04/12/19

[Maik]

Worst street for broadband speed ‘more than 800 times slower than fastest’

The UK’s worst street for broadband speed is more than 800 times slower than the fastest, an annual survey has found.

Kingsclere in Huntington, York, was identified as having an average speed of 0.22 megabits per second (Mbps), 830 times slower than Darwin Street in Livingston, Scotland, where average speeds stand at 182.52Mbps, according to uSwitch.com.

The results mean that a two-hour HD film on Netflix would take more than 65 hours to download in Kingsclere, whereas it would be a small wait of less than five minutes for residents in Darwin Street.

https://www.itv.com/news/2019-12-04/worst-street-for-broadband-speed-more-than-800-times-slower-than-fastest/

[Maik]

Greece Jails First Pirate Site Operator For Five Years

A man who faced four criminal prosecutions for copyright infringement has become the first person jailed in Greece for running a pirate site. After switching domains and evading enforcement efforts for a decade, the man has now been handed a five-year prison term by an Athens court.

https://torrentfreak.com/greece-jails-first-pirate-site-operator-for-five-years-191204/

[Maik]

Firefox 71 was released yesterday, includes 13 security updates. More info at securitygarden.

[Maik]

Four extensions from Avast/AVG have been pulled from the Mozilla store over concerns they track a user's activity on the web. So far still available for Google Chrome. More info at bleepingcomputer.com

[Maik]

Greece Hotly Disputes Turkish Claims on the Seas

With a seemingly unstoppable Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan laying claims to his country’s possession of large swathes of the Aegean and East Mediterranean, Greece said its neighbor has no right to areas extending to the islands of Rhodes and Crete.

Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias told SKAI TV that Turkey is using a kind of brute force strategy to insist Greece has no continental shelf, which he said is disputed by many rulings, speaking just after Turkey’s Foreign Ministry disputed Greece’s sea sovereignty near the island of Kastellorizo in the southern Aegean near the Turkish coast.

“There are dozens of decisions by jurisdictional organs that maintain the precise opposite to Turkey,” Dendias said, noting Turkey doesn’t recognize the United Nations’ Law of the Sea yet cites the law to make its claims and “groundless things” in negotiations.

Greece is also angry over a deal that Turkey signed with Libya setting new maritime zones between them, saying it likely violates an embargo that the United Nations Security Council has imposed on the supply of arms to Libya.

https://www.thenationalherald.com/271906/greece-hotly-disputes-turkish-claims-on-the-seas/