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December 7, 2018
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all
December 5, 2018
DSL ISPs still lie about providing advertised high speeds.
The truth is that the DSL providers, Bell included, for decades now too often provide their minimum speed and not their advertised high speeds and why as it is all still downright unacceptable ?
The Internet has become an essential tool for every consumer in the digital age. The public deserves better from the providers, truth in their advertising even still.
Undeniably the DSL still can’t provide promised speeds profitably.
The median speeds provided by cable and fiber networks are still generally at least 100 percent of their advertised speeds. But DSL networks still aren’t providing the “up to” speeds they promise to consumers., the promised download speeds.
“DSL shortcomings aren’t a surprise, as speeds over copper degrade with distance, so homes farther from a DSL provider’s plant get lower speeds. DSL ISPs can boost speeds by laying fiber deeper into their networks, reducing the distance that data must travel over the old copper telephone lines. But also the providers’ continued poor performance indicates that they haven’t added enough fiber to their networks to eliminate the discrepancy between advertised and actual speeds.
So instead of advertising “up-to” rates like other DSL providers, many of them to the ignorant consumers “advertises a speed range for DSL performance and often meets the minimum advertised speeds but didn’t provide the maximum speeds they had promised.
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/crtc-farcical-hearings-on-internet-speed-control/
http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/bell-bce-sympatico/
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/is-your-isp-still-even-watching-you/
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/the-war-against-bell/
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/bell-throttles-internet-speeds/
April 1, 2017
BELL STILL LIES
October 26, 2015
Your Internet provider could be short-changing you
In the last year 2/3 of users complained about the internet in Canada, even that it is too costly, Bell got the highest number of complaints.
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We all should be really concerned now whether Internet service providers such as Bell, Verizon are misleading customers with slower-than-advertised speeds. Your Internet provider could be mostly short-changing You, consumers by charging them for faster broadband speeds and failing to deliver the speeds being advertised. Now each company should provide copies of all the disclosures they have made to customers, as well as copies of any testing they may have done to study their Internet speeds. We deserve the Internet speeds they pay for. But, it turns out, too many of us may be paying for one thing, and getting another. It seems they all still lie, are guilty of false, misleading advertisements. Most broadband providers claiming to offer super-fast Internet connections may be rather delivering service that is slower than advertised. It is immoral that the broadband speeds that you pay for are so unsubstantiated in reality.
THERE ARE TOO MANY PIGS IN THE INTERNET, CELL PHONE PARLOUR STILL
BELL HAS TO CAP IT’S INTERNET CUSTOMERS’ USAGES, DOWNLOADS AND OFTEN TOO, TO MAKE THE ROOM FOR THE WIRELESS PHONES AS WELL . BELL REALLY DOES NOT HAVE EXISTING ADEQUATE CAPACITY FOR BOTH, NOT EVEN FOR THE HIGH SPEED INTERNET SERVICES IN ALL AREAS OF CANADA. IT IS CLEARLY TOO CHEAP TO SPEND CAPITAL TO DO THIS ?
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/bell-throttles-internet-speeds/
Consumers are being caught in the middle of greedy telecomm companies.. It’s the Telcomm companies who have rooked us all and laughing all the way the bank.
WHEN IT NOW COMES TO THE ISP, INTERNET PRICING THERE FIRSTLY ARE STILL NO VIABLE ARGUMENTS, OR PROOF THAT THE OVERALL NETWORKING SYSTEM CAPACITIES ARE BEING EVEN NOW OVER BURDENED BY A FEW PERSONS, HEAVY USERS FOR RATHER SOLELY THE MAIN UNDENIABLE PROBLEM IS THAT TELECOMMUNICATION GIANTS FIRMS THEMSELVES HAVE TOO OFTEN MISLED, DO MISLEAD THE PUBLIC AS TO THE DEGREE OF THEIR ACTUAL SYSTEM CAPABILITIES, SPEEDS AND EVEN THE RELIABILITY OF THEIR SERVICES NOW AS WELL AS I HAVE EVEN DETAILED THIS FOR YEARS NOW TOO.
the 10 Commandments are still applicable today for all, corporations and business persons included
Bell Canada to pay a penalty of $10 million for making misleading advertising claims
Bell, Shaw and Rogers still can’t seem to provide good customer services! why? It is basically cause they still do not care for the customers as they still are too greedy solely for the customer’s money..
