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TELECOM Digest     Wed, 11 May 2005 02:49:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 208

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Firefox Has Hassles Just Like Internet Explorer (Lisa Minter)
    Child Porn Getting _Much Worse_ on Net (Lisa Minter)
    Live Child Molestation on Net For All to Watch (Lisa Minter)
    Will 911 Difficulties Derail VoIP? (Jack Decker)
    US Signal Introduces Quality of Service Enhancement to (Jack Decker)
    Re: STP Vendors (Thor Lancelot Simon)
    Re: Actor Morgan Freeman Wins Cybersquatting Case (Fred Atkinson)
    Re: 1A2 Help Requested (Tony P.)

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From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Firefox Has Hassles Just Like Internet Explorer
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 17:32:58 -0500


Firefox Vulnerable to Malicious Code Writers

By Jennifer LeClaire
LinuxInsider

"It's a non-issue whether or not Microsoft is a larger target than
Mozilla," said Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox. "The point isn't
why your city is getting bombed instead of someone else's. It's what
do you do about your city getting bombed."

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Security firm Secunia is reporting two "extremely critical" flaws in
Mozilla's Firefox. The vulnerabilities can be exploited by malicious
people who wish to take control of victims' computers.

The Mozilla Foundation is aware of the two flaws. The organization
said there are currently no known active exploits of these
vulnerabilities, although a "proof of concept" has been
reported. Mozilla said changes to its update Web service have been
made to mitigate the risk of an exploit.

"Mozilla is aggressively working to provide a more comprehensive
solution to these potential vulnerabilities and will provide that
solution in a forthcoming security update," said Mozilla executives in
a security alert.

Unprotected, Unverified

The first problem is that "IFRAME" JavaScript URLs are not properly
protected from being executed in context of another URL in the history
list, Secunia said. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML
and script code in a user's browser session.

The second problem is input passed to the "IconURL" parameter in
"InstallTrigger.install()" is not properly verified before being used.
Secunia said this can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript
code with escalated privileges via a specially crafted JavaScript
URL. Successful exploitation requires that the site is allowed to
install software.

Bombs are Falling

Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox told LinuxInsider that there will
always be flaws in software, and arguments about why hackers target
certain browsers are ongoing all the time. The true test is how
effectively open source responds to the threats compared to its
commercial counterparts.

"It's a non-issue whether or not Microsoft is a larger target than
Mozilla," Wilcox said. "The point isn't why your city is getting
bombed instead of someone else's. It's what do you do about your city
getting bombed. During World War II, Winston Churchill could have
talked about how London was a bigger target than New York City. But
what would such an argument have meant to Londoners during blackouts?"

A Temporary Fix

Secunia also said a combination of the two vulnerabilities could be
exploited to execute arbitrary code. The firm also claims that the
exploit code is publicly available. The vulnerabilities have been
confirmed in version 1.0.3. Other versions may also be affected.

A temporary fix has been added to the sites "update.mozilla.org" and
"addons.mozilla.org." Mozilla said users can further protect
themselves by disabling JavaScript.

With the bombs falling on Firefox and the anticipation surrounding
Microsoft's Longhorn beta release this summer, some have wondered
whether the popular open-source browser could lose its momentum.

Wilcox doesn't think so. "There are plenty of people using Internet
Explorer despite security flaws," he said. "So if you use that as a
metaphor for Firefox, then the increase of the flaws may not have an
immediate impact."

Copyright 2005 ECT News Network, Inc.

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From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Kiddie Porn Problem Severe, Expert Sees it Worsening
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:08:43 -0500


Posted by Robert T DeMarco on 05/04/05

Last year 705 children in the U.S. were abducted by a mouse.  That's
how Andrew Oosterbaan, chief of child exploitation and obscenity for
the U.S. Department of Justice, described the luring of children
through the Internet for sexual meetings with adults.

