TELECOM Digest     Thu, 1 Feb 2007 23:33:00 EST    Volume 26 : Issue 33

Inside This Issue:                           Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Going on a Phishing Expedition; Want to Join Me? (Patrick Townson) 
    Men Released From Jail in Boston Hoax Case (Denise Lavoie, AP)
    Identity Theft Losses Fall (Jonathan Stemple, Reuters)
    Visa License Forbids Virtualization (Peter Cohen, Mac Central)
    Cell Phone Offerings Set to Boom in Next Four Years (Reuters News Wire)
    Alcatel-Lucent to Still Develop IPTV Platform (USTelecom dailyLead)
    Re: Bill to Curb Online Predators Criticized (Linc Madison)
    Re: Boston Police Make Arrest in Devices Ploy (Garrett Wollman)
    Re: Boston Police Make Arrest in Devices Ploy (Sam Spade)

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From: Patrick Townson <ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Going on a Phishing Expedition; Want to Join Me?
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 20:00:00  EST


Google has presented us with a rather huge list of sites at which
malware/phishware has been spotted.  You may wish to examine this
list with any existing software you are presently using to filter out
phishermen, etc. Its quite a large list; over 3000 entries and very
difficult to manipulate. My thinking is perhaps add it to your 
procmail.rc file.

http://telecom-digest.org/phishing

PAT

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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:07:03 -0600
From: Denise Lavoie, AP <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Men Released From Jail in Boston Hoax Case


By DENISE LAVOIE and JAY LINDSAY, 
Associated Press Writers

In nine cities across the country, blinking electronic signs displaying 
a profane, boxy-looking cartoon character caused barely a stir.

But in Boston, the signs -- some with protruding wires -- sent a wave of 
panic across the city, bringing out bomb squads and prompting officials 
to shut down highways, bridges and part of the Charles River.

Something that may have been amusing in other cities was not funny to
authorities here, the city that served as the base for the hijackers
who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks. Officials defended their
reaction Thursday even as two men charged in the case, and some
residents, mocked the response as overblown.

Young Bostonians familiar with the unconventional marketing tactics
used by many companies tended to see the city's reaction as
unmitigated hysteria.

Tracy O'Connor, 34, a retail manager, called the police response "silly 
and insane," contrasting it with that in other cities where no one 
reported concerns about the devices; an advertising gimmick for the 
Cartoon Network show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force."

"We're the laughing stock," she said.

Public safety officials and a large segment of Boston's older
generation condemned the publicity campaign as unthinkable in today's
post-9/11 world.

"Just a little over a mile away from the placement of the first
device, a group of terrorists boarded airplanes and launched an attack
on New York City," police Commissioner Edward Davis explained to
reporters from The Associated Press.

"The city clearly did not overreact. Had we taken any other steps, we 
would have been endangering the public," he said.

Davis said that as calls were coming in about the electronic signs in
rapid succession Wednesday afternoon, police also received reports of
two devices that resembled pipe bombs and had a confirmed report of a
man walking down the hallways of New England Medical Center making a
rambling speech about "God getting us today" and "This would be a
sorry day."

Davis, who took his job in December, said he didn't know of any calls
coming in to the Boston 911 line.

Officials found 38 blinking electronic signs on bridges, a subway
station, a hospital, Fenway Park, and other high-profile spots in and
around the city.

In New York, officers went to various locations and found only two of 
the devices -- both attached to a highway overpass. Police said it did 
not appear it was targeting any landmarks such as the subway, Empire 
State Building or Brooklyn Bridge.

"People can be smug and say all you have to do is look at this and
know this is not an explosive device, but the truth of the matter is
that you can't tell what it is until it's disrupted," Davis said.

Officials have vowed to hold responsible Turner Broadcasting Inc., the
parent company of the Cartoon Network, which airs the series about a
talking milkshake, a box of fries and a meatball.

Two men who authorities say were paid to place the devices around the 
city pleaded not guilty Thursday to placing a hoax device and disorderly 
conduct. Peter Berdovsky, 27, and Sean Stevens, 28, were released on 
$2,500 cash bond -- apparently amused by the situation, even though they 
face up to five years in prison.

They met reporters and TV cameras and launched into a nonsensical 
discussion of hair styles of the 1970s. As they walked off, Berdovsky 
gave a more serious comment.

"We need some time to really sort things out and, you know, figure out
our response to this situation in other ways than talking about hair,"
Berdovsky said.

Late Thursday, Berdovsky released a statement through a Boston law
firm.  It said he "never imagined" the devices would be perceived as
dangerous and he never intended to do anything to frighten the
community.