The top 3 “Canada’s Worst Cell Phone Bill” belong to Bell, Rogers, Virgin and next no matter how their spin doctors lie about it, make false promises to change it they all are still bad in reality.
A probe should also be focused on so-called interconnection arrangements, or contractual deals that Internet service providers strike with other networks for the mutual exchange of data. customers paying a premium for higher speeds may be experiencing a disruption in their service thanks to technical problems and business disputes over the interconnection agreements. The Internet service provider interconnection has a substantial impact on consumer Internet performance – sometimes too severely. It should also review the actual speeds delivered to consumers over “the last mile,” a term that refers to the point where a telecommunication chain reaches a retail consumer’s devices.
The customers who are paying a premium fee for higher internet speeds could be experiencing a disruption to their service due to technical issues brought about by business disputes in these interconnection deals. According to a study conducted last year [PDF] by the Measurement Lab Consortium (M-Lab), customers can suffer from slow internet speeds because of these relationships. There is a strong “possibility that interconnection arrangements may in some instances render irrelevant any benefit” of paying for a “premium” option
Bell it is a poorly regulated monopoly ..
BELL or BCE HAS SADLY NOW BEEN GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER.. WITH MUCH TOO MUCH FALSE ADVERTISING, CONSUMER ABUSES, PRICE GOUGING, POOR SUPPORT SERVICES…. ANY DOUBTS AS TO HOW BAD BELL IS.. NOTICE THAT MY BELL POSTING TEND TO SAY IN THE TOP TEN OF ALL MY SUBJECT POSTS.
see also
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/the-rich-get-richer-bell-included/
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/bell-needs-to-be-regulated-legislated/
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/so-much-for-any-promised-consumer-protecton/
May 22, 2015
November 19, 2014
Canada’s big bad Telecom
It was amazing and sickening to hear them argue that Canadians should be blocked from affordable Internet access options. They are powerful, but we have a new crucial opportunity to fight back. Josh Tabish OpenMedia
Big Telecom plans to use a crucial, rapidly-approaching hearing to kill indie Internet services in Canada. If successful, they’ll be able to block you from companies offering affordable, next-generation Internet services, and continue to price-gouge Canadians
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We’re facing a situation where, soon, your only choice could be between price-gouging Big Telecom giants – an unbelievable power grab for Big Telecom.
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We know that Canadians pay some of the highest prices in the world for some of the worst Internet service. And a big part this is because Big Telecom has been given gatekeeper powers before…
…a nd abused them.
https://openmedia.org/powergrab/
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Net neutrality” has been built into the fabric of the Internet since its creation — but it is also a principle that we cannot take for granted. We cannot allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas. So the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has to implement the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality.” We cannot allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas,” “I believe the FCC should create a new set of rules protecting net neutrality and ensuring that neither the cable company nor the phone company will be able to act as a gatekeeper, restricting what you can do or see online.” Obama said in a statement released by the White House. President Obama’s call for “net neutrality” – the notion that any and all content should be treated equally by Internet providers – should cause the Federal Communications Commission to regulate broadband service like a utility as a way to protect consumers’ ability to access all content without a threat of connectivity being throttled. Us President Obama called for prohibiting ISPs from blocking or deliberately slowing any legal content. His proposals also include a recommendation to mostly ban paid-for “fast-lane” access, in which a content provider refusing to pay extra would be subject to slower Internet transmission and to reclassify consumer broadband Internet service and regulate it as if it’s a utility – like electricity and water – as many consumer advocacy groups have asked for a similar strategy to protect unfettered access. The simple, common-sense rules include:
- No blocking. If a consumer requests access to a website or service, and the content is legal, your ISP should not be permitted to block it. That way, every player — not just those commercially affiliated with an ISP — gets a fair shot at your business.
