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TELECOM Digest Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:25:00 EDT Volume 24 : Issue 156
Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
States Scramble To Protect Data/Dozens of Privacy Bills (Monty Solomon)
Reporters Get Credit for Simple ID Switch (Monty Solomon)
Illinois May Require VoIP 9-1-1 (Jack Decker)
Neustar Database (Herman Jones)
Verizon Becomes Largest MCI Shareholder (Telecom dailyLead from USTA)
Re: Wierd Telephone Problems (David)
Re: Wierd Telephone Problems (Richard Crowley)
Re: Clearing the Paper Trail to College (Lisa Hancock)
Re: Prison Cell Phone Scandal (Wesrock@aol.com)
Re: More Spam! Get Ready for Spam on Your Net Phone (Paul Vader)
Last Laugh! was Re: Sperm - Not so Mobile (T. Sean Weintz)
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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:32:30 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: States Scramble To Protect Data / Dozens of Privacy Bills
States Scramble To Protect Data
Dozens of Privacy Bills Introduced After Spate of Security Breaches
By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 9, 2005; Page E01
Legislatures in more than two dozen states are considering ways to
give consumers more control over personal information that is
collected and sold by private firms, but many of the proposals are
drawing fire from financial services companies.
Bills are on the table in 28 states responding to a series of
high-profile security breaches at information brokers, banks and
universities that so far this year have resulted in more than 1
million Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, names and
addresses falling into the hands of potential identity thieves.
In the most recent case, a medical group in San Jose announced
yesterday that records on roughly 185,000 current and former patients
may have been exposed after two of its computers were stolen.
The state activity is being closely tracked on Capitol Hill, where
several House and Senate members have introduced or are preparing
identity theft legislation.
Generally, the various state bills do not target how thieves are
obtaining data, through hacking, fraud or other means. But consumer
groups and privacy advocates, who are championing many of the
initiatives, say they would help shield consumers from the havoc and
damage that identity theft can cause.
One group of bills would allow consumers to "freeze" their credit
reports so that sensitive data could not be given out to anyone
without permission from the individual each time the data were
requested.
Identity thieves often strike by obtaining a piece of private
information, such as a Social Security number, and then using it to
establish credit and make purchases.
Credit-freeze bills are moving through legislatures in about 20
states. In some cases, any consumer could order a freeze at any time.
In other states, only people whose data have been breached would have
that option.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38498-2005Apr8.html
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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:43:51 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Reporters Get Credit For Simple ID Switch
Sneaky ID thieves always one step ahead in schemes
By Tom Mashberg/ Exclusive
First of three parts
Peter Kochansky knew he hadn't bought a Porsche, but there it
was among his bills - a luxury car loan in his name for $40,000.
That wasn't the half of it. As Kochansky, a lawyer from
Somerville, soon learned, a notorious identity thief was racing
around the country, running up credit charges and emptying bank
accounts, all in Kochansky's name.
The thief, Shawn Pelley, now in federal prison, always seemed a
step ahead. When Kochansky canceled his credit cards, Pelley stole
$7,000 from a Fleet account Kochansky shared with his wife, even
though Pelley had no PIN number.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=77741
Reporters get credit for simple ID switch
By Thomas Caywood and Tom Mashberg
Second in a three-part series on identity fraud.
Identity theft ain't rocket science. Trust us.
To test the retail credit industry's claims of tough new ID
fraud protections, two Herald reporters swapped Social Security
numbers and set out to steal each other's identities.
Despite our lack of criminal expertise, within hours we had a
$10,000 credit line at one store and a $1,300 account at another.
The experiment began at Dana Ross Studios in the South End,
where $60 buys a convincing-looking 'Massachusetts identification
card' - complete with digital signature, holograms and a faux
magnetic strip along the back.
No questions asked. Cash only. We walked out with two fake IDs
in 10 minutes. The cards showed one reporter's face and the other's
name, Social Security number, address and age.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=77875
Tricks of the trade from prolific prowler
By Tom Mashberg
Sunday, April 10, 2005 - Updated: 11:31 AM EST
Shawn Pelley didn't like who he was, so he became almost anyone else.
Starting in 2001, the crafty Cape Cod native used ID theft to
take individuals, banks and retailers for $550,000. Loot and phony
identities in hand, he led a flamboyant lifestyle and rubbed elbows
with hotshots from L.A. to South Beach.
Pelley, 29, finally was run to ground by U.S. marshals and is serving
a 60-month sentence at a federal prison in Pennsylvania. But the
skinny, 6-foot high school dropout ran up immense debts in the names
of dozens of victims, many of them Massachusetts lawyers.
US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan called Pelley "the most
active identity theft perpetrator the major crimes unit has
prosecuted."