"I regret that this incident has created such anguish and disruption
for the residents and law enforcement officers of this city," the
statement said.

The devices didn't prompt calls of concern in any of the nine other
cities where Turner said the devices were placed. Police in the other
cities fanned out to find and remove them after Boston's scare.

Some enterprising people got to the devices before police: At least
seven were for sale Thursday afternoon on the Internet auction site
eBay, ranging in price from $500 to $2,100.

Most of Boston's colleagues in law enforcement in the other cities
chose their words carefully.

"I wouldn't want to give my opinion but in today's world it's better
safe than sorry. Someone (in Boston) clearly thought there was a
threat," Atlanta police Officer Joe Cobb said.

In the Seattle area, authorities thought the devices were "obviously
not suspicious."

"In this day and age, whenever anything remotely suspicious shows up, 
people get concerned -- and that's good," King County sheriff's Sgt. John 
Urquhart said. "However, people don't need to be concerned about this. 
These are cartoon characters giving the finger."

Tobe Berkowitz, an advertising professor at Boston University, said
it's easy to understand why there is a generational gap between the
way the target audience for the promotional campaign reacted and the
way older Bostonians reacted.

"For people who are hip and live in the world of blogs and all sorts
of cool alternative media, it's one thing," he said. "But for the rest
of us ... they don't get it as a marketing or a clever event, they see
it as a huge disruption of their lives."

The publicity campaign was conceived by the Adult Swim marketing
department and approved by the head of the Cartoon Network, Turner
spokeswoman Shirley Powell said Thursday. She said the devices had
been up for two weeks around the country and the network had not
received any calls about them.

"We were simply promoting a TV show," she said. "If we had ever
perceived this to be something threatening safety, we would never have
proceeded with it."

The network told the marketing company to decide where the devices
should be placed, with the mandate they should be in places likely to
be seen by young men. Adult Swim's target audience is men aged 18 to
24.

The marketing company that placed the signs, Interference Inc. of New
York City, did not return calls seeking comment and its offices were
closed Thursday.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.

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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:09:45 -0600
From: Jonathan Stempel <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Identity Theft Losses Fall


By Jonathan Stempel

Americans lost about $49.3 billion in 2006 to criminals who stole
their identities, an 11.5 percent decline that may reflect increased
vigilance among consumers and businesses, a study released on Thursday
shows.

Losses declined from a revised $55.7 billion in 2005, according to the
third annual study by Javelin Strategy & Research. They had increased
in each of the prior two years.

The average identity theft fraud fell 9 percent to $5,720 from $6,278,
while the median -- where half were larger and half were smaller --
held steady at $750.

"Businesses are doing a better job screening, and consumers are doing
better at locking up information and monitoring their accounts," said
James Van Dyke, founder and president of Pleasanton, California-based
Javelin, in an interview.

"The dollar amount is dropping," he added, "but $49 billion is still a
lot of money."

According to the study, 8.4 million adult Americans, or one in 27,
learned last year that criminals committed fraud with personal data
such as credit card or Social Security numbers. That's down from 8.9
million in 2005 and 10.1 million in 2003.

Adults under 25, African-Americans, and people who make more than
$150,000 were among the groups most likely to suffer fraud, the study
said. The youngest adults were also among the least likely to take
steps to stop it, the study said.

Consumers on average spent $535 to clear up a fraud, though more than
half spent nothing, the study said. Many businesses excuse customers
from liability for certain frauds.

Results were based on a phone survey last fall of 5,006 people,
including 469 who said they were fraud victims.

The survey was sponsored by Wells Fargo & Co., the fifth-largest U.S.
bank; Visa, the credit card association; and CheckFree Corp., which
makes bill paying software.

Notwithstanding the apparent decline in fraud, security experts say
identity theft remains a big problem, as scammers try to stay one step
ahead of consumers and businesses.

Some are fighting back. U.S. regulators, for example, ordered banks by
the end of last year to require a second form of identification before
letting many customers transact online.

Yet security breaches still occur. In January, TJX Cos., which owns
clothing discounters T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, reported a breach that
analysts said might have exposed millions of people's personal data.

"We think consumers need improved ability to monitor and customize
account information, especially as transactions move increasingly to
the Internet and mobile devices," Van Dyke said.

Experts urge consumers not to divulge personal data in response to
unsolicited e-mails or callers.

They also suggest that consumers notify financial services providers
and file "fraud alerts" with the Equifax, Experian and TransUnion
credit bureaus if they suspect identity theft.

Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. 