- No throttling. Nor should ISPs be able to intentionally slow down some content or speed up others — through a process often called “throttling” — based on the type of service or your ISP’s preferences.
- Increased transparency. The connection between consumers and ISPs — the so-called “last mile” — is not the only place some sites might get special treatment. The FCC to make full use of the transparency authorities the court recently upheld, and if necessary to apply net neutrality rules to points of interconnection between the ISP and the rest of the Internet.
- No paid prioritization. Simply put: No service should be stuck in a “slow lane” because it does not pay a fee. That kind of gatekeeping would undermine the level playing field essential to the Internet’s growth. An explicit ban on paid prioritization and any other restriction that has a similar effect.
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June 23, 2014
Can Bell do it’s job and provide me now their proper services?

Net neutrality” has been built into the fabric of the Internet since its creation — but it is also a principle that we cannot take for granted. We cannot allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas. So the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has to implement the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality.” We cannot allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas,” “I believe the FCC should create a new set of rules protecting net neutrality and ensuring that neither the cable company nor the phone company will be able to act as a gatekeeper, restricting what you can do or see online.” Obama said in a statement released by the White House. President Obama’s call for “net neutrality” – the notion that any and all content should be treated equally by Internet providers – should cause the Federal Communications Commission to regulate broadband service like a utility as a way to protect consumers’ ability to access all content without a threat of connectivity being throttled. Us President Obama called for prohibiting ISPs from blocking or deliberately slowing any legal content. His proposals also include a recommendation to mostly ban paid-for “fast-lane” access, in which a content provider refusing to pay extra would be subject to slower Internet transmission and to reclassify consumer broadband Internet service and regulate it as if it’s a utility – like electricity and water – as many consumer advocacy groups have asked for a similar strategy to protect unfettered access. The simple, common-sense rules include:
- No blocking. If a consumer requests access to a website or service, and the content is legal, your ISP should not be permitted to block it. That way, every player — not just those commercially affiliated with an ISP — gets a fair shot at your business.
- No throttling. Nor should ISPs be able to intentionally slow down some content or speed up others — through a process often called “throttling” — based on the type of service or your ISP’s preferences.
- Increased transparency. The connection between consumers and ISPs — the so-called “last mile” — is not the only place some sites might get special treatment. The FCC to make full use of the transparency authorities the court recently upheld, and if necessary to apply net neutrality rules to points of interconnection between the ISP and the rest of the Internet.
- No paid prioritization. Simply put: No service should be stuck in a “slow lane” because it does not pay a fee. That kind of gatekeeping would undermine the level playing field essential to the Internet’s growth. An explicit ban on paid prioritization and any other restriction that has a similar effect.
Canadians are even paying more for all communications services. Canada’s broadcast and telecom regulator has released new numbers on how much Canadians spend on communications services, revealing the total bill for the average household climbed to $191 per month last year.
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The Federal Trade Commission says AT&T’s practice of slowing down the connection speeds of unlimited-data customers who tap excessive amounts of data is a failure to deliver on the promise of “unlimited.” As a result, the FTC on Tuesday filed a federal court complaint against AT&T, charging the wireless provider with misleading customers who signed up for an unlimited-data plan only to see their connection slowed in an industry process called “throttling. “AT&T promised its customers ‘unlimited’ data, and in many instances, it has failed to deliver on that promise,” . “The issue here is simple: ‘unlimited’ means unlimited.” http://www.cnet.com/news/ftc-sues-at-t-for-limiting-speeds-on-unlimited-data-customers/
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Consumers are being caught in the middle of greedy telecomm companies.. It’s the Telcomm companies who have rooked us all and laughing all the way the bank.
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Bell too now has made money not only by their too often unjustifiable rates increase but also by their false extra billings. Bell is not at all known as a decent, moral company, holding to acceptable professionals standards, for that matter clearly too none of the major Canada telecommunication firms are, rather monetary greed has overtaken them all.. Bell often claimed that it was not making enough money but still became rich enough to buy CTV.. The Bell customer complaints still abound too.
