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TELECOM Digest Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:40:00 EST Volume 26 : Issue 46
Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
Innocent Teacher Convicted in Computer Porn Case (John Christoffersen)
Microsoft Warns of Six 'Very Critical' Security Flaws (Reuters News Wire)
Veterans Admin Notifying 1.8 Million Veterans of New Theft (Jay Reeves)
Yahoo Mail Offers Instant Messaging Inside E-Mail (Eric Auchard, Reuters)
Pay Phone 1+ Coin Long Distance (hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com)
CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update (communicationsdirect_daily)
Fixed, Mobile Worlds Converge (USTelecom dailyLead)
Which CLEC Handles Exchanges (Peter)
Geostationary Banana Over Texas (Neal McLain)
Re: Bell System History Book (hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com)
Re: A Call to Let Your Phone Loose (hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com)
Re: Use Skype WITHOUT Instaling Software? (Henry)
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:00:02 -0600
From: John Christoffersen, AP Writer <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Innocent Teacher Convicted in Computer Porn Case
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN, Associated Press Writer
Until recently, Julie Amero says, she lived the quiet life of a
small-town substitute teacher, with little knowledge of computers and
even less about porn.
Now she is in the middle of a criminal case that hinges on the
intricacies of both, and it could put her behind bars for up to 40 years.
She was convicted last month of exposing seventh-grade students to
pornography on her classroom computer. She contended the images were
inadvertently thrust onto the screen by pornographers' unseen spyware
and adware programs.
Police dispute that. But her argument has made her a cause celebre
among some technology experts, who say what happened to her could and
does happen to others.
"I'm scared," the 40-year-old Amero said. "I'm just beside myself over
something I didn't do."
It all began in October 2004. Amero was assigned to a class at Kelly
Middle School in Norwich, a city of around 37,000 people about 40
miles east of Hartford.
Amero says that before her class started, a teacher allowed her to
e-mail her husband. She says she used the computer and went to the
bathroom, returning to find the permanent teacher gone and two
students viewing a Web site on hair styles.
Amero says she chased the students away and started class. But later,
she says, pornographic images started popping up on the computer
screen by themselves. She says she tried to click the images off, but
they kept returning, and she was under strict orders not to shut the
computer off.
"I did everything I possibly could to keep them from seeing anything,"
she says.
Prosecutor David Smith contended at Amero's three-day trial that she
actually clicked on graphic Web sites.
Several students testified that they saw pictures of naked men and
women, including at least one image a couple having oral sex.
Computer consultant Herb Horner testified for the defense that the
children had gone to an innocent Web site on hair styles and were
redirected to another hairstyle site that had pornographic links. "It
can happen to anybody," Horner said.
The defense argued that the images were caused by adware and spyware
-- programs that are often secretly planted on computers by Internet
businesses to track users' browsing habits. They can generate pop-up
ads -- in some cases, pornographic ones.
"It's absolutely plausible," Ari Schwartz, deputy director of the
Center for Democracy and Technology, said of Amero's case. "It's a
huge problem."
But police would hear none of it. Many remain skeptical, including
Mark Steinmetz, who served on Amero's jury.
"So many kids noticed this going on," Steinmetz said. "It was truly
uncalled for. I would not want my child in her classroom. All she had
to do was throw a coat over it or unplug it. We figured even if there
were pop-ups, would you sit there?"
The Federal Trade Commission has been cracking down on companies
accused of spreading malicious spyware to millions of computer users
worldwide.
Amero and her supporters say the old computer lacked firewall or
antispyware protections to prevent inappropriate pop-ups.
"What is extraordinary is the prosecution admitted there was no search
made for spyware -- an incredible blunder akin to not checking for
fingerprints at a crime scene," Alex Eckelberry, president of a
Florida software company, wrote recently in the local newspaper. "When
a pop-up occurs on a computer, it will get shown as a visited Web
site, and no 'physical click' is necessary."
Smith, the prosecutor, would not say what he plans to recommend when
Amero is sentenced March 2. John Newsone, a defense attorney in
Norwich familiar with the case, said Amero might be spared prison or
face perhaps a year to 18 months.
Principal Scott Fain said the computer lacked the latest firewall
protection because a vendor's bill had gone unpaid. "I was shocked to
see what made it through," he said.
But Fain also said Amero was the only one to report such a problem:
"We've never had a problem with pop-ups before or since."
