Christopher Leger

Intellectual Property, Individual Rights, and Technology

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DNS hijacking by your ISP

August 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Listening to the current episode of security now, I heard a very disturbing story from a listener. This listener is a Charter Communications ISP customer, and put OpenDNS into his router for his DNS server. He did this to patch the huge DNS security flaw that many ISPs are reticent to fix (including Charter). However, [...]

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Tags: FCC · Internet Security · Politics · Technology Policy · cable · networks

Digital Television Transmission

December 11th, 2007 · No Comments

February 2009 is the FCC mandated deadline for the end of analog over-the-air transmission. This affects only broadcasts received via antenna, and not transmissions received from a cable or satellite signal. There have been reports of cable company representatives giving incorrect information to analog cable subscribers, incorrectly telling them that analog cable transmissions will end [...]

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Tags: FCC · cable · television