Oosterbaan was the guest speaker at a one-day symposium hosted by
Microsoft at the University of Toronto.

It brought together international lecturers, police, lawyers, social
workers and psychiatrists in an effort to find better ways to protect
children from internet predators.

"The problem is becoming more severe," Oosterbaan said. "The
marketplace is diversifying."

The Internet and cheap digital camera technology have provided those
inclined to abuse children with the technology to become international
producers and distributors of child abuse images, Oosterbaan said.

KIDS AS COMMODITY

He said "children are viewed as a commodity and will be victimized as
a commodity," and he saw that first hand in Miami, where he worked
with the U.S. Attorney's office for 10 years before taking his recent
position in Washington.

SEX IN PLAYGROUNDS

Oosterbaan said school police in Miami-Dade County monitor online chat
sites and have observed adult predators asking very young children at
schools "to have sex with them in the playground areas."

And Oosterbaan said the victims are getting younger.

"Now we are seeing babies whereas before, 10 to 15 years ago, at the
outside, the youngest might have been 12," Oosterbaan said.

Later this spring a report will be put together from the presentations
and discussions at yesterday's symposium in an effort to further
evaluate options for strengthening laws in Canada to protect children.

It is estimated one in five children will view some form of child
abuse image when they log on to the internet.

Police are now using the Child Exploitation Tracking System, designed
by Microsoft Canada and Toronto Police, to tackle the growing problem
of online child exploitation.

In 2003, Toronto police estimate they seized more than two million
images and videos of child sexual abuse.

Copyright 2005 Watch Right.

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I know that you -- like myself -- 
probably looked askance at the claim in the article about the
kids who this happens to getting younger, but in the next report
today from Lisa about the Internet Slum, she reports on a woman
who fondled a little boy _on camera_ for all to watch in a Yahoo
Group.  Some who watched the spectacle included a Naperville, IL
police officer who know is assigned almost entirely to the Internet
Kiddie Porn patrol. PAT]

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From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Woman Allegedly Fondles Toddler on Camera in Chat Room
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:15:50 -0500


BY ANDY KRAVETZ AND KAREN McDONALD
Peoria, Illinois  Journal Star

PEORIA - A 21-year-old Minonk woman faces federal charges after being
arrested for allegedly showing live video on the Internet of her
fondling a naked 16-month-old boy that she was baby-sitting.

Taylor A. March of 719 Oak St. was arrested Monday evening at her
home, hours after she allegedly posted the video in a Yahoo! chatroom,
"Preteen Sex on Camera."

March had been baby-sitting six other children -- all of whom were
girls. The children ranged in age from 16 months old up to 8 years
old.  When she was arrested, only the 16-month-old child was at her
home. The other children were not present when the alleged crime
occurred, said Woodford County sheriff's Detective Terry Glaub.

The Sheriff's Department and State's Attorney's Office plan to conduct
interviews with those children to determine whether any other crimes
occurred. The State's Attorney's Office also is reviewing the case for
possible local charges, officials said.

"It wasn't long and drawn out. It's nice to get a perpetrator like
that off the streets," Woodford County Chief Deputy Darren Evans said.

March faces a single charge of "knowing use (sic) a minor to engage in
sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual
depictions of such conduct."

U.S. District Judge Joe B. McDade ordered her held in custody of the
U.S. Marshals pending a bond hearing Thursday morning.

If convicted, March faces up to 15 years in prison.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Keith said authorities are examining
March's computer.

According to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District
Court, March had logged into the chatroom and began chatting about
having sex with children.

At some point, she aimed a Web camera toward her so the others in the
room could see her.

The complaint alleges March began to change the child's diapers in
view of the camera. She then allegedly touched and masturbated the
child as the Web camera sent live video to other chatroom members, the
complaint states.

March had been caring for the boy since late last year.

She does not have any children of her own and is not related to any of
the children she baby-sat, Glaub said.

"Our concern was to expedite this case to ensure the child wasn't in
harm's way," Glaub said.

