recent survey by the Federal Reserve, 52 percent of adult smartphone owners use mobil...

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Contractor: Miscommunication caused CenturyLink outage [telecom]

(This report is from March 11) A construction company working on the Route 29 Solutions project said miscommunication w...

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Frontier rings in Verizon takeover by borking its network [telecom]

Handover doesn't appear to be going particularly well in three US states 1 Apr 2016 at 18:27, Shaun Nichols Frontier Co...

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Outages occur as Frontier takes over Verizon service in Tampa area [telecom]

By Jerome R. Stockfisch TAMPA - Frontier Communications hoped for a "seamless and unnoticeable" transition when it took...

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On day of Verizon's switch to Frontier, Texas customers finding frustrating fails [telecom]

By Jeffrey Weiss As anybody who has changed computers or service companies knows, the switchover can be ugly. Frontier...

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[telecom] MD Appellate Court Rebukes Police for Concealing Use of Stingrays

[The Intercept] Maryland Appellate Court Rebukes Police for Concealing Use of Stingrays A MARYLAND appellate court on W...

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The Real Story Behind The FBI Dropping The Suit With Apple [telecom]

By Frank Miniter The narrative is that the FBI, with the help of an outside party, managed to hack an iPhone used by on...

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FBI's Retreat from Apple Fight: A Reader Responds [telecom]

By Steve Rosenbush Some critics have maintained that it was clear from the start that the government could have cracked...

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How Apple, FBI can both claim victory: analysis [telecom]

By Jon Swartz San Francisco - In the end, like a peewee soccer game, everybody won. Apple wasn't forced to weaken its o...

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Verizon reportedly planning to share customer location data with AOL advertisers [telecom]

Tim Armstrong wants to forge a mobile marketing juggernaut to rival Facebook and Google. By Ben Popper It's been clear...

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Verizon customers may have been seriously overcharged [telecom]

by Michal Addady Verizon is currently facing claims that it has been overcharging customers for its landline service. C...

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