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=77743
Scams turn victims' lives upside down
By Tom Mashberg
Monday, April 11, 2005 - Updated: 09:27 AM EST
State Rep. Paul C. Casey is a man of the people -- the people
victimized by identity theft.
In 2003, he was one of a half-dozen Paul Caseys across New England
defrauded by con artists who used his common name to pilfer gift cards
and heaps of merchandise from area retailers.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=77874
"You don't understand what it's like"
By Thomas Caywood
Monday, April 11, 2005 - Updated: 03:49 AM EST
Paul K. Casey of Foxboro is the kind of guy who keeps only one or two
credit cards and faithfully pays them off each month.
So he knew something was fishy when he got a letter from Sears about
the credit application he supposedly filled out at the chain's outlet
in Kingston.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=77873
Victim: Unsnarling fraud 'a second full-time job'
By Tom Mashberg
Sunday, April 10, 2005
Karen Leonard was an Army sergeant in two war zones, then braved the
bar exam, but none of it matches having an identity thief run up huge
bills in her name.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=77745
Good Samaritan father, teen daughter targeted
By Tom Mashberg
Sunday, April 10, 2005 - Updated: 11:26 AM EST
Not only did crooks steal Bill Loesch's identity, they did the same
to his 12-year-old daughter.
Five years ago, Loesch, a protestant minister and Codman Square
health activist, rented apartments on the first and third floors of
his Dorchester three-decker to tenants he thought he could trust.
Instead, he said, one of them "would get home before me, steal
my mail, get credit cards in my name by using my Social Security
number and then go on big buying sprees. And this was a woman!"
When the bills came in, the thief would intercept them and rip
them up. Years went by before Loesch, 63, realized he'd been ripped
off.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=77744
Tough to recover once you're hacked
By Tom Mashberg
Sunday, April 10, 2005 - Updated: 11:25 AM EST
The pet sitter did it.
It took a while, but Sandra Pochapin of Southboro figured out
how she became an ID fraud victim: The pet sitter went through her
mail, pocketed a credit card and hit Lord & Taylor's for $1,200.
"I didn't even know the card was going to arrive," Pochapin, a
48-year-old marketing director, said. "They sent me a card I didn't
want for an account that I never used."
Since 2002, Pochapin has been trying to undo the damage caused by one
person with just one of her credit cards. The thief, who fled the
state and was never arrested, opened false accounts from Boston to
Brooklyn -- at Macy's, J.C. Penney and Cingular Wireless, and places
Pochapin can only imagine.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=77742
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: In the early to middle 1960's, as VISA
franchises were first getting started in Chicago, they were known as
'Bank Americard'; named after Bank of America which was then a one or
two branch bank in San Francisco. First National Bank of Chicago were
the idiots responsible for VISA (Bank Americard) taking such a
dreadful hit from fraud in the first few years. How much is dreadful?
Oh, about five or six million dollars in fraud the first year of the
program. First National Bank of Chicago -- never known for having very
smart employees (see my essay elsewhere on how I had to successfully
sue them in Small Claims Court to get back refunds of checks they had
no business cashing in the first place) -- was issuing credit cards
willy-nilly to every name on their list of accounts; just sending out
the plastics without regard to the context of the 'account holder'
shown on their books. They sent out credit cards (in envelopes marked
'here is your new credit card enclosed', mind you) to such account
depositors as tiny babies, estates of deceased persons, escrow
accounts of the courts, etc. If there was a deposit account on the
books of First National Bank of Chicago, the computer printed up and
mailed out a BankAmericard credit card to it. You talk about dumb! And
announcing your dumbness and stupidity right on the envelope yet!
And recall please, those were the days when they used to print a
weekly bulletin 'hot sheet' which they distributed to all the stores,
and merchants were expected to check the 'hot sheet' before accepting
the card. And there were 'floor limits' which the sales authorizers
used to use in those times before sophisticated computers where sales
'under the floor limit' were automatically approved. How long do you
think it took the general public -- at least the larcenous members of
it -- to figure out the system, and how grocery stores and gasoline
stations had one floor limit (almost infinite) while electronics
stores, jewelers and liquor stores had another limit (almost none at
all). Everyone, but everyone, it seems, tried to rip off First National
Bank's BankAmericard program. It took several years of that kind of
fraud before FNB-Chicago woke up and decided to (a) try and do at
least a modicum of investigation before issuing cards to 'customers'
and (b) to at least be a bit discreet in mailing out the damn things.
