TELECOM Digest     Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:42:00 EST    Volume 26 : Issue 48

Inside This Issue:                            Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    New Style Credit Cards Can Broadcast Your Personal Information (E Larkin)
    Webcams Broadcast Israeli Dig (Reuters News Wire)
    Travel Web Sites Clamp Down on Bogus 'Reviews' (Chris Reiter, Reuters)
    Which Toll Free Provider Should I Use? (Nehmo)  
    New Short Video: "Is Your Cell Phone Bugged?" (Lauren Weinstein)
    Re: Telephone Area Codes and Prefixes (hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com)
    Re: Telephone Area Codes and Prefixes (Neal McLain)
    Re: Innocent Teacher Convicted in Computer Porn Case (M)

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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:51:11 -0600
From: Erik Larkin, PC World <pcworld@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: New Style Credit Cards Can Broadcast Your Personal Information


by Erik Larkin, PC World

You may be carrying a new type of credit card that can transmit your
personal information to anyone who gets close to you with a scanner.

The new cards -- millions of which have been issued over the past year
 -- use RFID, or Radio Frequency Identification, technology. RFID
allows scanners to use radio signals at varying distances to read
information stored on a computer chip.

According to a study from academic and business researchers at the
University of Massachusetts, RSA, and Innealta, many of the cards will
transmit your name, credit card number, and expiration date (but not
the three-digit security code) in the clear to anyone nearby with a
scanner.  One of the researchers, Kevin Fu of the University of
Massachusetts, provided an electronic copy of the report's
just-finished final version to PC World. The draft version is
available online.

Millions of Cards in Use

RFID is widely used to track shipments and store inventory--and now
it's in credit cards, allowing customers to swipe the cards past
readers in McDonald's restaurants, CVS pharmacies, and elsewhere,
making for quick and easy transactions. Visa says more than 6 million
"contactless" cards exist worldwide, and their number is growing
rapidly.

In an e-mail, Fu wrote that "in our collection of approximately 20
cards, the vast majority revealed CC name, CC number, and expiration"
when the researchers scanned with a commercial RFID reader that they
modified to work with the credit cards. According to the FAQ on the
study, the sample cards "spanned all three major U.S. payment
associations and several major issuing banks."

According to a Visa spokesperson, the company's contactless card network 
uses an encrypted security code to verify a transaction. That should 
protect against certain types of fraud -- but again, it doesn't protect 
against someone pulling the name and number.

However, second-generation Visa Contactless cards no longer send the
name, says Brian Tripplett, the company's senior vice president of
emerging product development. The new cards still send their numbers,
but those would be difficult to use without the card holder's
name. With the first generation of cards, Visa suggested that banks
not issue cards that transmit the name; with new cards, that's
required.

Tripplett also says that Visa's technology has a shorter read range
and communicates differently than does the standard RFID used for
inventory management, for example. Mastercard didn't respond in time
for this story.

Is Your Card RFID-Equipped?

How do you tell if your card has one of these chips? Some cards have
visible microchips, according to the study's FAQ, but others don't.
Tripplett says that Visa Contactless cards have a symbol: four
vertical wave-like bands on the front or the back.

But to know for sure, and to know whether you have a first- or
second-generation Visa card, you need to call your bank and ask. You
should be able to request a card without the technology, or at least
one that doesn't transmit your name.

Also, you can block RFID signals with a "Faraday cage," which uses a
metal mesh or casing. A quick online search turned up some wallets and
wallet inserts that incorporate the cages.

Other Risk Reductions

Even for the first-generation cards that do send the name, some other
mitigating factors exist. First, while the researchers used a
commercially available RFID reader, they made modifications to it that
take "technical skills and know-how," Fu wrote. Also, the reader must
be close: The card specs say only a couple of inches, but Fu says some
research papers put the max range at about 6 inches.

And most important, phishing, keyloggers, and other kinds of online ID
theft are far too successful right now for criminals to put in the
effort required for this type of fraud. So the risk probably isn't
significant -- for now.

Major risk or not, however, there's no way I'd want my credit card to
transmit its information without any encryption. Adding yet another
opportunity for ID theft where there doesn't need to be any, whether
the threat is large or small, simply makes no sense.

Copyright 2007 PC World Communications, Inc.

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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:01:53 -0600
From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Webcams Broadcast Israeli Dig


Israel has installed Internet cameras near an archaeological
excavation close to a Jerusalem shrine that had sparked Muslim
protests, in a bid to show the work does not harm the holy site,
officials said on Thursday.

