Skyway Recommended June 3rd to June 9th

Each Monday we’ll pass on links to articles we thought were well worth reading from the previous week, for those who live where we do (British Columbia, Canada), work like we do (high speed business internet), and think about things we do (internet trends, internet privacy, internet censorship, cutting-edge technology, etc.). If you don’t want to wait ’til Monday, we usually tweet and link to these as we come across them…

IT World Canada (Infographic) | The High Cost of BYOD

Mobile Security is considered Low, and Hacker Interest High. You be the judge…

Quartz | What Amazon’s push into online groceries is really about

Amazon is making a move into the online grocery business, offering delivery service to the Los Angeles area as early as this week, according to a Reuters report. Dubbed AmazonFresh, the service could be available in 20 other urban areas, including some outside the US, by next year. Read More…

IT World Canada | Toronto DNS provider recovering from DDoS attack

This is why every business must have DNS redundancy: A Toronto domain name management provider is recovering from a nasty distributed denial of service attack that hit DNS providers in at least three countries earlier this week. Read More…

IT World Canada | Ottawa nixes Telus-Mobilicity deal

The Harper government has refused to allow incumbent carriers to get hold of the wireless spectrum of new entrant carriers before a five year ban runs out next year, refusing to approve Telus Corp.’s purchase of struggling startup Mobilicity. Read More…

The Atlantic Wire | NSA Spying Goes Way Beyond Verizon

The National Security Agency’s warrant for metadata on every single Verizon call for three months is jaw-dropping in its scope. Except, well, the NSA’s surveillance of our communications is most likely much, much bigger than that. Technology has made it possible for the American government to spy on citizens to an extent East Germany could only dream of. Basically everything we say that can be traced digitally is being collected by the NSA. We’re supposed to trust that our government will be much better behaved, but they’re not, and the White House almost admits it. That doesn’t mean they’re admitting everything. Read More…