Even the dishonest employees at the Post Office got in on the act. By
simply holding an envelope in their fingers and running their thumb
back and forth once or twice (and noting the return address being a
suspicious PO Box the bank finally started using to disguise the
contents of the mailing) postal workers made off with so many credit
cards it would have shocked any hardened con-man. Millions and
millions of dollars in fraud in the first few years of widespread
VISA/MC use by the public. Maybe its worse now-days, with a more
sophisticated public and a somewhat more sophisticated banking
system. Is it? Anyone know? PAT]
------------------------------
From: Jack Decker <jack-yahoogroups@withheld on request>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:03:45 -0400
Subject: Illinois May Require VoIP 9-1-1
http://www.tmcnet.com/tmcnet/articles/2005/illinois-voip-911-governor-rod-blagojevich.htm
By David Sims, TMCnet CRM Alert Columnist
The Chicago Sun-Times
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-guv11.html> is reporting
that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is proposing legislation to get
Internet-based phone providers to give customers the same kind of
access to 911 operators as those who use regular telephone lines.
In the back of everyone's mind is the incident this past February 3rd
in Houston, where 17-year-old Joyce John called 911 using Internet
phone provider Vonage to report that her parents had been shot by home
intruders. She got a recording telling her that access to 911 service
was unavailable. Help took more than 10 minutes to arrive. Both
parents survived.
It was later established that the Johns had multiple opportunities and
reminders from Vonage to activate Vonage's 9-1-1 service but had
not done so. In a blatantly emotional vote-troll, the Texas attorney
general sued Vonage after the incident, probably since you don't
win many votes suing registered voters who haven't followed
Vonage's directions on how to activate their 9-1-1.
The FCC warns on its Web site that it "may be difficult" for Internet
phone customers to "seamlessly connect" with 911 dispatch
centers. According to Blagojevich's office, that's because traditional
phone companies have not given Internet phone providers access to more
than 3,200 emergency call centers nationwide.
Blagojevich spokesman Gerardo Cardenas said the governor said the
companies need to figure out how to solve that problem. "We're not
getting into that debate," he said. "What matters here is when you
need police or an ambulance, it has to get there immediately."
[Jack Decker Comment: Texas is a SBC state. Illinois is a SBC state
(and we all know what they say about Illinois politics). Anyone
notice a pattern here?]
Full story at:
http://www.tmcnet.com/tmcnet/articles/2005/illinois-voip-911-governor-rod-blagojevich.htm
How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home:
http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html
If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MI-Telecom/
------------------------------
From: blank777@web.de (Herman Jones)
Subject: Neustar Database
Date: 11 Apr 2005 10:13:40 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Hi folks,
I wonder if it would be able to get access to the Neustar databases.
Like, list all "Herman Jones" in "California".
Herman Jones
tel 323.852.1083
8383 WilshireBlvd Suite 355
BeverlyHills, CA 90211
Do some companies have interfaces to the databases? Somebody with
experiences on that?
Thanks,
Herman
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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:43:21 EDT
From: Telecom dailyLead from USTA <usta@dailylead.com>
Subject: Verizon Becomes Largest MCI Shareholder
Telecom dailyLead from USTA
April 11, 2005
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=20725&l=2017006
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* Verizon becomes largest MCI shareholder
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USTA SPOTLIGHT
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
* VOIPSA chief warns of dire VoIP security threats
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Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
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Reply-To: David <someone@some-where.com>
From: David <someone@some-where.com>
Subject: Re: Wierd Telephone Problems
Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:45:30 GMT
Al Dykes <adykes@panix.com> wrote in message
news:telecom24.155.6@telecom-digest.org:
> In article <telecom24.154.2@telecom-digest.org>, Gladiator
> <glad1ator@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello: I have this problem with my telephone at home. For incoming
>> calls, sometimes, it would ring once then disconnect the caller. I
>> thought it was my phone, but I bought a new one, and it was the same
>> thing.
I had this problem once due to a stand-alone caller ID unit. I
capacitor in the unit would intermittently break down from the ringing
voltage.
David
------------------------------
From: Richard Crowley <richard.7.crowley@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Wierd Telephone Problems
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:39:46 -0700
Organization: Intel Corporation
Gladiator wrote:
> Hello: I have this problem with my telephone at home. For incoming
> calls, sometimes, it would ring once then disconnect the caller. I
> thought it was my phone, but I bought a new one, and it was the same
> thing.
> I called my telephone company, and the technician came and said that
> this could be due to wiring inside the building. So, the telephone
> company thinks it's not their responsibility.
> The strangest thing is, outgoing calls seem to be fine. I can dial
> outside w/o problems.
> Anyone seen this before?
Get a dog? :-)
I was pleasantly surprised that this old telco "shaggy-dog story" was
available online: http://www.egreeley.com/messages/1872.html
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I've got no problems with 'pissing and
moaning' but I happen to think that story -- and I have seen it many
times -- is a terrible way to treat any animal. I cannot recommend the
story, even if it is just an 'urban legend' as I suspect.