An undercover Naperville police officer captured the Internet video
and informed authorities here, the complaint states.

Copyright 2005 Peoria Journal-Star

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Do you recall an old saying from years
ago when movie/show people talked about 'sort of racy', x-rated movies
and one of their citerion was always "Will it play in Peoria?"  Well
this 'movie' not only played in Peoria but was created in Peoria. And
when someone asks why is this sort of malicious behavor allowed on the
internet, _someone_ always hastens to tell us that 'there is no
consensus on the net for what is malicious.'  And if we wish to listen
to them rattling on and on, they will tell us how this is an anarchy,
how the internet does not really exist, that it is only a collection
of sites and how we dasn't interfere with a private site and whatever
trash and scams they send out. And of course they insist that 'no one
is in charge of anything' and further ...'that is the way that
everyone wants it to be.' The hell they say!

I say this: if ICANN is going to throw their weight around and purport
to be the people in charge (which effectively they do with their
lop-sided contracts that _everyone_ has to sign, then Vint Cerf and Esther
Dyson and their gang should come back off of vacation in Argentina (or
wherever they are this week) and write up new and meaningful contracts
which everyone has to sign (ICANN has had no trouble making that
happen up to now and I am _certain_ they can phase it in; but that's
the catch, the joke is on you, me and other netters. Vint Cerf cont-
tributed more to the advancing Internet Slum than anyone else out
there. And I guess they are not going to back down, but neither am I.

So you little precious ones who get so offended when you are told what
a mess this net has gotten to be, and that many of you were and are
responsible for it, write yourself a Perl script (or use the one I put
here the other day for what's-his-name) and just begin skipping over
the Editor Notes.  PAT]

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From: Jack Decker <jack-yahoogroups@withheld_on_request]
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 22:32:57 -0400
Subject: Will 911 Difficulties Derail VoIP?


http://voxilla.com/voxstory162.html

Regulation

By CAROLYN SCHUK
for VOXILLA.COM

In recent months, 911 has quickly become a VoIP industry hot button,
and a major headache to service providers who have enjoyed a largely
regulation-free business environment absolving them of the need to
provide emergency calling services similar to those required of
landline telephone providers.

But the climate is rapidly changing and VoIP service providers are
scrambling to find solutions to the 911 dilemna. And, with the threat
of federal regulation requiring VoIP providers to quickly implement
911 service looming, some providers are saying they will be forced to
severely limit their service markets. One major operator, AT&T, says
it may have no choice but to pull the plug on current customers.

A recent allegation that an infant in Florida died after her mother
could not reach an emergency services operator through the family's
Vonage service, and lawsuits against Vonage by state attorney generals
in Connecticut, Michigan and Texas over the company's 911 limitations,
have put a lot of heat on all US-based VoIP service providers.

Adding to their new difficulties is a recent significant change in
composition of the Federal Communications Commission. When led by
former Chairman Michael Powell, the FCC maintained a hands-off
approach to IP telephony. But in March, President Bush appointed the
less VoIP-friendly Kevin Martin to replace Powell, and when the
commission next meets on May 19th, it is poised, for the first time,
to directly regulate VoIP by requiring providers in the US to offer
emergency calling services through traditional 911 systems.

The big problem for VoIP providers is that there is no easy 911
solution.

Full story at:
http://voxilla.com/voxstory162.html

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/

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From: Jack Decker <jack-yahoogroups@withheld_on_request>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 22:39:33 -0400
Subject: US Signal Introduces Quality of Service Enhancement to Prioritize


http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-10-2005/0003592291&EDATE=

US Signal Introduces Quality of Service Enhancement to Prioritize VoIP, Other IP Traffic Across its Network

http://www.ussignalcom.com

Enhanced SLA, Four Data Priority Levels Delivered By Latest Cisco Technology

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- US Signal today announced
the introduction of a new Quality of Service (QoS) product enhancement
that gives its IP/Internet managed service customers the ability to
prioritize VoIP, video and other critical data applications across the
entire US Signal IP network.

