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TELECOM Digest Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:07:00 EST Volume 26 : Issue 45
Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
Book Review: Minoli-Cordovana's Authoritative Computer Security (Rob Slade)
CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update (communicationsdirect_daily)
Vodafone Submits Winning Bid For Hutchison (USTelecom dailyLead)
Bogus Credit Card Charges From VOIP Carrier (Jim Haynes)
Re: 1010-WINS Subway-Payphone Poll (Chris Farrar)
Re: 1010-WINS Subway-Payphone Poll (Henry Cabot Henhouse III)
Re: Use Skype WITHOUT Instaling Software? (harold@hallikainen.com)
Re: A Call to Let Your Phone Loose (Sam Spade)
Re: What About Areas Where Alphabet is Not Like Ours? (Colin)
Re: Bell System History Book (Danny Burstein)
Re: Telephone Area Codes and Prefixes (Linc Madison)
Re: Telephone Area Codes and Prefixes (Sam Spade)
Re: Telephone Area Codes and Prefixes (Neal McLain)
Stereo 3D Photography Capture Stereoscopic Images (icester)
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:35:52 -0800
From: Rob Slade <rMslade@shaw.ca>
Subject: Book Review: Minoli-Cordovana's Authoritative Computer Security
Reply-To: rMslade@shaw.ca
Organization: Vancouver Institute for Research into User
BKMCACNS.RVW 20070102
"Minoli-Cordovana's Authoritative Computer and Network Security
Dictionary", Daniel Minoli/James Cordovana, 2006, 0-471-78263-7
%A Daniel Minoli
%A James Cordovana
%C 5353 Dundas Street West, 4th Floor, Etobicoke, ON M9B 6H8
%D 2006
%G 0-471-78263-7
%I John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
%O 416-236-4433 fax: 416-236-4448
%O http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471782637/robsladesinterne
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471782637/robsladesinte-21
%O http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471782637/robsladesin03-20
%O Audience i- Tech 2 Writing 1 (see revfaq.htm for explanation)
%P 443 p.
%T "Minoli-Cordovana's Authoritative Computer and Network Security
Dictionary"
I find that, again, I need to declare the possibility of bias or
conflict in this review. Not only have I published a security
dictionary of my own, but my work was also intended, as the authors
announce in their preface, to be not simply a list of terms, but a set
of practical definitions, and even a commentary on the security field.
While my dictionary addresses only security, Minoli and Cordovana have
included computer and network in the title (and later mention that
they are including financial terms). However, the preface also makes
clear that security is the major thrust of the glossary: the first
two-thirds of the introduction basically preaches security, and the
remaining material even mentions a superior telecommunications
dictionary.
Therefore, it comes as a bit of a surprise that the first term that
has any direct connection to security comes on page four, and even
then is only the expansion of an acronym. We are on page eight before
we find the first actual definition that has even a nominal connection
to security. A random sampling of terms seems to indicate that less
than 20% of the entries in the work relate to security. (That
relation holds in terms of number of entries. The actual material
appertaining to security is proportionately less, since non-security
entries tend to be longer than those defining security phrases.)
A surprising number of terms deal with cellular telephone technologies
and standards, and the promised financial jargon is there in
abundance. It is, in fact, not always clear (even from the
definition) from which field a particular term comes. (Generally the
financial jargon is so identified, but I chased down a particular
thread through a number of entries, which task was not aided by the
lack of cross-references between terms, before I finally realized that
it was not an unusual security phrase, but a minor part of a specific
cellular telephone service.)
In regard to the security terms themselves, the value is questionable.
Like Phoha's "Internet Security Dictionary" (cf. BKINSCDC.RVW) the
authors have included twelve variations on the access theme, and
"access control" is only defined in terms of the old confidentiality
model. There are 28 variants on authentication, 13 on
vulnerabilities, and 20 on business with only three related to
security. Five "attacks" are listed, none major. There are seven
entries starting with "trojan": one is a definition, five are possible
types of trojans, and the last entry lists the previously defined
types. Eight phrases start with "Computing:" and include items such
as "Computing: Molecular Computers." Ten entries are components of
the United States' Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
[CALEA], which proliferation of American legal entries also points out
the US-centric nature of the work. There are entries for both "Domain
Name System" and "Domain Names System." (There is, so help me, a
definition for "one-time password" and another for "One-Time
Password.") There are two entries for grid computing, and they
contradict each other.