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When I had agree to go into a contract with my internet provider at a fixed fee, for specific services, including repairs, this is not an opportunity for the internet provider Acanac next to falsely, unscrupulously try to shaft me with extra billing of 100 dollars to check my internal phone line, a fee that I had already paid last year, and what they want me now to pay it every year too? as it seems to be the common practice instead of rightfully offering me their past free promised support services.
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Now I have noticed that for years when it rains my internet services is crappy, slows down.. and recently my browsers have been very slow in loading, and I cannot even watch the news video at CTV news or at the National Post cause they cut out.. Now I have suspected the problem is squirrels, there are 6 in my back yard this week.. Note this also “ A Winnipeg man says squirrels are taking a bite out his telephone lines. James Mattson, who lives on Christie Road in south Winnipeg, said it’s been happening since last spring. “There’s something in that wire that the squirrels seem to snack on. What they’ll do is they’ll burrow into the outer core of the wire which is vinyl or plastic and then there’s bundles of wires inside and they’ll pick away at that,” he said. James Mattson points to the telephone lines that squirrels have damaged near his home. (Jill Coubrough/CBC) Yes it’s impacting Mattson’s services. His phone, Internet. “It’s frustrating. It just keeps on happening and happening ,” he said, adding it’s happened nine times in two months. So squirrels damaging wires is a common industry problem. Deal with it.. and stop falsely lying, passing the buck as it being my problem solely.
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PS they still have yet to fix the problem
They claim they have to first replace the modem to see if it is the problem and then they will check the exterior phone lines.. Rubbish they replaced the modem now even 3 times and what next?? Still bad services..
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The system works great on a nice sunny day, but not when it rains, at least once a week. I had installed their new Modem and after all this I still have network connectivity problems, i lose the network connection periodically..
Step 1 – Contact a customer service representative discuss any concerns you have about your service preferably not in writing cause most of them seem not to be able to read English.
If you’re not completely satisfied with the resolution at this step, proceed to step 2.
Step 2 – Speak with a pretentious, useless in denial supervisor
If you’re not completely satisfied with the resolution provided at this step, proceed to step 3.
Step 3 – Contact the pretentious Customer Relations Centre and they will gladly disconnect your services
Note: You must complete the first two steps of the escalation process to have your problem supposedly to be resolved in the most efficient manner for them, not yours..
Additional Useless steps
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A – If you were not satisfied with the resolution provided in the previous steps, you may file a complaint with the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS). The CCTS is an agency independent of the telecommunications industry. Their mandate is to resolve complaints of individual and small business retail customers about their telecommunications services.
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If you have a complaint about your services, including local or long distance phone service, mobile phone service or Internet service, you must try to resolve it with Bell before contacting the CCTS. If you have done so and have been unable to reach a satisfactory resolution, CCTS may be able to help you, free of charge.Learn more about CCTS at www.ccts-cprst.ca or call toll-free at 1 888 221-1687.
December 15, 2013
Merry Christmas
October 9, 2013
Confidential For Law Enforcement Use Only
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Bell data collection part of ‘disturbing trend’ By making its networks available, Bell Canada has promoted competition in the internet market, but finding a common ground with the smaller ISPs has been difficult. The critics say the idea of a telecommunications firm such as Bell – which is at once an internet service provider, cable TV provider and phone carrier to many of its customers – implementing a similar scheme is part of a trend that will have serious implications for how Canadians’ personal information is used “One thing I’m hearing a lot is the anger that people are already paying for this service. And on top of that they’re going to be sort of spying on you, collecting private and intimate data on you…. It’s like the straw that breaks the camel’s back,” said David Christopher, communications co-ordinator with the non-profit advocacy group OpenMedia.ca, which has received dozens of complaints about Bell’s announcement.the federal privacy commissioner’s office plans to investigate whether the Bell scheme meets federal rules governing how private companies handle customer information.John Lawford, executive director of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, said Bell’s targeted ad system could also raise concerns at the CRTC. Its regulatory policies direct internet service providers not to use personal information “collected for the purposes of traffic management” for any other reason, and directs them not to disclose personal customer details.A spokesperson for the CRTC said in an email to CBC News that the agency is “aware of the situation and looking into it.” |
Google’s Eric Schmidt Says NSA Spying on Data Centers is “Not OK” Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said that the NSA’s alleged spying on data centers is “outrageous” and that its strategies of pulling hundreds of millions of records to find a few hundred is “bad public policy” and even “illegal.” Google has registered complaints with the NSA, President Barack Obama and members of Congress. Reports are floating around that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on Google’s data centers, and the company isn’t happy about it. “It’s really outrageous that the National Security Agency was looking between the Google data centers, if that’s true,” said Schmidt. “The steps that the organization was willing to do without good judgment to pursue its mission and potentially violate people’s privacy, it’s not OK. The Snowden revelations have assisted us in understanding that it’s perfectly possible that there are more revelations to come. “The National Security Agency allegedly collected the phone records of every phone call of 320 million people in order to identify roughly 300 people who might be a risk. That’s just bad public policy…and perhaps illegal. There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don’t have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.”