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.
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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I feel really awful about the way this
poor teacher has been persecuted -- and you know she has been -- by
the so-called 'law enforcement officers' in her town. Most of them
know zilch, zero, about computers anyway, and the very notion of some
innocent teacher somewhere having 'porn on the computer' sends them
into a feeding frenzy. You take police who know nothing, and match
them up with a private citizen who knows almost nothing, and what do
you suppose will be the end result? PAT]
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:04:26 -0600
From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Microsoft Warns of Six 'Very Critical' Security Flaws
Microsoft Corp. issued six "critical" security patches on Tuesday to
fix flaws in its software products that the company warned could allow
attackers to take control of a user's computer.
Microsoft, whose Windows operating system runs on more than 95 percent
of the world's computers, issued the patches as part of its monthly
security bulletin. There were no patches issued in the update for the
newest version of Windows, called Vista.
Microsoft made Vista available to consumers in January after five
years of development and a number of delays to improve security. The
company says the new operating system is the most secure Windows
program ever.
Microsoft defines a flaw as "critical" when the vulnerability could
allow a damaging Internet worm to replicate without the user doing
anything to the machine.
The world's biggest software maker said the critical flaws affected
versions of its Windows, Office, Works, Internet Explorer and
Microsoft Malware Protection Engine products. It rated the other holes
at its lower threat level of "important."
The company has been working to improve the security and reliability
of its software as more and more malicious software target weaknesses
in Windows and other Microsoft software.
The latest patches can be downloaded at www.microsoft.com/security.
Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited.
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:01:34 -0600
From: Jay Reeves, AP Writer <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: V.A. Notifying 1.8 Million Veterans of Latest Missing Data Files
By JAY REEVES, Associated Press Writer
The Department of Veterans Affairs began notifying 1.8 million
veterans and doctors Monday that their personal and business
information could be on a portable hard drive that has been missing
from an Alabama hospital for nearly three weeks.
The hard drive may have contained Social Security numbers and other
personal information from about 535,000 individuals and billing
information on 1.3 million doctors nationwide, the VA said. That's
more than 37 times more people than authorities initially believed
were affected.
An employee at the VA medical center in Birmingham reported the
external hard drive missing on Jan. 22. The drive was used to back up
information on the employee's office computer. It may have contained
data from research projects, the department said.
U.S. Rep. Artur Davis questioned why it took the agency so long to
begin sending out notification letters.
"I certainly understand that the VA wanted to get a handle on the
facts. But it became very apparent very early on that they had a
breach of security," said Davis, a Democrat from Birmingham.
Veterans Affairs officials said they were moving as quickly as they
could. "We are providing information as we learn it from an
investigation," said spokesman Matt Burns in Washington.
The VA first publicly revealed the equipment was missing 11 days after
it was reported, saying then that personal information on as many as
48,000 veterans may have been stolen.
The VA said Monday it doesn't have any reason to believe anyone has
misused data from the hard drive, which is also at the center of a
criminal investigation. The agency offered a year of free credit
monitoring to anyone whose information is compromised.
Davis said the department told him that the missing storage unit
included the Social Security numbers and names of about 10,000 people,
plus another 525,000 Social Security numbers. The information on
doctors includes names and Medicare billing codes, he said.
Last year, a VA executive stepped down from his job and a data analyst
was fired after the agency failed to immediately reveal the theft of a
laptop computer and disks that contained personal information on 26.5
million veterans.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:08:03 -0600
From: Eric Auchard, Reuters Reporter <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Yahoo Mail Offers Instant Messaging Inside E-Mail
By Eric Auchard
Yahoo Inc. , the world's largest consumer e-mail provider, on Monday
said it has embedded instant messaging features inside its e-mail
program, bridging a generational divide that has confused many users.
Heavy Internet users, especially younger, Web-savvy users of social
networking sites or office workers, have long toggled between e-mail
and instant messaging services.
But for more occasional users of consumer e-mail services, the allure
of instant messaging has remained far from obvious.
Consumers can now run the two programs in one Web browser. There is no
need to download Yahoo Messenger software, a complication for users
who are not technically inclined.
Each instant messaging dialogue will take place in a new conversation
window within Yahoo Mail, allowing people to chat with multiple
friends simultaneously, without leaving e-mail.