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based US Signal said QoS is available to its
Internet customers who utilize US Signal to manage connectivity.  For
customers selecting the QoS product option, US Signal will install and
manage a Cisco state-of-the-art Integrated Services Router at a
customer's location to classify and route data traffic as required by
the customer's applications.  

The US Signal QoS enhancement was developed in response to assisting
customer deployment of VoIP solutions and the resulting need to
prioritize VoIP data packets.  The Company noted that customers are
increasingly moving to optimize their internal networks to give
priority to VoIP data up to the edge of their Internet connection.
Available May 1, the QoS enhancement extends that optimization across
US Signal's core network.  The QoS offering also comes with an
enhanced Service Level Agreement (SLA) that sets high-level
performance standards, including "five 9s" of network reliability, as
well as stringent metrics for latency, packet loss and jitter.

The US Signal network, the largest in the Midwest, includes a total of
nearly 3,000 route miles of long-haul fiber connecting first-, second-
and third-tier markets in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
It also includes more than 500 miles of fiber optic metro rings around
14 high-growth cities and 75 on-off ramps, comprised of major carrier
hotel locations and incumbent telephone company central offices.  "We
are pleased to be able to bring this advanced QoS enhancement to our
growing list of IP customers utilizing or considering VoIP, as well as
those looking to leverage additional data stream-critical tools such
as video streaming and video conferencing," said US Signal's vice
president of sales and marketing, Stephen Oyer.  "Our utilization of
Cisco's 1841 router allows us to offer four distinct classes of data
performance to customers, giving them value-based QoS options today
that can also scale with the customer as they grow.  US Signal's QoS
is also backed by one of the strongest SLA's in the industry,
demonstrating our confidence in our performance."

About US Signal

US Signal (http://www.ussignalcom.com ) is a full-service fiber optic
solutions provider, offering a wide range of telecommunications
solutions to wholesale customers and channel partners.  The Company
has built and developed one of the most comprehensive fiber optic
networks in the Midwest.  As a full- service solutions provider, US
Signal offers unlimited high-speed capacity, dark fiber and
collocation services, and also works with customers to design and
build new network construction projects.

SOURCE US Signal
Web Site: http://www.ussignalcom.com 

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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Subject: Re: STP Vendors
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 00:28:30 UTC
Organization: Public Access Networks Corp.
Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com


In article <telecom24.207.9@telecom-digest.org>, John McHarry
<jmcharry@comcast.net> wrote:

> Does anyone know why the US went with STPs instead of F links? Last I

You've got the question backwards; the network architecture originated
in the US, and was adapted by the Europeans to more nearly approximate
their hop-by-hop analog interoffice signaling.

F links are, in essence, wasteful; generally they lead to a
significant surplus of signaling bandwidth at some points in the
network and periodic deficits elsewhere.  It is also somewhat easier
to engineer a heavily redundant signaling architecture -- particularly
in the tree-structured EO and tandem voice network US carriers
inherited from Bell -- if you physically separate packet switching for
the signaling links from the actual presence of voice trunk groups
between switches.

Finally, it's noteworthy that other network protocol suites (e.g. IP,
XNS, SNA) generally distinguish between the routing and end-host
functions; certainly most stacks can do both, but a really high
performance router, for most protocols, doesn't make a great end host,
and vice versa.  Why expect it to be different for SS7?  You don't
_need_ all the baggage of a voice switch along for the ride if your
intent is to just forward signal units, and dispensing with it means
reduced cost and size, which means you can have more message routers
and more links on those routers, which means you can have a more
redundant network.


