Want to Stop Your Internet Provider From Selling Your Browsing Data? It Ain't Easy

This week, President Donald Trump signed the widelycriticized bill repealing FCC ISP privacy rules, which would have required internet service providers to get opt-in consent before selling customers’ web browsing history. The rules hadn’t actually gone into effect, but the bill’s passage was a wake-up call for…

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Charter Spectrum Tweeted Out Some Spectacularly Awful Security Advice

Charter is a major internet service provider, and the conduit between many Americans and their sweet, sweet internet. As such, one would think the company would have a basic grasp of how Wi-Fi security works—specifically, that it would know better than to tell its roughly 31,700 Twitter followers to change their Wi-Fi…

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