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	<title>Charter Watcher</title>
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		<title>Charter screws a father, but rewards the CFO. Surprised? (updated)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back Charter held a Father&#8217;s Day contest, promising a 65-inch television to the winner. A fellow named Mike Lewis won the prize when his daughter wrote in to the company explaining why he deserved it. Unfortunately, like most other promises, Charter completely failed to honor the 65-inch television. They sent him a 19-inch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charterwatcher.com/2008/charter-screws-a-father-but-rewards-the-cfo-surprised/</link>
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		<title>We won!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of yesterday Charter has suspended their illegal wiretapping program with NebuAD over privacy concerns. Reuters has the story here. The fight isn&#8217;t over though, because companies like Charter never stop looking for ways to make money (which is understandable), and sometimes those methods stomp all over you and I.
From the article:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charterwatcher.com/2008/we-won/</link>
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		<title>Charter lies about a lot more than just privacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago I saw a commercial for Charter Communications which featured a man in a suit sitting at a computer talking about fiber optics. He explained that Verizon was getting a lot of publicity of their FIOS service, but maintained that Charter had been using fiber optics for years, insinuating that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charterwatcher.com/2008/charter-lies-about-a-lot-more-than-just-privacy/</link>
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		<title>Some background on NebuAD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robb Topolski, author of the highly recommended and incredibly technical privacy report on NebuAD&#8217;s methods, made a comment on this site yesterday about NebuAD employees, asking if I would look into the rumor that some of them had previously worked for Gator, the notorious spyware company. At first I dismissed the rumor as just that; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charterwatcher.com/2008/some-background-on-nebuad/</link>
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		<title>How Charter and NebuAD are violating the U.S. Constitution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every American has heard of the concept we call &#8220;Freedom of Speech.&#8221; It is specifically listed in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and is the cornerstone of the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment actually covers five specific freedoms, those being:

The freedom of religion
Freedom of speech
Freedom of the press
Freedom of assembly
Freedom to petition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charterwatcher.com/2008/how-charter-and-nebuad-are-violating-the-us-constitution/</link>
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		<title>Ted Schremp gets a promotion!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Businesswire has an article about our friend and general douchebag Ted Schremp. It seems that Charter absolutely loves the way he outright lies to journalists, as he has now been promoted to chief marketing officer. From his new post he&#8217;ll be able to continue to spread BS about the new wiretapping program, as well as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charterwatcher.com/2008/ted-schremp-gets-a-promotion/</link>
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		<title>NebuAD is as bad as we thought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like everyone has a recent article on NebuAD&#8217;s technology, which was once thought to be simple deep packet inspection only. As it turns out, NebuAD is actually conducting browser hijacks and modifying packets. The legality of this kind of thing isn&#8217;t really questionable. NebuAD is actively engaged in criminal activity.
From the article at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charterwatcher.com/2008/nebuad-is-as-bad-as-we-thought/</link>
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		<title>Confirmed: Charter is listening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mediapost has an article this morning that showed up in Google Finance about Charter&#8217;s delay in selling our personal information to NebuAD. It seems like concerns over privacy may be partly to blame, but a quote from a Charter rep is the most telling part of this story.
From the article:
 A Charter spokesperson attributed the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charterwatcher.com/2008/confirmed-charter-is-listening/</link>
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		<title>Charter starts to feel the heat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article in the East Oregonian discusses Charter&#8217;s plans to begin wiretapping its customers, and explains why Charter has yet to flip the on switch just yet. After posting up several articles where Charter vice president Ted Schremp contradicts himself in explaining the technology, and further learning that NebuAD&#8217;s hardware doesn&#8217;t even function according to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charterwatcher.com/2008/charter-starts-to-feel-the-heat/</link>
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		<title>How Charter and the federal government monitor you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the most interesting conversation with a Charter employee on Thursday. A couple of weeks ago I was speaking with Carla Conner, who is Charter&#8217;s customer care advocate for government issues. After explaining my concerns, a task made difficult by her lack of technical background, I asked to be escalated to her boss. Several [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.charterwatcher.com/2008/how-charter-and-the-federal-government-monitor-you/</link>
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