The "authoritative" part of the title seems to be based on the fact
that the references section lists over 500 articles, Web pages, and
books. (It's hard to judge what they are, since the list is not in
author, title, publisher, or even date order.) However, the entries
sometimes merely conflate material that seems to come from diverse
sources, without any attempt at analysis or explanation. (The
definition of "stateful inspection," for example, in one phrase is
talking about session state, and before the sentence is over has
switched to content examination.)
Some of the terms are idiosyncratic or seldom used, and there are
frequently multiple terms for the same concept. Again, it is not easy
to assess the amount of duplication that goes on, since there are
almost no cross-references between terms (and in those few instances
some of the alternate terms suggested don't actually exist in the
book). Even where a specfic technology may have major divisions
related terms aren't noted. (The "firewall" entry, for example,
doesn't even inventory the four major catgories, and "intrusion
detection system" lists neither the engine types nor the sensor
placement architectures.) However, by looking up terms known to be
related the reader can readily find not only multiple terms for
similar concepts, but frequently duplicated wording as well (see
"ankle-biter" and "script-kiddie").
One of the attacks catalogued, "attack on hash-and-sign signature
schemes" is much more widely known as the birthday attack, but there
is no corresponding entry under that term. (There is a definition for
birthday paradox.) There is an entry for CUT (Coordinated Universal
Time) but not the more widely used UCT. Some of the phrases used for
entries mean that people may not find what they are looking for: there
is "computer bug" but not "bug" (and no mention of implementation
versus design) as well as "computer evidence" and "computer forensics"
but not "evidence" or "forensics" (or "digital forensics").
Cryptanalytic attacks are defined under their own entries, but most
are also listed (and with more detail) under "Cryptanalysis, " [sic]
entries (and, again, there are no cross-references between them).
There is also an entry for "fork bomb" which is said to be equivalent
to "logic bomb" but is defined more as a processor exhaustion virus or
worm. "Kleptography" makes reference to "subliminal" and the
definition of "subliminal channel" gives an example of a covert timing
channel and then states that this is *not* what a subliminal channel
is. (Subliminal never is defined except to state that it is an
undetectable covert channel.)
Canonicalization defines only one of the many meanings (and that
possibly the least significant). Only one aspect of "race condition"
is given. "Digital money" (rather than the more commonly used digital
cash) has no mention of the requirements or technical challenges.
Feistel cipher never states the requirement for multiple rounds of
simple functions or the iterated subdivision of blocks. The
definition of low-level format does not mention that it operates at
the physical, rather than logical, stratum (and it states,
incorrectly, that a low-level format destroys all data on the disk).
A number of entries are for specific (and often obscure) products and
little used processes. There are five entries related to crypto-
viruses, occupying three pages, whereas the definitions for worm
and virus combined don't exceed three column inches. (Within that
brief space are at least three factual errors, and there are many
important factors that are missing. "Vaccine," which term has not
been seriously used in years and then only for a specific type of
change detection, is said only to be a program to detect and disable
viruses.)
There are a great number of extremely silly typographical errors, such
as rile instead of role, pc rather than PC, ant-keylogger versus anti-
keylogger, and competing for computing.
There are other, and better, communications dictionaries. There are
other, though older, computer dictionaries. There are other security
dictionaries, and, even excluding my own, I could not say that this
glossary has any advantage over them.
copyright Robert M. Slade, 2006 BKMCACNS.RVW 20070102
====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer)
rslade@vcn.bc.ca slade@victoria.tc.ca rslade@computercrime.org
It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere,
made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the
brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you
didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things
happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog
and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then
going out and doing terrible things to other ordinary people.
- `Jingo,' Terry Pratchett
Dictionary of Information Security www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=4150
http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm
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Subject: CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update
From: communicationsdirect_daily <communicationsdirect_daily@communications>
Reply-To: communicationsdirect_daily-owner@communicationsdirectnews.com
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:05:59 EST
********************************
PricewaterhouseCoopers Presents
The CommunicationsDirect Daily Update
For February 12, 2007
********************************
Vodafone Wins Control of Hutchison Essar with US$11.1-bil. Bid
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/22652?11228
Vodafone has agreed to buy the 67% stake in Hutchison Essar held
by Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd., in a deal
that values the fourth-largest mobile company in India at
US$18.8 ...
