Titanpointe – the ultra-top-secret NSA headquarters located smack dab in the middle of Manhattan (and the mysterious BLARNEY programs operating surreptitiously inside 33 Thomas Street).

AT&T Long Line Building as seen from the east along Thomas Street

In 2016, investigators pouring through leaked Edward Snowden documents made a startling discovery. The Long Lines Building was not just a communications hub but an ultra-secure data center and a monumental listening and data collection post for the NSA operating under inside a downltown-Manhattan building known as Titanpointe. According to the leaked documents, computer systems…

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Why some ISPs are throttling Netflix and what you can do about it

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It’s no longer just a theory – despite their denials, major ISPs are ignoring net neutrality rules and throttling Netflix bandwidth and Netflix has the proof in hand which they provide through their publicly-available monthly statistics reports. Here’s how to find out if you’re being throttled by your ISP, why ISPs throttle network traffic from…

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