What seemed like a vague industry possibility just a few months ago now seems like an inevitable certainty. Multiple carriers in North America are now either employing or considering monthly caps where users pay per gigabyte should they “over eat.”
Why Not Just Make Gluttons Pay For a Business-Class Tier?
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Computer attacks typically don’t inflict physical pain on their victims. But hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation’s Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images. The breach triggered severe migraines and near-seizure reactions in some site visitors who viewed the images.
“I count this in the same category of teenagers who think it's funny to put a cat in a bag and throw it over a clothesline ' they don't realize how cruel it is,” said Paul Ferguson, a security researcher at antivirus…
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