Streaming video of several angles of the dig site were seen on
Israel's Antiquities Authority's Web site http://www.antiquities.org.il

All are invited to view the work anytime.

"The Antiquities Authority invites the public in the country and in
the world to monitor the excavations up close and to see what is being
done on the ground at any given time," the group's spokeswoman, Osnat
Goaz, said in a statement.

The dig is meant to clear the way for the construction of a walkway to
the complex known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as
Temple Mount. Officials say the archaeological work is likely to take
at least eight months to complete.

The excavations near the compound began last week and touched off
protests and stone-throwing by Palestinians and raised Muslim fears
al-Aqsa mosque at the compound would be harmed.

Israel denies any harm would come to the mosque or the Dome of the
Rock that stand on the site of two destroyed biblical Jewish Temples.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said during a visit to Ankara on
Thursday that he had invited Turkish authorities to visit the
dig. Goaz said the excavations are taking place Sunday to Thursday,
from 0430 to 1230 GMT. Tune in during those hours, or anytime desired.

Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited.

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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:47:46 -0600
From: Chris Reiter, Reuters <reuters@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Travel Web Sites Clamp Down on Bogus 'Reviews'


By Chris Reiter

Travel Web sites, such as Priceline.com Inc. and Expedia Inc., are
clamping down on fake online consumer reviews of hotels, which could
undermine a growth area.

Trustworthy sources of information are sometimes difficult to find on
the Internet, and user reviews have become a way for many sites to
offer apparently unbiased opinions -- at a low cost to the Web
companies.

But the authenticity of the opinions has not always been reliable.

"We have certainly seen instances with other properties where insiders
have put reviews up for a particular hotel or a particular thing and
it's not a legitimate review," said Jeff Boyd, http://Priceline.com 's
Chief Executive.

"It's somebody who's in effect been paid to make the property look
good." Boyd said, speaking at the Reuters Hotels and Casinos 2007
Summit in Los Angeles this week, "and sometimes, to make the property
look bad."

There's a lot at stake. About $69 billion were spent last year at
online travel sites, up 13 percent from a year ago, according to
research firm comScore. Expedia's TripAdvisor, the largest hotel
review site with more than 5 million reviews, says that 97 percent of
reviewers return to the site to plan their next trip.

http://Priceline.com says it addresses the problem of bogus reviews by only
allowing users to post opinions if its records show that the person
has stayed at the hotel.

Every review on TripAdvisor is read by a person trained in fraud
detection. If a fake review does slip through, it is taken down
immediately, and hotels seeking to "game the system" are penalized,
said TripAdvisor spokesman Brooke Ferencsik.

Rob Solomon, CEO of SideStep, a travel search engine start-up, said at 
the Reuters Summit that user-generated content -- mainly reviews -- is 
one of the company's fastest growing areas. The reviews are key to 
increasing traffic for the advertising-funded site.

He estimates that 1 percent to 2 percent of the reviews on SideStep and 
other travel sites are bogus. But he says the industry and users are 
aware of the problem and addressing it.

"We do a little bit of quality control and then the community starts 
policing itself. The cream of the crop starts rising to the top," 
Solomon said.

"It will never go away completely, but I think you can minimize it," he 
said. "Consumers are pretty smart. They can smell a rat. I don't see 
(fake reviews) as an imminent threat."

Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. 

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From: Nehmo <nehmo54@hotmail.com>
Subject: Which Toll-Free Number Provider Should I Use?
Date: 16 Feb 2007 00:05:03 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


I want to get a toll-free number that terminates at my cell phone
number. A package with a 100 minutes/month would be acceptable. Who
should I use?

I was going to use http://www.tollfreemax.com/ , but I noticed a
complaint form a customer who said there was a cancellation penalty of
$25 hidden in the Terms of Service. It's true. Tollfreemax tires to
hide the provision. Since that's unscrupulous, I decided not to use
them.

Then there's Accessline (which has several resellers). In their terms
and conditions http://www.accessline.com/legal/terms.asp I can't
figure out what the minimum commitment or term is. So I feel queasy
about them.

I settled with Ringcentral. But I couldn't signup for the service. I
have two credit cards, both of which appeared to be rejected by
http://www.ringcentral.com/ . But actually it was because the banks
rejected the transaction according to customer service at Ringcentral.
CS said, assuming I had money in the accounts, the banks could have
tagged Ringcentral as "High Risk" and so didn't approve the
transaction.  CS told me I should call my banks and have them take
Ringcentral off their blocked list.