Thor Lancelot Simon	                             tls@rek.tjls.com

"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is
 to be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem."  - Noam Chomsky

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From: Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com>
Subject: Re: Actor Morgan Freeman Wins Cybersquatting Case
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:56:44 -0400


> GENEVA (Reuters) - American actor Morgan Freeman, winner of this
> year's best supporting actor Oscar for his performance in "Million
> Dollar Baby," won a cybersquatting case in a ruling by an
> international arbitrator Tuesday.

> Freeman was found to have common law rights to the contested Internet
> domain name (morganfreeman.com), which had been registered by a Saint
> Kitts and Nevis-based web site operator.

If this is true, then why isn't the domain registered to anyone right
now?  I would think it should be registered to Morgan Freeman at this
point.

I imagine that this would set a precedent to protect actors (and other
artists) name(s) on the Internet, rather than each having to file a
case each time.

He is a pretty good actor, by the way.  I really enjoyed his
peformance in 'The Shawshank Redemption'.


Fred

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From: Tony P. <kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net>
Subject: Re: 1A2 Help Requested
Organization: ATCC
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 22:05:19 -0400


In article <telecom24.206.6@telecom-digest.org>, 
kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net says:

> In article <telecom24.204.9@telecom-digest.org>, Tim@Backhome.org 
> says:

>> TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to the original query:

>>> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I can tell this much; no one,but no
>>> one tampers with or tries to rewire the inside of a 1A2 phone. The
>>> wiring is just too complex. All the rewiring is done in the box on
>>> the wall where there is room to move your arms and fingers, _not_
>>> in the phone itself.   PAT]

>> No doubt.  No one ever changed the wiring within a 1A2 or 10A2 set, with
>> the expection of installing a buzzer for intercom.  But, that wasn't
>> really rewiring; rather loosing a couple of screws to overlap
>> u-connectors.

>> And, no one in the field re-wired a 1A2/10A2 KSU, other than to
>> restrap the tie down wiring to change features, etc.

>> Ain't computers great?!

>> TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I really do not think anything much can
>> be done inside those phones without a lot of grief that cannot be done
>> better and quicker at the punchdown block on the wall. I've done
>> 'stuff' inside those phones but mainly things like remove or
>> re-arrange the ball-bearings under the push buttons so I could get two
>> or more buttons to stay down at one time. And once I converted a five-
>> line six-button phone with a hold button into a three line phone with
>> three associated hold buttons by using two of the line strips for each
>> line, so that three buttons merely put a short on each of the
>> associated three lines, and re-arranging the ball-bearings as
>> needed. This was circa 1975. It was not a fun project. That was the
>> day I vowed never to take one of those 1A2 phones apart again.  PAT]

> At least you could modify a 2565 or 565 type set. Modifying a 7406, 8410 
> or 6408 is almost completely out of the question. 

> I note the OP is a fan of modern phone system, as am I. But there is one 
> tiny little problem. 

> Our PRI between our two switches regularly goes down for anywhere from 
> 30 seconds to 5 minutes. This seems to occur most between 8:30AM and 
> 9:00AM and then again between 2:00PM and 2:30PM. Verizon claims they 
> can't figure it out. 

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: In that case, next month when it is
> time to pay the bill is tell Verizon "I can't figure out where I left
> my purse and money."  PAT]

Well, it is a state agency I work for and it would be relatively easy
to sic PUC after Verizon. I just might do that.

In article <telecom24.207.6@telecom-digest.org>, kludge@panix.com 
says:

> Tony P.  <kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net> wrote:

>> Our PRI between our two switches regularly goes down for anywhere from 
>> 30 seconds to 5 minutes. This seems to occur most between 8:30AM and 
>> 9:00AM and then again between 2:00PM and 2:30PM. Verizon claims they 
>> can't figure it out. 

> Clock slip?

That's my gut feeling on it. I've tried explaining that to Verizon but
it just falls on deaf ears.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: And their request for payment should
likewise fall on deaf ears for a few months. And when you get tired of
playing that game after a few months, _then_ sic the government on
them as you indicated above.   PAT]

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