Verizon’s old phone network will stick around for connected devices

It’s no secret that Verizon wants to drop its legacy phone service like so much dead weight. But is the underlying CDMA network going to go away, too? Not for a long while, the carrier’s Fran Shammo says. He explains that CDMA will hang around for “internet of things” devices (think appliances, cars and machinery), which need only “small bursts” of data to communicate. The newer LTE network is still top priority — eventually, all of Verizon’s cellphones will depend on it — but it won’t completely replace the older technology for quite some time.

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Teen arrested for breaking an entire school district’s internet

A teenager from Idaho has landed themselves in hot water after arranging a takedown of their school district’s internet access. KTVB News reports that the 17-year-old student paid a third party to conduct a distributed denial of service attack that forced the entire West Ada school district offline. The act disrupted more than 50 schools, bringing everything from payroll to standardized tests grinding to a halt. Unfortunate students undertaking the Idaho Standard Achievement test were required to go through the process multiple times because the system kept losing their work and results.

The report goes on to say that authorities have found the Eagle High student from their IP address, and could now face State and Federal felony charges. If found guilty, the unnamed individual is likely to serve up to 180 days in jail, as well as being expelled from school. In addition, the suspect’s parents are going to be asked to pay for the financial losses suffered as a consequence of the attack. At the same time, a middle school student is also under investigation for attempting a similar attack shortly afterward. If there’s one lesson that we should take away from all of this, it’s that no matter what you do, you can never escape your exams.

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Via: Kotaku, The Daily Dot

Source: KTVB