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“I can tell you that we do not target Canadians at home or abroad in our foreign intelligence activities, nor do we target anyone in Canada. In fact, it’s prohibited by law. Protecting the privacy of Canadians is our most important principle.” The head of Canada’s electronic eavesdropping agency, John Forster, chief of the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC),
AND HOW COME I DO NOT BELIEVE HIM? hey we know there are even Canadian Muslim terrorists..
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Brazilian President demands Canada explain spying report The Globe and Mail-Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff says Canada has violated her country’s sovereignty and demanded an explanation …
Brazil demands Canada explain spying allegations Globalnews.ca-
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Inside Canada’s top-secret billion-dollar spy palace CBC.ca-
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Canadian spies met with energy firms, documents reveal The Guardian-.
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Spy agency CSEC needs MPs’ oversight, ex-director says
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The former National Security Agency systems analyst, Edward Snowden, said that the mass surveillance programs used by the United States to tap into phone and internet connections around the world are making people less safe. “They hurt our economy. They hurt our country. They limit our ability to speak and think and live and be creative, to have relationships and to associate freely,” Now the U.S. government was “unwilling to prosecute high officials who lied to Congress and the country on camera, but they’ll stop at nothing to persecute someone who told them the truth.” Snowden said http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/10/12/3685316/snowden-mass-surveillance-making.html#storylink=cpy
You probably saw on the news that a U.S. government agency has been caught secretly spying on the private communications of millions of people like you – through their cell phones, and through popular online services like Google, Facebook, and Skype .Now, The Globe And Mail is reporting that Canada has its own agency operating in near-total secrecy that appears to be doing the same thing – recklessly collecting and storing our most sensitive private information in giant databases. This is important: We need to know what sensitive private data is being collected and stored, and why. Call on the government to tell us the truth about their reckless online spying program immediately. https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/private-data-is-being-collected-and-stored-in-canada-why/
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The ongoing mass surveillance programs used by the cops in Canada are really big unacceptable waste of resoorces, manpower, money and still too often abusive, as there are still much too many bad cops… by the way they spy on Canadian citizens as well.. me included for telling the truth about them.. ehh but I do not care as I have nothing to hide.. but they have more to lose.. https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/for-decades-the-police-have-had-a-file-on-me-and-likley-you-as-well/
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August 9, 2013
The full extent of Internet crime – MICROSOFT FIRSTLY FAILED TO DO IT’S JOB
“Right now, the Internet currently has 2.6 billion people using it. It would be fair to say two-thirds are exposed,” says a digital forensic and security expert . If ONE were to recreate the Internet now it would NEED TO be done a whole lot differently as it was originally designed as a way to communicate and they had refused originally to include in the design the thinking also of the security needs. Most people with a computer still do not have adequate security protection and they do as a result have loads of viruses even on their own computers still.. they need better software protection. https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/the-average-illiterate-computer-users-are-taking-a-great-risk/
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Microsoft Corp. is paying a hacking expert more than $100,000 for finding security holes in its software, one of the largest such bounties awarded to date by a high-tech company. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/us-business/hacking-expert-wins-more-than-100000-exposing-microsoft-security-holes/article14746287/
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Be aware of what’s happening. Be mindful of what you are clicking on.. Be aware of what you are downloading. Be aware of what e-mail you accept.. Be careful before you open your removable media. Many malicious programs attack your computers and spread via USB storage. USB Disk Security can protect your computer against any threats via removable media. Update Windows and other programs often too. Computers are vulnerable to many threats that can inflict various types of damage resulting in significant losses.
