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TELECOM Digest Thu, 2 Jun 2005 17:37:00 EDT Volume 24 : Issue 245
Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
McAfee Buys WiFi Firm Wireless Security Corp. (Lisa Minter)
GSM and Roaming (Eric)
Forwarding SMS Messages (Chris Holst)
Can You Disable Text Messaging? (John Mayson)
Sony Offers Video Calling (Telecom dailyLead from USTA)
Re: Packet8 DTMF Tones Sound "Clipped" (DevilsPGD)
Known Spam Sites (Steven Lichter)
Apparent Junk Mail (Carl Moore)
Re: Neat New Satellite Map Program (Charles Cryderman)
Re: Schools Prohibit Personal Email Sites (Lisa Hancock)
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are naive enough to believe that we will ever stamp it out, but because
we do not want the kind of world that results when no one stands
against crime. Geoffrey Welsh
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From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Mcafee Buys WiFi Firm Wireless Security Corp.
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 14:25:53 -0500
By Spencer Swartz
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - McAfee Inc., the world's second-biggest
maker of security software that protects personal computers from
Internet viruses, on Thursday said it has bought software maker
Wireless Security Corp. and continues to look for other acquisitions.
McAfee did not disclose how much it paid for Wireless Security, which
gives McAfee its first foothold in securing popular short-range WiFi
networks used by consumers and business travelers in airports and
coffee shops.
McAfee bought all the outstanding stock, technologies and assets of
Palo Alto, California-based Wireless Security Corp., with which McAfee
already has a partnership. McAfee's stock traded down about 1 percent
in New York.
George Samenuk, McAfee chairman and chief executive officer, told analysts
and investors in New York that McAfee, which has about $1 billion in cash,
continues to search for acquisitions of both publicly traded and privately
held companies.
"We're looking at both .... We met for several hours last night (to talk
about) what other directions we should go down," he said.
Samenuk said consolidation in the security software industry would
continue and said there was still "tremendous opportunity" from
customers looking to buy products to secure their networks from
Internet menaces like spyware, which can secretly monitor a computer
user's activity.
SECURITY CONSOLIDATION AND WIFI
The U.S. House of Representatives in late May voted to establish new
penalties for purveyors of spyware.
Samenuk also said it is "staggering" how many calls McAfee gets from
privately held firms about wanting to sell themselves.
Investors in these companies are coming to realize they should sell
the firms now due to unpromising future growth prospects, Samenuk
said.
Many analysts have expected consolidation as companies opt to buy
security products from fewer vendors to lower costs and the complexity
of integrating the products they buy.
All of Wireless Security's software developers will join McAfee, said
McAfee executive vice president Bill Kerrigan. He declined in an
interview to say how many employees Wireless Security has.
Kerrigan said he did not expect McAfee, based in Santa Clara,
California, to make other acquisitions in the WiFi security area in
2005.
WiFi connections have grown increasingly popular in recent years,
especially among business travelers who use the networks to connect to
the Internet and into their company's internal networks.
But such connections have also become more prone to hackers trying to
intercept personal information, like passwords and credit card data,
over the wireless signals.
Products from the acquisition will include a downloadable offering for
consumers and a version for small businesses that will be part of a
bigger suite of several computer security products McAfee offers,
Kerrigan said.
Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.
NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the
daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at
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articles daily.
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From: Eric <to.eric.smith@gmail.com>
Subject: GSM and Roaming
Date: 1 Jun 2005 23:33:03 -0700
Hi,
Anyone know of commercial or other solution to implement call hunting
between sim cards / lines?
Only solution I know of is HP's opencall framework.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Eric Smith
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Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:34:39 EDT
Subject: Forwarding SMS Messages
From: Chris Holst <cdh@aquick.org>
In considering wiring a new office, some interesting technical ideas
have been bounced around, and I'd like to get some feedback about
feasibility of implementing them. Input from the wise folk who read
the Digest would be most appreciated.
Most users will be mobile, i.e. not at the end of physical extensions
in the office much of the time. -- This means we'd like a system we
can program forwarding of numbers into, such that folks can point
their desk phone at their cell phone. This is possbile in PBXs like
Asterisk, right?
We'd like a rationally planned numbering scheme for departments and
specialties and such. Again, internal PBX programming, right,
associating the DID lines with extensions?
We'd like to have our people have only one number on their card ... so
is it possible to program a PBX to process and forward SMS data sent
on to the associated cell phone? This appears to the sticking point.
SMS is useful, and we'd not like to miss out on it to implement this
system if we don't have to.
Chris
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Chris, just a non-telecom,
non-technical question if I may: Are you, or your family related in
some way to the classical music composer, Gustav Holst? For me, just
a curiosity. PAT]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 10:52:01 -0500
From: John Mayson <jmayson@nyx.net>
Subject: Can You Disable Text Messaging?