John Kremer, vice president of Yahoo Mail, said in a phone interview
embedding instant messaging makes e-mail "an even more social
experience" -- by transforming how one communicates from a
letter-writing experience into a back-and-forth chat.
"We are hopefully bridging the gap between e-mail users and IM users,"
Kremer said. "There is still a chunk of Yahoo Mail users who aren't
using IM."
Yahoo is in effect moving the mountain of its 250 million Yahoo Mail
users by eliminating the elusive technical distinctions that have
separated the two modes of communication and limited the appeal of
instant-messaging among many users.
To guard against overwhelming its network, Yahoo plans to steadily
upgrade all Yahoo Mail users in coming months.
Yahoo is not the first to blend the immediacy of instant message with
the greater depth allowed by e-mail communications: Google Inc.
incorporates its Google Talk messaging system inside its G-mail
program, while Microsoft's e-mail service alerts a user when e-mail
recipients are also on instant messaging. It then allows the user to
send messages to either e-mail or instant messaging recipients.
"By allowing users to jump between the two modes of communication, we
are laying the groundwork for other types of communications," Kremer
said, referring to features like Web phone-calling that are already
part of many IM services.
Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited.
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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: So, now in order to avoid having a mail
reading/writing session rudely disrupted on account of some users
being too damn dumb to not be able to toggle back and forth between IM
and email, those of us who dislike the constant interupptions by the
kiddies who are always breaking in to ask 'are you m or f, how old?',
our choice will be to drop Yahoo Mail totally, I guess. Actually,
that's not a bad idea anyway. One of my geneology groups there,
'Townson Family' has been dirtied up repeatedly now for several months
by idiot spammers. Which reminds me to inquire of John Levine and
Margy: I just recently went back and reviewed a decade-old book they
authored entitled "Internet for Dummies", and re-listened to (on tape)
the section on 'sending and receiving email'. How quaint! Written in
1995, they were writing about a SINGLE (or maybe two spammers) in
existence, and steps people could take to not get caught up in
spamming. John, if you were to re-write "Internet For Dummies"
today, would you re-write any of your advice from 1995? PAT]
------------------------------
From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Pay Phone 1+ Coin Long Distance
nnnDate: 12 Feb 2007 17:29:08 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
A while ago we talked about 1+ coin calls from pay phones (station
calls paid by cash). Many pay phones no longer offer them.
I was in Newark NJ Penn train station and had to make a long distance
call. The Verizon pay phones there had 25c a minute national long
distance (4 minute $1 minimum).
The question was who handed the call. I heard no announcement, so I
don't know. It was kind of hard to hear. The card on the phone said
calls were handled by Verizon or "Verizon Select". (I believe
"Verizon 'Select'" is rather pricey.)
Sorry I don't have more info. But it was a standard Verizon phone,
not a cocot.
Why this isn't offered at other NJ Transit stations I don't know.
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:07:16 EST
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Yahoo! launched its mobile advertising platform across 19
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:25:17 CST
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Fixed, Mobile World's Converge
USTelecom dailyLead
February 13, 2007
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TODAY'S HEADLINES
NEWS OF THE DAY
* Fixed, mobile worlds converge
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Virgin Media signs up HBO, Al Gore
* Nokia partners with YouTube
* Analysis: WiMAX finally "ready for the big time"
* Liberty closes deal to buy Atlanta Braves from Time Warner
* Adelphia can activate bankruptcy plan, pay creditors
* Time Warner unit adds wireless
* Report: France Telecom mulls sale of Dutch mobile unit
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
* Tellme's McCue offers view of phone, Web convergence
* Consumers coming to grips with VoIP
* Veoh touts new service as "virtual cable"
* TI chips target low, high markets
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* Verizon wants program-access extension
Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
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From: Peter <XXpmpmpmXX@mindspring.com>
Subject: Which CLEC Handles Exchange
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:14:39 -0500
How can I find out which CLEC handles two phone exchanges in the Atlantic
City, NJ area? Is there a list by area code / exchange somewhere?
609-385
609-674
Peter
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From: Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com>
Subject: Geostationary Banana Over Texas
Reply-To: nmclain@annsgarden.com
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:17:45 -0500
Geostationary Banana Over Texas
http://www.geostationarybananaovertexas.com/
Obtelecom: none. It's not even geostationary; just funny in a weird
techie sort of way. Disclosure: I have nothing to do with this
project.
