Anonymous embarrassed the F.B.I. in February

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Although nothing has been announced, the report has Netflix meeting with cable companies to discuss offering Netflix streaming as an add-on service that would be billed as part of a customer’s cable service, in much the same way premium channels like HBO, Showtime, and Netflix-defector Starz can be now. Netflix could be looking at deals with cable companies as a way to expand its potential audience beyond folks willing to hook up specialized boxes like a Roku, Apple TV, or a TiVo DVR, or access Netflix streaming through a home theater PC or game console — there are plenty of consumers out there who just want a “cable box” (and one remote) that can do it all.

For the cable companies, deals with Netflix could represent a significant business reversal. Cable operators have traditionally looked at “over-the-top” Internet streaming services like Netflix as competitive threats that encourage burberry beige handbag consumers to drop their expensive (and profitable) cable programming and just use broadband Internet access. However, by doing deals to bundle in Netflix service, cable companies could turn Netflix into a reason for customers to keep their cable service.

However, while Netflix has significant market momentum, cable operators haven’t been sitting idly by, wondering what to do about the popularity of streaming video. Verizon has just inked a deal with Redbox to launch a Netflix burberry bags competitor, and Comcast is rolling out StreamPix, its own streaming service intended to keep customers paying their cable TV bills and eschewing over-the-top streaming offerings.

Netflix may face additional challenges in inking deals with cable networks: many of Netflix’s content licenses do not include rights to deliver shows via cable television, so Netflix would either have to work out new and/or additional deals with studios, or let cable companies bear the licensing burden, offering only content that a particular cable company has rights to carry.

“Terrorists have shown interest in pursuing hacking skills,” Mr. Mueller said Wednesday in written testimony to a House appropriations subcommittee reviewing the bureau’s budget. “And they may seek to train their own recruits or hire outsiders, with an eye toward pursuing cyberattacks. These adaptations of the terrorist threat make the F.B.I.’s counterterrorism mission that much more difficult and challenging.”

Mr. Mueller said that the federal government must burberry sunglasses act swiftly to prevent such attacks and economic espionage from other countries because they pose a “potentially devastating” threat to the country’s businesses and infrastructure.

“We tend to focus on protecting our databases, protecting our infrastructure, which is absolutely an appropriate focus,” he said. “But we should not forget that you want to identify these individuals who are responsible for these crimes, investigate them, prosecute them and put them in jail for a substantial period of time.”

Mr. Mueller has been burberry kids skirts cheap particularly vocal over the past week about the issue of hacking and cybersecurity. Last Thursday at the RSA computer security conference in San Francisco, Mr. Mueller said that a terrorist had proclaimed in a recruiting video “that cyberwarfare will be the warfare of the future.”

Anonymous embarrassed the F.B.I. in February when it posted a 16-minute recording of a conference between the bureau and law enforcement officials in Europe about their joint investigation into the hackers. The group has supported the whistle-blower site WikiLeaks and has claimed responsibility for hacking the Web site of a law firm that represented a Marine accused of killing unarmed civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005.

On Tuesday, federal prosecutors in New York revealed that a leading hacker known as Sabu had been cooperating with the federal authorities, helping them to arrest several “hactivists” for Anonymous in the United States and Europe. Sabu was identified in court papers as Hector Xavier Monsegur, a 28-year-old who operated from a burberry bags outlet sixth-floor apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Mr. Monsegur pleaded guilty in August to dozens of hacking charges. On Tuesday, charges against five others, including a man in Chicago and others in Britain and Ireland, were unsealed by the prosecutors in New York.

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