Nokia Unveils 3 New Phones at 3GSM, Including First Navigation Product
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/22640?11228
BARCELONA, Spain -- Mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. unveiled three
new phones Monday, promising that its latest arrivals would let
users take advantage of the Internet to accomplish more in their
daily lives. The Espoo-based company, the world's biggest
mobile phone producer, reiterated its commitment to not just
holding onto to ...
Spain's Telefonica Says it is in Talks with Pirelli on Olimpia Stake
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/22636?11228
MADRID, Spain -- Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica said Monday it
is in talks with Pirelli C.S to buy part of its controlling stake
in Telecom Italia SpA. Telefonica, in a filing to the Spanish
stock market regulator, said it had been offered the opportunity
to buy a minority stake in Olimpia SpA, the holding company ...
Apple's iPhone Looms Over Wireless Conference Amid New Deals
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/22634?11228
BARCELONA, Spain -- The only Apple at the 3GSM World Congress is
affixed to the front door of a health-food snack stand in one of the
main conference halls. But Apple Inc. is looming over the event
-- one of the wireless industry's largest -- as companies like
Microsoft Corp., Nokia Corp. and Omnifone offer an array of
media ...
Using Wi-Fi 'BreadCrumbs' To Find Your Way
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/22631?11228
A partnership between Pa.-based Rajant Corporation and LDV
Corporation in Wisconsin is scattering BreadCrumbs, a mobile
system that combines portable wireless network capabilities with
mobile command and other specialty vehicles to help ensure the
communications continuity in and around mobile hubs. BreadCrumbs
are small, ...
Flash in the Hand
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/22627?11228
Adobe Systems Inc. said today that its upcoming version of Flash
for mobile devices, Flash Lite 3.0, will include support for
mobile video. The addition of video capabilities to Flash Lite
will open up powerful new applications and entertainment forms on
mid- to high-end phones, according to Anup Murarka, director of
technical ...
Adtran Scores at AT&T
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/22623?11228
Adtran Inc. has scored big with AT&T Inc., reportedly winning
bids for Ethernet over copper and IP DSLAMs. Both wins were
looking 'likely' according to a Feb. 7 note from Nikos
Theodosopoulos, an analyst with UBS AG . An industry source
requesting anonymity has confirmed that Adtran did take both
deals. The ...
Your feedback on our e-letter is always welcome. Send email to:
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Copyright (C) 2007 PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:29:10 -0600 (CST)
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Vodafone Submits Winning Bid for Hutchison
USTelecom dailyLead
February 12, 2007
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/gglYfDtusXlVgQCibuddfUxc
TODAY'S HEADLINES
NEWS OF THE DAY
* Vodafone submits winning bid for Hutchison Essar
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* AT&T, Verizon win California contracts
* McGrath tabs Dahldorf for MTV, BET affiliate division
* Google's YouTube to serve up classic TV Shows
* Companies show Internet users how to collect content
* Microsoft officially launches Windows Mobile 6
* Media companies allege Google benefited from film piracy
* Cartoon Network GM resigns after Boston campaign scare
* The 2008 candidates on media
HOT TOPICS
* Verizon outlines FTTH plans
* Google warns video strains the Net
* More TV available on PCs
* Telecoms, cable operators eye quadruple play
* Internet service electrifies Embarq profit
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
* Residential VoIP poised for growth
* Mobile world points to content for growth
* Opinion: Marketers must cross digital gap to stay relevant
* Yahoo! offers mobile-phone ads in 18 countries
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Subject: Bogus Credit Card Charges From VOIP Carrier
Reply-To: jhaynes@alumni.uark.edu
Organization: University of Arkansas Alumni
From: haynes@alumni.uark.edu (Jim Haynes)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:04:36 GMT
About six months ago I got a couple of bogus credit card charges from
Parlino, which seems to be some kind of VOIP carrier. This month I
got two charges, same day, same amount, from Skype. I've never done
business with either company. Is anybody else getting charges like
this? Any clue as to why this is happening?
jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:52:02 -0500
From: Chris Farrar <cfarrar1307@rogers.com>
Subject: Re: 1010-WINS Subway-Payphone Poll
Carl Moore wrote:
> Web site (1010 AM radio) has "Do you use payphones in subway stations?"
> Choices:
> Yes, sometimes it's a necessity.
> No, I use my cell phone all the time.
> They have payphones in subway stations?
Toronto does, they have pay phones at the entrance, on the mezzanine,
and on the platforms themselves.