Are all the Toll-free number providers crooks or something? Is there
one that someone can recommend?

   (||)   Nehmo   (||)

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Subject: New Short Video: "Is Your Cell Phone Bugged?" 
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:09:50 -0800
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>


Greetings.  I've been getting lots of continuing interest and
queries in the wake of my blog item from late last year:  
"How To Tell If Your Cell Phone Is Bugged" 
( http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000202.html ).

In an effort to explain this issue in a more demonstrative 
and somewhat less technical manner, I'm pleased to announce a 
short free video (under six minutes): "Is Your Cell Phone Bugged?"

While I'll admit that the production values are much closer to 
those of Ed Wood than of Cecil B. DeMille, I hope you'll still 
find this video to be interesting, or at least amusing.

"Is Your Cell Phone Bugged?" Video Access Pages:

YouTube (Streaming): 
http://www.vortex.com/cellbug-vid-youtube

Google Video (Streaming & Download): 
http://www.vortex.com/cellbug-vid-google

Thanks.

--Lauren--

Lauren Weinstein
lauren@vortex.com or lauren@pfir.org
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR
- People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, IOIC
- International Open Internet Coalition - http://www.ioic.net
Founder, CIFIP
 - California Initiative For Internet Privacy - http://www.cifip.org
Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Telephone Area Codes and Prefixes
Date: 15 Feb 2007 13:10:57 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


On Feb 14, 12:09 am, Shalom Septimus <drugg...@pobox.c0m> wrote:

> My dad had a (212) LT1-xxxx number for years, that went to an
> answering service. I asked him what that stood for, and he said it
> didn't stand for anything in particular, which offended my 5-year-old
> sense of propriety (at the time, our home phone was (212) EVergreen
> 5-xxxx, so I was familiar with the concept).

As a result of some area codes running out of usable exchanges, the
phone company experimented with "meaningless" exchange codes.  That
is, there would be two letters that had no English word basis.  This
was done in New York State as a trial for some years.  It did not work
out and they concluded to go to ANC instead.

Some areas didn't mind ANC, but some objected very much so.  As others
mentioned, there were organized protest groups against it.  In some
communities, the exchange name was a badge of social status.

Although I like exchange names because of the sense of dignity and
ease of memory they offer, I can understand the phone company's issues
as well.  Some names, like HYatt or HYacinth, are easily mispelled (HI
instead of HY).  Some names are pretty obscure, like SWinburne (an
ancient poet).  When 0 and 1 became common as the third digit of an
exchange, confusion was more likely (PI1, HO0).  Overseas calls become
a real problem.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Over the years I have had these Chicago
numbers: RAVenswood-8-7425 (which also spells 'Patrick') and HYDe Park
3-3714 and SHEldrake-0001. All, a long, long time ago. PAT]

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From: Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com>
Subject: Re: Telephone Area Codes and Prefixes
Reply-To: nmclain@annsgarden.com
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:23:37 -0500


Joe Tibiletti <joetib@cox.net> wrote:

> ... Chicago had in the same period a 2L and 6N in some sub-urban
> area numbers in the same period.

PAT retorted:

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Neither 'suburban Chicago' nor
> anywhere else in (what is now) 312/630/773/815/847 or otherwise
> northern Illinois _ever_ had a total of eight digits for dialing; it
> was always (since 1923 or so) SEVEN digits, although the seven
> digits were parsed differently through the late 1940s ...

That's what I thought.  

I don't believe that eight-digit numbers have ever been used anywhere
in the NANP.  W. H. Nunn, writing in the September 1952 PSTJ, [*]
notes the wide variety in numbering plans that then existed in the
United States, and explains how they were all to become NPA+7D in the
form NPA+NNX+XXXX.  He cites several examples of the "different types
of numbering plans" that existed in 1952, before conversion:

Philadelphia, PA (2L+5D)
Example: LOcust 4-5678

Los Angeles, CA (2L+4D and 2L+5D)
Example: PArkway 2345 and REpublic 2-3456

Indianapolis, IN (2D+4L)
Example: MArket 6789

El Paso, TX (2L+5D and 5D)
Example: PRospect 2-3456 and 5-5678

San Diego, CA  (1L+5D and 1L+4D)
Example: Franklin 9-2345 Franklin 6789

Des Moines, IA (5D and 6D)
Example: 4-1234 and 62-2345

Binghamton, NY (5D)
Example: 2-5678

Manchester, CT (4D and 5D)
Example: 5678 and 2-2345

Winchester, VA (4D)
Example: 3456

Ayer, MA (3D and 4D)
Example: 629 and 2345

Jamesport, NY (3D)
Example: 325

Nunn doesn't mention New York or Chicago.  I assume that by 1952,
these cities had already been converted from 3L+4D to 2L+5D.