One reason for the multitude of security concerns faced by all computer users is that the internet and the operating systems were originally even not developed with computer data security in mind, thus many of the techniques security professionals are now trying to put putting into place are reactionary and the hackers are using these same methods to overcome the securities… Attackers have many choices when deciding whom to target when attempting to steal sensitive information. They can target the consumer, their computer, the connection between the computer and the E-Commerce site, or the web server and the services that allow it to run properly for a start..
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The “state-of-the-art internet hacking ” prevails because there were and are so many back doors accessible (Definition of ACCESSIBLE. 1: providing access. 2. a: capable of being reached ; also: being within reach world wide do cause major damage or security breaches do still too often occur..
” The official Royal Navy website was shut down after a hacker compromised its DATA SECURITY Computer details of former and current defence staff were posted online by an unknown Romanian citizen known only via his codename as TinKode. The hacker, who claims to have committed the breach after detailing the incident on his blog, posted the “hash values” for staff passwords on the internet. These hash values are essentially a key for cybercriminals to enable them to easily crack user passwords.”
How do you know your computer is Protected or infected? Unfortunately, there is no one security program even that protects against all hackers.. sad but true, and there is no particular way to identify that your computer has been infected with malicious code. Some infections may completely destroy files and shut down your computer, while others may only subtly affect your computer’s normal operations. All are undesireable.
If someone is spying on your computer, usually a remote connection from another computer is used. Remote control of a computer is a big problem because not only is someone spying on you, but this method of spying leaves certain ports, or “back doors,” open. This causes system damage and allows computer viruses to install themselves through these doors without your knowledge.
” The security measures of online retailers vary immensely. The methods used to gather, store, and distribute information is implemented differently across the web. Many companies and corporations that collect sensitive data do not have proper security protocols put into place, which may compromise personal information. Common errors that online businesses make when processing transactions will be analyzed and critiqued. This includes information security and the protocols that they should put into place both in terms of their computer infrastructure, data collection and the establishment of personnel protocols, such as the handling of sensitive information and password changes. The transactions between the client and server will be examined along with the protocols used in the sharing of information, such as secure socket layers and their different certificates, encryption and security measures that are utilized. E-commerce firms must ensure that they control access to their information assets and the use of their networks by designing and implementing controls that will diminish the dissemination of sensitive information. There are possible vulnerabilities on a client’s machine that can lead to data being compromised before it is uploaded to the server. There are a multitude of possible scenarios where sensitive data can be stolen or misplaced when processing an online transaction. The methods used to steal and compromise sensitive data is dynamic and ever changing. Their purpose is to target applications and architectures that are widely used, such as instant messaging, email, standardized shopping carts, redundant coding schemes, database programs, and security techniques and encryption. Traditional E-commerce security can be broken down into a three-tier model where the client, server, and database are The monitoring of sensitive information, authentication techniques, virus detection tools, fraudulent connection discovery, database storage, encryption techniques, virus and cracking vulnerabilities, and firewall protection is required by all…”
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Even today still the 2 biggest requests I get besides can I have some money? are what do I do with my Problem spouse? and my problemed, slow Computer
see also
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/windows-7-vista-computer-operating-systems/
April 30, 2013
Canada’s monopolistic , self serving, greedy , immoral telecommunications firms
Bell Canada Slapped With $1M Fine For Faking App Reviews. Canada’s Competition Bureau is imposing an a $1.25 million fine on crooked Bell Canada for posting online reviews of its products and services. The posts were made by the company’s own employees who did not disclose their relation with the company. Bell employees encouraged by the company to post good reviews and give five star ratings to the MyBell Mobile and Virgin My Account apps.
