Anonymous ID: 9a93bd Dec. 16, 2018, 7:46 p.m. No.4342021   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2068

California utilities panel cancels planned 'text tax' vote after FCC rules that texting is an 'information service'

 

Following a new FCC ruling, the California Public Utilities Commission has ditched its planned 2019 vote on taxing text messaging.

The CPUC revealed on Twitter Friday that it has decided not to go forward with a scheduled January 2019 vote to levy a 'text tax' following the FCC's ruling that text messages were an 'information service' — as opposed to a telecommunications service — meaning that texts aren't eligible for taxation under California state law.

The proposed text message tax was apparently being considered because, prior to the FCC's declaratory ruling on December 12, text messaging had not been classified as any kind of specific service under federal law.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6502367/California-utilities-panel-cancels-Text-tax-vote-FCC-rules-texting-information-service.html

Anonymous ID: 9a93bd Dec. 16, 2018, 7:58 p.m. No.4342157   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2181

Iranian hackers take aim at foreign nuclear experts and US officials

 

Government-backed Iranian hackers scrambled to break into the personal emails of US Treasury officials after harsh economic sanctions were reimposed on Tehran last month, a cybersecurity group said.

The hacking group, nicknamed Charming Kitten, also took aim at foreign nuclear experts in data tracked by Certfa analysts in the UK.

In another sign of how deeply cyber espionage is woven into the fabric of US-Iranian relations, nuclear deal defenders and detractors, Arab atomic scientists, Iranian civil society figures and Washington think-tank employees were on the hackers' hit list.

US President Donald Trump placed sanctions on Iran's energy, shipping, shipbuilding and financial sectors on November 4.

 

"Presumably, some of this is about figuring out what is going on with sanctions," Frederick Kagan, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, said.

Mr Kagan, who has written about Iranian cyber espionage and was among those targeted, said he was alarmed.

 

https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/iranian-hackers-take-aim-at-foreign-nuclear-experts-and-us-officials-1.803259