Some of you have asked what happened with Buffy, the female cattle dog
I had here. She learned how to jump over the fence :( and she ran off;
has not been seen since. She is a *big* dog and could put her front
paws on my four foot high wire fence around my yard. But she is also
very muscular (like many big dogs) and learned to use her front legs
to pull herself over the fence when she jumped in the air. I have sort
of mixed emotions about it. I did miss her a little -- this is the dog
which knocked me down on the sidewalk one day, skinning up my face and
chipping my tooth and causing me to bleed -- but I know she did not
mean it; now that she has been gone for more than a week I am almost
certain the Independence Animal Shelter got her, and I am not going to
take her back. She was just too much for me to try and deal with. PAT]
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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Clearing the Paper Trail to College
Date: 11 Apr 2005 07:01:31 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Monty Solomon wrote:
> By Alison O'Leary Murray, Globe Correspondent | April 10, 2005
> When Natick resident Sean True looks at the college admissions
> process, he sees a problem -- too many envelopes being mailed to too
> many colleges. Too much paper.
Actually, many years ago two key aspects were computerized:
1) Financial aid: Students filled out a standard computer-scan
questionnaire which was distributed accordingly.
2) SAT scores -- presumably now sent electronically to colleges.
Different school districts have greatly varying ways of preparing
transcripts of high school life. Some are not computerized at all,
some are highly sophisticated. The information includes more than
just courses and grades, it also includes evaluations, extra
curricular, discipline, attendance, etc. I think schools vary on what
info they send and colleges vary on what info they want.
If I were a student today, I'd be quite nervous about hackers or
others getting into the data.
Also, I don't want to encourage large colleges from using computers to
do basic application screening. I realize that in effect is done now
manually due to high volume of applications -- a clerk does a quick
scan looking for basic minimums, but having a computer do it is
worse -- it removes important variables.
Grades are very subjective and vary tremendously from school to
school. A yuppie ambitious suburban community will have a very
intense school district where an "A" really is an "A". In contrast, a
weak area might give an "A" just for showing up every day and not
causing any trouble. When I got to college a lot of my fellow
freshmen were overwhelmed by the coursework. They got straight A's in
high school easily but college was much harder. A "C" student from an
intense high school would be more prepared than an "A" student from a
mediorce high school.
The point is that grades in themselves are not enough -- the kind of
school is important as well, as well as other factors. Computer
scanning is not good at that subjective sort of thing.
------------------------------
From: Wesrock@aol.com
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:05:29 EDT
Subject: Re: Prison Cell Phone Scandal
In a message dated 11 Apr 2005 02:34:37 -0000,John Levine
<johnl@iecc.com> writes:
> Beyond the issue of competing with normal users in cell bands, public
> safety radios do some specialized tricks like having a button to put a
> bunch of firemen* something that acts like a party line or conference
> call.
> R's,
> John
> * - many of whom are female
The politically correct tern now is "firefighter."
Some publications now have software that automatically makes the
change, which leads to such absurdities as "firefighter" substituted
for "fireman" even when the person in question is a steam locomotive
fireman, a fireman on an antique steam power vehicle such as a
tractor, or a marine steam enginer. Their job is to maintain and
foment the fire, rather than to fight it.
Wes Leatherock
wesrock@aol.com
wleathus@yahoo.com
------------------------------
From: pv+usenet@pobox.com (Paul Vader)
Subject: Re: More Spam! Get Ready for Spam on Your Net Phone
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:54:45 -0000
Organization: Inline Software Creations
Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com> writes:
> Jeffrey Citron, chairman and chief executive of Vonage, took questions
> after his keynote speech and was asked how he plans to address
> security issues with VoIP. Clearly, he wasn't going to share his
> "The great thing about security is that you don't have to tell
> everyone what you're doing," he responded. "But we understand that
> SPIT is an issue."
Security through obscurity is no security at all. *
* PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
like corkscrews.
------------------------------
From: T. Sean Weintz <strap@hanh-ct.org>
Subject: Last Laugh! was Re: Sperm - Not so Mobile
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:35:20 -0400
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
John McHarry wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:44:57 -0400, T.Sean wrote:
>> Yes, of course. But what many folks don't realize is they use
>> specially bred mice that are VERY susceptible to tumors for these
>> types of experiments.
>> Which means there is a very GOOD chance that the same exposure will
>> have no effect whatsoever on a normal healthy human.
> Oh good, a volunteer!
Not at all.
Cell phones may not cause cancer or low sperm mobility, but it IS a
well known fact that the goverment DOES use cell phones as relay
points for their mind control beams. NO WAY you are gonna get me near
a cell phone without my tin foil hat on. <GRIN>
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