Chris
------------------------------
From: Henry Cabot Henhouse III <sooper_chicken@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: 1010-WINS Subway-Payphone Poll
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:09:11 -0800
and #4: What's a "Payphone"?
Carl Moore <cmoore@arl.army.mil> wrote in message
news:telecom26.43.12@telecom-digest.org:
> Web site (1010 AM radio) has "Do you use payphones in subway stations?"
> Choices:
> Yes, sometimes it's a necessity.
> No, I use my cell phone all the time.
> They have payphones in subway stations?
------------------------------
From: harold@hallikainen.com <harold@hallikainen.com>
Subject: Re: Use Skype WITHOUT Instaling Software?
Date: 11 Feb 2007 07:26:39 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
On Feb 10, 9:37 am, m...@privacy.net wrote:
> Gene S. Berkowitz <first.l...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> In article <telecom26.3...@telecom-digest.org>, m...@privacy.net says:
>>> Anyway to use Skype on a computer say at a library where you can NOT
>>> install the software?
Not Skype, but https://www.gizmocall.com/ allows you to make SIP calls
without installing anything.
Harold
------------------------------
From: Sam Spade <sam@coldmail.com>
Subject: Re: A Call to Let Your Phone Loose
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:23:30 -0800
Organization: Cox
I think folks are mixing apples and oranges.
Wireless carriers provide a radio interface to the public switched
network (PSN).
With wireline service, the consumer has direct access to the public
switched network.
Then, there is VOIP, which is a far better interface to the PSN than
wireless.
Wireless has the convenience afforded by it mobile radio feature.
Nonetheless, if people try to equate wireless to being directly
connected to the PSN, they are mistaken.
The RF spectrum, comparatively speaking, is a limited resource unlike
the PSN. I can't imagine opening the RF side of the wireless
carrier's network like Carterfone (correctly) opened the ability to
use customer provided premise equipment access to the PSN.
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:44:59 +1100
From: Colin <colins@swiftdsl.com.au>
Subject: Re: What About Areas Where Alphabet is Not Like Ours?
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Once again, the 8-bit characters did
> not render correctly in this message. PAT]
The characters display perfectly well on my imac. Check your settings, Pat.
- Colin
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The problem is, when I work on this
Digest I use a terminal emulator (puTTY) to connect with
massis.lcs.mit.edu. It is a 7-bit thing. PAT]
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From: Danny Burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
Subject: Re: Bell System History Book
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:51:22 UTC
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
[ misc snippage, small amount left for context ]
>> The Bell System History book that Lisa referred to is: A History of
>> Science & Engineering in the Bell System: Communications Sciences,
>> 1925-1980. The ISBN is 0-932764-06-1. It is available
>> from http://www.alibris.com(and numerous others) starting at
>> $32.28. I have a copy. Google the ISBN for other sources.
> Note there are a number of volumes in this series. You may be
> referring to a later volume.
> The ISBN on my copy "... Eng & Sci Switching Technology 1925-1975" is
> 0-932764-02-9, Lib Cong is 82-072517 and copyright is 1982.
There are, as mentioned, numerous volumes in the series.
Back in the late 1970s I met the father of a coworker of mine who was
helping to compile them. He stated that it was much easier to do
Volume One -- which covered the first years. The problem he ran into
when writing about the (then) more current time periods was, as he
explained, there were more people still alive, and their memories of
the events were contradictory.
Oh, and he just couldn't figure out how to politely archive those
differing viewpoints when both (or more..) people were now vice
presidents ...
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
------------------------------
Subject: Re: Telephone Area Codes and Prefixes
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:45:10 -0800
From: Linc Madison <lincmad@suespammers.org>
Organization: Linc Mad dot com
In article <telecom26.44.1@telecom-digest.org>, <Wesrock@aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:10:15 -0600, Neal McLain
> <nmclain@annsgarden.com> writes:
>> Joe Tibiletti <joetib@cox.net> wrote:
>>> I have testified before the Public Utility Commission of Texas --
>>> one of the last states to have this jurisdiction placed in one
>>> organization under state control.
>> What do you mean by "one organization"?
>> If you're referring to an organization that regulates all (or
>> almost all) utilities, Texas isn't the only state. Every state has
>> some sort of utility regulatory agency (although they go by variety
>> of names: http://tinyurl.com/2qx65y ). Indeed, Texas is an oddball
>> in this respect: the TPUC regulates all utilities except natural
>> gas; the Texas Railroad Commission regulates natural gas; and the
>> Texas DOT regulates railroads.
