Rumored to be a DDOS against #ATT, #Verizon, #T-Mobile / #Sprint ... if so, the others seem to be weathering it well. T-Mo/Sprint seems to be having some problems.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2020 17:19:13 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}#Yahoo (now combined with #AOL to form #Oath, a subsidiary of #Verizon) proposes to buy $117.5 million dollars worth of credit monitoring as compensation for people whose information was leaked between 2012 and 2016. . Credit monitoring is almost useless (because alerts happen after the fact; there are more effective services that basically turn off all credit inquiries, preventing the use of stolen info), and it also lasts for a limited time. If a badguy has your basic info and secret question info (third grade teacher's name, first pet's name, model of first car, mother's maiden name, etc) they can wait a couple of years and _then_ open accounts in your name.
@geniusmusing “The effort distracted the company from upgrading or repairing much of its fixed-line broadband footprint, since investing in networks isn't profitable enough, quickly enough, for many on Wall Street.”
LOL. They stopped investing in their network around the time that NYC got hit by a big storm. I remember reading that #Verizon told people whose telephones and Internet service stopped working to get #VZW cellphones and hotspots instead. They sold off their wireline networks in several states (including California, where things have improved quite a bit with Frontier after a shaky switchover). I’m pretty sure they aren’t expanding their FiOS fiber Internet network except in a very limited set of locations.
A plea to help keep the older Netscape / Mosaic web browsers from ceasing to function:
"Dear Lazyweb, tell me who inside of Oath / Verizon has the ability to edit the DNS records of the "mcom.com" domain. Or, preferably, just transfer the domain to me."