Neal McLain
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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Bell System History Book
Date: 12 Feb 2007 17:43:06 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Danny Burstein wrote:
> Oh, and he just couldn't figure out how to politely archive those
> differing viewpoints when both (or more..) people were now vice
> presidents ...
MIT Press published a two-volume history of IBM's computers (also
recommended.) I suspect the second volume, which focused on IBM's
System/360 and later machines, ran into the same troubles that you
describe above. Particularly since some offerings didn't work out so
well (like "Future System").
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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: A Call to Let Your Phone Loose
Date: 12 Feb 2007 20:08:49 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Charles Babington wrote:
> Telecom's New Battleground: Carriers' Proprietary Controls
> Now, a growing number of academics
> and consumer activists say it's time to deliver a similar
> ground-breaking jolt to the cellphone industry, possibly triggering a
> new round of customer options and technical innovations to rival the
> one that produced faxes, modems and the Internet.
Let's be clear that faxes and modems existed before 1968. Few
computers before 1968 had the capability of real-time conversation the
way the Internet operates, but there certainly were computer networks.
The technology explosion occured because of the perfection of low-cost
integrated circuits and the invention of the microprocessor.
The telephone system uses lots of electronics. Cheap electronics make
telephony cheap.
The ability to own equipment was an economic change in the way
telephone service was paid for, a change in cross subsidization.
Today we consumers pay more for POTS as a result.
> Wireless carriers, which limit what customers may do with their
> phones, say the move is unnecessary and potentially harmful. But in
> articles, blogs and speeches, a number of researchers are asking why
> the companies are allowed to force consumers to buy new handsets when
> they change carriers; pay a specified carrier to transfer photos from
> a camera phone; or download ringtones or music from one provider only.
The answer is simple: It is profitable for wireless companies to
charge that way.
> "At some point, I think Americans are going to put their foot down and
> say, 'We won't tolerate this anymore,' "
I have no love for the wireless companies, but the American consumer
has been extremely tolerant of paying rather high prices for wireless
service -- because they want it and want it badly. No matter how much
Daddy screams (and trust me, they are screaming a lot), teen son and
daughter will text constantly regardless of the cost. (No different
than my day in burning up message units).
I ask people what their service cost. They don't know or don't want
to know. It's easy $100 or more. So it goes.
I do NOT expect the consumer to protest against the present situation.
> "Wireless is a competitive industry and consumers enjoy the greatest
> number of choices among services, devices, calling plans and coverage
> areas in the entire telecom industry,"
I don't agree with that. I'd call it an oligopoly, a few major
providers. It seems to me most plans are essentially the same.
> "This paper has the potential to become a huge telecommunications
> issue,"
Please forgive my cynicism, but it seems every technology article
makes that claim.
> "People now don't understand how limited they are in what
> they can do with their cellphones. This is a totally ripe issue."
There is also a limit of what people NEED to do. My word processing
could help me write the Encyclopedia Britannica if I so choose. Too
bad I used it to write short notes to the electric company.
Automobiles used to come with 400 horsepower and C.U. engines. Kind
of wasteful for a drive to the corner drugstore for cigarettes. Same
with a cell phone. At some point usage reaches a saturation point:
"Hi, I'm at the store. What do you want for dinner?" How many
special features do you need for such calls?
Let's not forget when ESS first came out there were a variety of
special features that simply didn't take off.
> "This whole issue is a giant red herring," said AT&T spokesman Mark
> Siegel. "This is a fiercely competitive industry," which has grown
> "almost entirely through the force of competition in the marketplace,
> more innovative devices and services, and continually lower prices."
Lower prices? My cell phone was free -- given to me by the carrier --
and service is $20/ month. To replace it, I'd have to now buy a new
phone and pay $40 a month for the same level of service.
------------------------------
Subject: Re: Use Skype WITHOUT Instaling Software?
From: henry999@eircom.net (Henry)
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:52:12 +0200
Organization: Saunalahti Customer
<harold@hallikainen.com> wrote:
> Not Skype, but https://www.gizmocall.com/ allows you to make SIP calls
> without installing anything.
I had never heard of this Gizmo Call so I went to their site and tried
to make a call. It wouldn't let me unless I downloaded and installed
their software -- a 'plug-in', they called it! (I declined.)
Cheers,
Henry
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