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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:12:12 -0600
From: Peter Cohen <maccentral@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Visa License Forbids Virtualization


by Peter Cohen - MacCentral

If you want to run Microsoft's new Vista operating system on a Mac
using Parallels Desktop for Mac, you're going to have to buy the
Enterprise or Ultimate editions. Parallels' Ben Rudolph recently
posted about the issue on the official Parallels Virtualization Blog.

With the release of Vista, Microsoft has reworded its End User License
Agreement (EULA) to forbid the use of Vista Home Basic and Home
Premium Editions with virtualization products like Parallels and
VMware.  Macworld has confirmed the information with a Microsoft
spokesperson.

'USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software 
installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise 
emulated) hardware system,' reads the EULA.

That doesn't preclude Vista Home editions from being installed on Macs 
running Boot Camp, however, since Boot Camp isn't a virtualization or 
emulation technology;  instead, it makes Windows run natively on the 
Mac. For now, however, Boot Camp is still in beta development, and still 
officially works only with Windows XP.

Meanwhile, the EULA included with Vista Enterprise and Ultimate
editions allows that operating system software to be installed on
virtual or emulated hardware systems.

In short, this means that if you're a user and you want to run Vista
virtually, you MUST buy the highest end versions of Vista, or you'll
be in violation of the Microsoft EULA, writes Rudolph.

Most customers using this technology are primarily business users
addressing application compatibility needs, or technology enthusiasts,
said a Microsoft spokesperson. So virtualization will be supported in
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate and Vista Business SKUs. Home users
have rarely requested virtualization and so it will not be supported
in Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium SKUs.

The issue for users is price: Microsoft sells its Home editions of Vista 
for $199 or $239, while Business and Ultimate editions cost $299 and 
$399 respectively.

To me, this strategy could hold back users who embrace cutting-edge
technologies like virtualization, which means they won't upgrade to
Vista. This means that Microsoft has effectively lost an upgrade
customer (in the case of Windows PCs) or an entirely new customer (for
Mac and Linux users), writes Rudolph.

Copyright 2007 Mac Publishing LLC


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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:15:12 -0600
From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Cell Phone Offerings Set to Boom in Next Four Years


The market for content and services on cell phones is expected to grow
to $150 billion by 2011, as access to the Web while on the move
becomes easier and faster, research from Informa Telecoms & Media
showed.

The research firm said on Thursday that applications such as messaging
led by traditional SMS messaging would still account for a lion's
share of this market, generating over half of this revenue in 2011.

Informa predicted messaging services comprising SMS, multimedia
messaging and instant messaging on cell phones will generate revenues
worth $93 billion globally by 2011 from $60 billion last year and an
expected $67.4 billion in 2007.

Entertainment services comprising games, music, TV, adult content and
gambling would grow to $38 billion by 2011 from around $18.8 billion
in 2006, it said.

"Mobile music will be a major contributor to the revenues achieved in
the mobile entertainment market in the next five years, although its
overall share of the market will fall from 40 percent in 2006 to 36
percent in 2011 as new forms of entertainment such as mobile TV and
video services begin to gain consumer interest," Informa said in its
report.

Not all of the explosion in new services, although helped by the
availability of broadband speeds on cell phones, would go to cell
phone operators.

"The introduction of a whole host of new players into the value chain
presents new opportunities for growth in the mobile content and
services market, whilst simultaneously posing a threat to mobile
operators who face losing control of the billing relationship with
their customers," Informa said.

It also forecast areas such as user-generated content, the rage of the
Internet world in 2006, to come into the cell phone world in the years
ahead. Informa forecast user-generated content and communities to be
worth $13.2 billion by 2011.

Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited.

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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 12:18:11 CST
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Alcatel-Lucent to Still Develop IPTV Platform


USTelecom dailyLead
February 1, 2007
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/gdoMfDtusXlvcTCibuddVTwv

TODAY'S HEADLINES

NEWS OF THE DAY
* Alcatel-Lucent to still develop IPTV platform
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* AT&T offers pay-per-use PTT
* Sprint delivers Revision A to three new markets
* ADC finds BigBand Networks buyer
* Motorola makes investment in DARTdevices
* Apple, Cisco extend iPhone talks
* Distributive Networks settles unwanted-text-message suit
USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT
* USTelecom applauds bill to ban Internet tax
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
* Sybase 365 nearly doubles SMS deliveries
* Video-sharing sites look to escape YouTube's shadow
* U-blox chip speeds GPS tracking

Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/gdoMfDtusXlvcTCibuddVTwv

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Subject: Re: Bill to Curb Online Predators Criticized
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:20:44 -0800
From: Linc Madison <lincmad@suespammers.org>


In article <telecom26.32.2@telecom-digest.org>, Joe Garofoli,
Chronicle Reporter <sanfranchron@telecom-digest.org> wrote:

> the Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act of 2007 ...