Joe Tibiletti: can you provide a citation for your statement
eight-digit numbers existed in Chicago?

[*] W. H. Nunn.  "Nationwide Numbering Plan."  Bell System Technical
Journal, September 1952, 851-59.  Manuscript received May 15, 1952.

Neal McLain


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I will have to stand corrected on this.
Chicago was entirely manual until about 1938 or so. In those times,
numbers might have been _less_ than seven digits (and letters), but
they were never _more_ than seven. In other words, 'Sheldrake - 1'
would have been legitimate (telco did not 'force' filler or leading
zeros until automation started). When automation finally started, in
1938, Illinois Bell started printing all numbers (dialable or still
manual) in the telephone directory as names plus FOUR digits, using
leading zeros as required to complete the string. At that point in
time, SHEldrake -1 became SHEldrake 0001, etc. Telco said the
rationale for this was to 'begin educating the public' on the new
automated system being installed. Telco also stressed at that time
that '17' was 'one-seven' rather than 'seventeen', and that as another
example, '0700' was 'oh seven hundred' and not 'zero seven zero zero'
nor 'zero seven hundred' but you would think to be consistent if
'seventeen' was verbotin language that likewise 'seven hundred' would
be verbotin. But not as telco thought about those things, and we all
know that in every instance, Ma Bell always knew best. Zeros in the
first (thousands) position were always 'oh' and whenever they appeared
in the other three positions when non-repetitive they were also 'oh'.
When they repeated in the two final positions, they were to be
pronounced 'hundred'. If the second, third and fourth positions were
all zeros then they were pronounced 'thousand'. Although Chicago and
a few select suburbs began converting to dial in 1938, in early 1942
Western Electric Company was nationalized by the federal government
'for the duration' and that brought a screaming halt to any further
dial conversion. So from 1938 until 1946 Chicago was about 20-50
percent dial and the same amount manual. PAT]

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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:32:02 PST
From: M <M@notchur.biz>
Subject: Re: Innocent Teacher Convicted in Computer Porn Case


Please do not publish my email address.

There are tons of news articles on this subject and I have yet to find
one critical of Amero.  She now has a blog at
http://julieamer.blogspot.com/.  They are asking for financial help,
and I would encourage everyone to make a small donation as I myself
did.  They are just normal people who are getting absolutely screwed
by the system.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: All these folks who prattle and chatter
about the wonderful way things work in the good old USA and how
wonderful our system of justice and jurisprudence works out need to
recall a few simple facts: Most of us cannot even begin to afford the
services of an attorney in a criminal matter, let alone the high price
of making bail while your case is being adjudicated. The police, with
their limitless amounts of time and resources can, and often do screw
whomever they take a dislike to. And the old joke about 'if you cannot
afford an attorney, one will be given to you' is such a crock. For
these alleged 'pornographers' and/or 'child molestors' and/or 'keepers
of child pornography' things are especially tough: God forbid the
victim has a computer in his/her home. Police want to tear it apart,
and you _never_ get it back in the condition you submitted it. Police
approach these instruments like superstitious witch doctors; first
thing they want to do is find out 'where does he keep all his
pornography?' No matter whether the victim does or does not have any
of these things; police make those decisions, and the prosecutor, who
_should be_ an unbiased officer of the court is told by police where
things should go. Gay men are especially fair game for most police
officers in this respect. I myself never could understand how a gay
person could want to become a police officer; for me it would turn
my stomach too much; nor to the converse, how a police officer would
ever openly admit to being gay; yet there are some in both directions
these days. They are, IMO, two mutually different categories of human
beings. So Julie Amero is not guilty at all?  So what else is old
news?  By all means, go to her blog http://julieamer.blogspot.com/
and give her a few dollars if you can afford to do so. When she gets
out of prison after forty years or so -- if she makes it that long --
she will need the money. PAT]      

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