> Joe is correct on his assertion that Texas was one of the last, if
> not the last, state to have a single regulatory body for telephone
> service (and some other public utilities).
> Until the 1960s, telephone regulation in Texas fell under city
> jurisdictioin, and there had to be a separate rate case, and separate
> negotiations, with each city.
Aha! I think the misunderstanding stems from the ambiguity in the
phrase "one of the last states to ..." It can mean either
(A) Everyone else did it first, and finally Texas did last, or
(B) Everyone else has stopped doing it, and Texas is the last
remaining.
I was parsing it the second way, which didn't make sense, since most of
the states have a single state regulatory agency for telephony.
Linc Madison * San Francisco, California * Telecom at Linc Mad d0t c0m
URL: < http://www.lincmad.com > * North American Area Codes & Splits
Read my political blog, "The Third Path" <http://LincMad.blogspot.com>
US, California, and Washington State laws apply to LINCMAD.COM e-mail.
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From: Sam Spade <sam@coldmail.com>
Subject: Re: Telephone Area Codes and Prefixes
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:37:30 -0800
Organization: Cox
Joe Tibiletti wrote:
> As to archives and comments of telephone number configurations, the prefix
> Zenith was used in the 1950's for non dial telephones in Pacific Palisades
> area of LA. Chicago had in the same period a 2L and 6N in some sub-urban
> area numbers in the same period. Not all possible combinations were used in
> all area codes, while several private NXX -- such as KRypton was used in
> Houston, Texas, for the Humble Building, and LT (WITH NO MEANING WAS USED
> UNTIL MODERN TIMES IN NYC.)
Zenith was used throughout the greater Los Angeles area for many
years. It may have been used in other parts of the state.
When it was in use, I lived 20 miles east of Los Angeles in
independent telephone company area and ZEnith was widely used to reach
business in Los Angeles and such.
------------------------------
From: Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com>
Subject: Re: Telephone Area Codes and Prefixes
Reply-To: nmclain@annsgarden.com
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:48:14 -0500
Joe Tibiletti <joetib@cox.net> wrote:
> I have testified before the Public Utility Commission of
> Texas -- one of the last states to have this jurisdiction
> placed in one organization under state control.
I wrote:
> What do you mean by "one organization"?
> If you're referring to an organization that regulates all
> (or almost all) utilities, Texas isn't the only state ...
Wes Leatherock <Wesrock@aol.com> wrote:
> Joe is correct on his assertion that Texas was one of the last,
> if not the last, state to have a single regulatory body for
> telephone service (and some other public utilities).
> Until the 1960s, telephone regulation in Texas fell under city
> jurisdictioin, and there had to be a separate rate case, and
> separate negotiations, with each city.
Then I misread the original statement. To me, it implied that Texas
was one of the last states to retain state control, while other states
had relinquished state control. Perhaps the original statement should
have read:
> I have testified before the Public Utility Commission of
> Texas -- one of the last states to establish state
> regulation of landline telephone service by placing
> it under the state utility-regulatory organization.
Given my background in cable television, I well understand the
problems of dealing with "a separate rate case, and separate
negotiations, with each city." I've sat through endless negotiations
over some of the weirdest issues.
The City of Monona, Wisconsin once *prohibited* the sale of
converters, while the City of Madison *required* it. When the two
cable companies merged, both franchise agreements continued in force.
Until Monona changed its ordinance, the company could sell a converter
to a Madison resident, but not to a Monona resident. It could sell a
converter to *anybody* except a Monona resident -- even (to use the
favorite hypothetical) Snoopy's brother Spike.
The City of West Bend, Wisconsin once tried to prohibit per-channel
pricing for HBO; they wanted it included "free" with basic service.
(Yet today, we have John McCain arguing that all cable channels should
be priced "a-la-carte").
All in the name of "consumer protection" of course...
Neal McLain
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From: icester <no@nospam.com>
Subject: Stereo 3D Photography Capture Stereoscopic Still and Motion Images
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:19:04 +0100
Organization: Onet.pl
http://www.tyrell-innovations-usa.com/shack3d/productinfo/jpsBrown/jpsBrownInfo.htm
http://tyrell-innovations-usa.com/shack3d/
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