Organization: Nyx Net, The Spirit of the Night
I might have a definitive answer by the time this runs, but I'll
ask anyway.
My wife and I switched to T-Mobile this week. With our particular
plan all incoming text messages are charged at 5 cents per message. I
receive about a $1 worth of spam per day. I called T-Mobile, but they
won't even acknowledge my account exists because I'm not the "primary
account holder" as my wife actually bought the phones. She's been
sort of busy and hasn't called them herself.
Does anyone have any experience with T-Mobile? Can they disable text
messaging? I don't want to have to pay $20 to $30 per month for
incoming spam.
We left our previous company because they didn't give a rat's behind
about our on-going service problems until it came time to renew the
contract, then we were their best friends. I hope T-Mobile isn't the
same.
John Mayson <jmayson@nyx.net>
Austin, Texas, USA
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 14:01:52 EDT
From: Telecom dailyLead from USTA <usta@dailylead.com>
Subject: Sony Offers Video Calling
Telecom dailyLead from USTA
June 2, 2005
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=22048&l=2017006
NEWS OF THE DAY
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* Nokia unveils new inexpensive handsets
* Citrix buys NetScaler
* Qualcomm, EA strike video game pact
* Analysis: SBC's low-price broadband a boon for Yahoo!
* Comcast CEO promises big things for digital phone service
* All-wireless movement slower than expected
* AOL launches DSL
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
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* Nacchio wants fraud charges dropped
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Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
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From: DevilsPGD <spamsucks@crazyhat.net>
Subject: Re: Packet8 DTMF Tones Sound "Clipped"
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 01:34:43 -0600
Organization: Disorganized
In message <telecom24.241.16@telecom-digest.org> PrinceGunter
<slippymississippi@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I regularly forward my Vonage service to my cell phone, and from there
>> my cell phone transfers the call invoice voicemail. Callers can enter
>> their phone numbers to get a call back, this function works fine.
>> I also check my own voicemail through the forwarding loop sometimes
>> (If I'm traveling in Texas I can dial my Texas virtual number as a
>> local call, rather then calling long distance to my cellphone's number
>> in Calgary.)
> Both of these instances have the DTMF travelling in the opposite
> direction than the situation I'm dealing with.
> I'm placing an inbound call to a Vonage number that's been forwarded,
> and expecting DTMF back from the recipient. As the caller, however, I
> can generate DTMF to the recipient just fine.
Ahh okay, that makes sense. I haven't actually tested that scenario,
although if I get bored I could ...
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From: Steven Lichter <shlichter@diespammers.com>
Reply-To: Die@spammers.com
Organization: I Kill Spammers, Inc. (c) 2005 A Rot in Hell Co.
Subject: Known Spam Sites
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 13:54:31 GMT
Over the last month I have noticed that over 60% of the Spam e-mail I
have received has come from e-mail addresses and sites that are
registered to Godaddy. Has anything been done or being done to shut
this company down? All of what is being sent out appears to be fraud
related, plus they must be ripping these newbies selling them these
new targeted lists. The big one now is the $400,000 loan that they
called you on last night and the Universal Studios, Orlando, where
they want your credit card number.
The only good spammer is a dead one!! Have you hunted one down today?
(c) 2005 I Kill Spammers, Inc. A Rot in Hell Co.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:37:01 EDT
From: Carl Moore <cmoore@ARL.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Apparent Junk Mail
Notice the original message has telecom23.354.10@telecom-digest.org
in the To header, so perhaps someone at your end could check to see
who would have gotten the original message.
Also enclosed in the mailing you are reading are my remarks to the
Secret Service. The usual case in "419" mail:
1. it's OK to see how I would respond to this (because there are no
contents other than "frank" here, all that's possible here is an
email to the address in the From header)
2. NO response by me to this (not even to correct grammar or to ask
that I be removed from the sender's list)(and it's understood
that we don't touch whatever list the following was sent to)
----- Forwarded message # 1:
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005
From: Carl Moore <cmoore@arl.army.mil>
To: 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov
cc: uce@ftc.gov, spam@uce.gov
Subject: no financial loss -- for your database
Sorry, but this is all I got. I do receive the Telecom digest,
thus apparently explaining the To header. The other system names
look familiar because they appear in other mail I have forwarded
to you in the "419" category.