The alleged fake posts were found out by Scott Stratten who already knew how the apps performed poorly in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. Then suddenly, he noticed how the apps started to increase its rankings which made him curious. He decided to do some research at LinkedIn and learned that most of the reviews came from various staff members of Bell such as the company’s IT Executives, Marketing Managers and Project Managers. These reviews and ratings created the “materially false or misleading” general impression that they were made by independent and impartial consumers and temporarily affected the overall star rating for the apps. This misleading advertising under Canadian competition law is prohibited as it creates the false impression that independent consumers have had positive experiences with that product or service . The Competition Bureau said certain Bell employees in November 2014 posted positive reviews and ratings of the new version of the free MyBell Mobile app and Virgin My Account app on the iTunes App Store and the Google Play Store, without disclosing that they work for Bell. The Commissioner of Competition announced that it had entered into a Consent Agreement with Bell Canada in connection with certain Bell employees posting misleading reviews and ratings of the company’s mobile applications. Under the terms of the Consent Agreement, Bell must not “direct, encourage or incentivize its employees or contractors to “rate, rank or review apps in app stores.” Additionally, the Consent Agreement requires Bell to enhance and maintain its compliance program and pay a $1.25 million administrative monetary penalty. Many companies plant reviews to bolster products and perhaps now they will think twice knowing the Competition Bureau could take serious action.”It’s sending a message to everybody, saying ethics are important and we will be watching over it.”. Bell says positive employee-planted reviews will stop, but critics unsure
http://www.ct-tc.gc.ca/CasesAffaires/CasesDetails-eng.asp?CaseID=385
Canadians can access broadband using either wire line or wireless facilities but in order to meet the high demands of cell phones, Canada’s major telecommunications firms and their subs they are failing to deliver the capacities as originally promised, Canada’s major telecommunications firms and their subs they are not keeping their contractual obligations, are falsely cutting back on internet capacity and speeds, so all of this is still a major issue with Canada’s major telecommunications firms and their subs.. while they advertise a certain speed but likely you next still only get half of it as they cap their downloads and speeds.. https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/can-bell-do-its-job-and-provide-me-now-their-proper-services/
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Five Canadian consumer and public interest groups say that Bell and Astral’s new proposed merger is not in the public interest and should be denied. Five Canadian consumer and public interest groups say that Bell and Astral’s new proposed merger is not in the public interest and should be denied. The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), who also acts as counsel for the Consumers’ Association of Canada (CAC), Council of Senior Citizens’ Organization of British Columbia (COSCO), National Pensioners and Senior Citizens Federation (NPSCF) and Option consommateurs (OC) filed comments with the CRTC on Friday opposing the proposed acquisition of Astral Media Inc. by Bell Canada, a division of BCE Inc. “Increased media concentration into the hands of few large vertically integrated telecommunications and media companies will not result in more competition in the market,” said John Lawford, PIAC executive director and general counsel, in a statement. “The loss of Astral in the marketplace does not deliver more competition for consumers. Any increases to Bell’s size will further threaten the ability of independent broadcasters and broadcasting distributors to effectively compete against the highly concentrated, tight oligopoly of large media companies that own both broadcasting and distribution services.” The groups stated the deal would be bad for consumers and outlined several concerns, including: http://www.cartt.ca/news/15358/Radio-Television/PIAC-other-consumer-groups-speak-out-against-Bell-Astral-II.html
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The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), who also acts as counsel for the Consumers’ Association of Canada (CAC), Council of Senior Citizens’ Organization of British Columbia (COSCO), National Pensioners and Senior Citizens Federation (NPSCF) and Option consommateurs (OC) filed comments with the CRTC on Friday opposing the proposed acquisition of Astral Media Inc. by Bell Canada, a division of BCE Inc. The consumer advocacy group is asking the CRTC to turn down the Bell-Astral merger for a second time, saying a bigger Bell won’t be better for competition or choice. The advocacy group says the market already isn’t meeting consumers’ expectations for choice, flexibility and affordability, and approving the deal doesn’t promise to make the situation any better. http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/05/07/business-bell-astral-piac.html
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Cogeco also still opposes revised Bell-Astral deal, saying it’s not good for consumers. “Canadian consumers of television entertainment can only expect rising costs for their viewing options on fixed and mobile platforms, more forced packaging of BCE services and less choice in the selection of services they actually wish to use,” the company said in a news release.