So, do we parse the acronym as *KID* *SPA* (as in children in a hot
tub) or as *KIDS* *PA* (as in "who's your daddy?")? Either way, it
sounds like it should've been written by Mark Foley.

Anyway, "keeping" the Internet devoid of sexual predators is rather
like "keeping" Baghdad free of car bombs: you have to *get* it free
before you can *keep* it free. That's just one reason I agree that
this bill is much more show than substance.

The other thing I'd like to see far more of is proactive effort at
teaching the kids how to spot online personas they should steer clear
of. It's all fine and good to work at taking predators off the net,
but shouldn't we teach the potential prey a thing or two about staying
out of harm's way? After all, we teach kids to look for traffic before
we teach them to drive. If they're old enough to be on the Internet,
they're old enough to be told some of the things that should set off
alarm bells:

* Any photo of you that spends a nanosecond on the Internet is out in
public forever. Therefore, never e-mail *ANYONE* a photo that you
wouldn't want your mother to post on your fridge or your worst enemy to
post on every locker in school.

* Any info you put online that identifies your name, address, or
telephone number, or even just what school you go to, is really useful
for creepy people who want to track you down and hurt you. Make sure
you only give that kind of info to people that you know *offline*.

* If you're under 18, and an adult starts talking sexy, and then wants
you to dress up or shave "down there" or otherwise do something to
make you look even younger, RUN AWAY *SCREAMING*. The "talking sexy"
part is "smoke," but the "look younger" part is a five-alarm fire.

* If anyone -- a grownup or another kid -- tries to push you into a
sexual situation, that person is not being a good friend, not even a
little bit. That includes "if you REALLY love me," and "you're not
some kind of a prude, are you?" and any other comments meant to
embarrass you or emotionally blackmail you into sex.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note:  What I heard is that the acronym is
simply 'KIDS' for the first part of the total expression, or 'KIDSPA'
(without the hyphen). Your rules of thumb are pretty good, but I 
would make one change: In your rule "If you are under 18 and an adult"
I would drop the 'if you are under 18 part' .... and just say if that
sort of thing happens for anyone -- after all, the person you are 
chatting with _is_ essentially a stranger -- my advice would be to
cut the connection then and there, unless you do things like that
for total strangers. And regards your last rule, "if you really love
me" I do not see how that could be possible (love) based on the very
limited conversation to date.  And I would possibly add another rule
to those you have given: generally, stay away from Yahoo, AOL or MSN
chat. Those three, along with IRC are about the biggest wastes of
time and bandwidth on the net.  

Finally, feel free to transmit http://telecom-digest.org/honesty.jpg
several times during an open chat session. PAT] 

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From: wollman@csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: Boston Police Make Arrest in Devices Ploy
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 07:08:41 UTC
Organization: MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory


In article <telecom26.32.1@telecom-digest.org>,
Ken Maguire, AP  <ap@telecom-digest.org> wrote:

> Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said he'll seek to punish those
> responsible, and indicated that the penalty could be two to five years
> in prison per count.

What Mumbles didn't mention was that, in order to convict someone
under the state's "hoax device" law, prosecutors must prove "intent to
cause anxiety, unrest, fear or personal discomfort to any person or
group of persons" (M.G.L. chap. 266, sec. 102a1/2(a)), which seems to
this untrained eye rather unlikely.

-- 
Garrett A. Wollman   | The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are
wollman@csail.mit.edu| nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry
Opinions not those   | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape
of MIT or CSAIL.     | our history. - S.J. Gould, Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: See another message elsewhere in this
issue of the Digest. The 'terrorists' have been released from jail; I
doubt personally it will go any further.  PAT]

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From: Sam Spade <sam@coldmail.com>
Subject: Boston Police Make Arrest in Devices Ploy
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:55:34 -0800
Organization: Cox


Ken Maguire wrote:

> The marketing firm that put them up has been ordered to remove them 
> immediately, said Phil Kent, Turner chairman.

> "We apologize to the citizens of Boston that part of a marketing
> campaign was mistaken for a public danger," Kent said. "We appreciate
> the gravity of this situation and, like any responsible company would,
> are putting all necessary resources toward understanding the facts
> surrounding it as quickly as possible."

Hope they lock that jerk Turner up along with his lackey Kent.  How 
arrogant can they be?  He makes it sound like Boston authorities are the 
folks out of line since other cities haven't noticed them.

Doesn't speak well for Homeland Security.

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