----- Forwarded message # 1:
Received: from arl.mil by VIP.ARL.ARMY.MIL id aa389032; 2 Jun 2005 08:50 EDT
Received: by admii.arl.army.mil (Postfix)
id C957673CB5; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 08:50:20 -0400 (EDT)
Delivered-To: cmoore@arl.army.mil
Received: from mail02.infosat.net (mailout06.infosat.net [66.18.69.6])
by admii.arl.army.mil (Postfix) with ESMTP id E52DA73CB5
for <cmoore@arl.army.mil>; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 08:50:08 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from [196.38.110.16] (HELO mail01.infosat.net)
by mail02.infosat.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8)
with ESMTP id 259487930; Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:50:06 +0200
Received: from [80.88.128.12] (account frankonline@mighty.co.za)
by mail01.infosat.net (CommuniGate Pro WebUser 4.1.8)
with HTTP id 774438285; Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:50:06 +0200
From: "frank govery" <frankonline@mighty.co.za>
Subject: URGENT
To: telecom23.354.10@telecom-digest.org
X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro WebUser Interface v.4.1.8
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:50:06 +0200
Message-ID: <web-774438285@mail01.infosat.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
X-ARL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the helpdesk for more information
X-ARL-MailScanner: Found to be clean
X-ARL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=3.366, required 5,
RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 1.22, RCVD_IN_SBL 2.11,
RCVD_IN_SORBS_HTTP 0.04)
X-ARL-MailScanner-SpamScore: sss
X-ARL-MailScanner-From: frankonline@mighty.co.za
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
frank
----- End of forwarded messages
----- End of forwarded messages
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well Carl we know that the apparent
'email address' of 'telecom23.354.10@telecom-digest.org' is in fact
not an email address at all, but a Usenet message ID/serial number,
and volume 23, issue 354, message 10 was from July 23 a year ago.
It was dealing with 'blogs and bloggers and blogging' and had
absolutely nothing to do with the spam _you_ got in email from
'Frank'. Since true email addresses and Usenet newsgroup serial or
identification numbers are constucted exactly the same way and
easily mistaken, one for the other by an inexperienced spammer, so
all we really know is that the Mighty Frank from somewher in South
Africa probably bought a useless mailing list from someone. If anyone
else wishes to parse through the remainder of the header and make
something else of it, be my guest, and I imagine I speak for Carl
as well. Does anyone actually give a rat's behind about what happens
any longer on Usenet? PAT]
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Subject: Re: Neat New Satellite Map Program
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 15:03:56 -0400
From: Charles Cryderman <Charles.Cryderman@globalcrossing.com>
In TD V24 #243 Brad quoted our esteem moderator:
>> It consists of streaming realtime video captured by satellites as they
>> fly around everywhere."
Then stated:
> Not exactly, Pat. The images are not live (try looking at night or on a
> cloudy day and you will get the same image). You are getting them from
> their server, so it is not limited by what can be stored on a CD or DVD.
> You can look on the Keyhole.com site for the date and resolution of the
> images. Most are within the last 2 years.
I don't think the last two years are even correct on how recent these
images are. The view of my home in White Lake Township, Michigan is
much older then that and is the exact same view I got when Map Quest
provided free satellite photos. In it I see my 1964 Dodge Dart parked
in front of the house when it has been parked on the side for years
now (no extra cash or time to get it ready for the road again). Also
my son's high school is still under construction, yet it has been open
for three years.
Chip Cryderman
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: A very good point! I have to wonder
why they are charging for views like that? And the PRO version of the
software is even more expensive. PAT]
------------------------------
From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com (Lisa Hancock)
Subject: Re: Schools Prohibit Personal E-mail Sites
Date: 2 Jun 2005 13:41:46 -0700
Monty Solomon wrote:
> By Tracy Jan, Globe Staff
> Boston Public School officials, who recently banned cellphone use
> during the school day, are angering students with a new prohibition:
> no checking or sending e-mail from Yahoo, Hotmail, or other personal
> Web-based accounts from school.
I don't see why this is a big deal. It's the school's computers and
they should be able to regulate them any way they choose. It's no
different from the workplace where an employer dictates what can and
cannot be done on his computers.
FWIW, back in junior high, we were forbidden to use even the payphones
without a note from a parents. I thought that was a bit tough and
never understood that rule. In HS they didn't care except when we
snuck a call on a school telephone.
Except in very special situations, kids shouldn't be using their
cellphones during school hours in the school building.
Thomas A. Horsley wrote:
> Gee. Shouldn't they also ban all other forms of communication? I'd
> think any media could be used for the same offensive stuff and trigger
> the same lawsuits. Perhaps they should just seal up all the students
> in barrels until they are old enough to graduate :-).
Sorry, but that's not how it works today. Like it or not, the schools
(as does businesses) have a very legitimate concern. If their
facilities are used utilized adversely, they could be held liable. As
such, they must protect themselves.
There was a newspaper article reporting that schools are a lot quicker
to suspend kids (a serious punishment) than in years past. It's not
that kids behave worse, but rather schools are afraid of a lawsuit
from an aggrieved parent if they fail to aggressively punish a
wrong-doer. Also, some schools are merely returning to discipline
standards they held in the past, but relaxed in more recent years.
In some ways, I think schools acting to prevent harassment/ bullying
between students is not such a bad idea.
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