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In Canada these days there is a big public outcry about legal tax avoidance by big firms. It also now seems obvious in retrospect that self regulation also does not work. Effective supervisions, vigilance , controls are always needed.. I also do still think it’s time to break up the telecom monopoly in Canada as these mostly still robber barrons cant be trusted with freedom on the internet or with our phones…
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https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/tag/telecommunications-firms/
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One sided contracts are illegal as any contract is illegal when it is either contrary to a statute or is contrary to public policy. and all illegal contracts are not enforceable. Thus if you enter into an agreement with another person and you know or have reason to suspect the bargain has some taint of illegality or immorality merely don’t take the risk and exposit it to all.
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According to Canada’s Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services 2011-2012 report, wireless services topped the complaints list. In the rising flood, Telus was the only company among Canada’s big three that had a drop in complaints — 13 per cent. Bell chalked up a hike of 17 per cent and Rogers Communications complaints rose by a whopping 112 per cent. Among cable service providers, Shaw saw complaints climb 335 per cent.” https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/tag/bell-aliant/
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Those sly subversive foxes at the CRTC TEND STILL TO SOLELY FOR THEIR OWN INTEREST and all very very far from the pretense that is to the consumer benefit. To promote competition and to prevent market abuse by the largest players there needs to be a mix of effective oversight, and regulation to allow real competition in the marketplace to take hold with real price decreases now too
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It is clear the rich do continually get richer by satisfying their immoral greed by drastically creaming off profits, and not fulfilling their promised responsibility by investment in adequate Customers services. It seems obvious in all retrospect that self regulation does not work where the main motive is monetary profit. Also these Profits do leave the country, that’s the problem! They tend rather to go off to tax havens and we don’t see their further benefits. The past privatisation of any of our basic essential service needs, such as telecommunication and also Medicare, in order to provide profits for a few was and is always foolish, destructive approach. We must not tolerate any further citizen suffering caused by selfish profits, and it is time to bring back all of the basic utilities and essential services back into democratic control, and to renationalise them. it’s time all of the essential services, water, energy, rail, airlines and communications were all taken back into public ownership without any recompense to those who hold the shares. They have already taken more than enough in profits and dividends.
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Rogers, one of the largest telecom companies in the country, has found a way to block our access to affordable mobile services. We’re now looking at a future where just three mobile telecom giants could control a monopoly of the Internet and phones services, holding back progress and innovation. This is totally unacceptable.
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/tag/rogers/
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So Now still who really protects the ordinary Canadian citizens from the too often bad, immoral firms in reality, now holding the much too many crooked firms to accountability and next falsely if there is any justice it takes years to do so.. and for decades or not much good tends to happen next anyway.. as “We Have a Coin-Operated Government” Now you would think that our public and civil servants, politicians would by now know how to deal with all of these crooks without me having to tell them and all about it still.
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February 15, 2013
In case you think no one reads my blog:
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About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 180,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 3 years for that many people to see it. The blog had more visits than a small country in Europe! In 2012, there were 72 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 888 posts.
Some of my most popular posts included:
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NO GUN CONTROL IS MURDER.
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/no-gun-control-is-murder/
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Divorce And Remarriage In The Christian Church
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/divorce-and-remarriage-in-the-christian-church/
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Greedy, immoral Bell Canada lies, misleads, is crooked
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Drink Alcohol and Die
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/drink-alcohol-and-die/
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HEALTH CARE STILL NEEDS TO BE SERIOUSLY IMPROVED FOR ALL CANADIANS https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/health-care-still-needs-to-be-seriously-improved-for-all-canadians/
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I wrote years ago that anyone can and should be held accountiable for their abuse of our tax dollars. anywhere in Canada too. The most Popular subject was the need of accountability, and people reap what they sow too. This has been going on wrongfully for ages, unchecked still https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/this-has-been-going-on-wrongfully-for-ages-unchecked-still/
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Some of the more popular pictures included..
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