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TELECOM Digest     Sat, 13 Aug 2005 04:15:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 365

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Florida Man Guilty of Stealing 1.5 Billion Data Files (Reuters News)
    Pirated Copies of Mac OS Available Now (Tom Krazit, IDG News Service)
    Appeals Court Ruling Revives Case of Intercepted E-Mail (Monty Solomon)
    Internet Phone Carriers Still Seeking 911 Replies (Monty Solomon)
    Verizon Web Site Flaw Allowed Record Access (Monty Solomon)
    TiVo Tests Internet Download Service (Monty Solomon)
    How Long Can a Telephone Extension Cord Be? (wylbur37)
    Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0 (Bill Matern)
    Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0 (Flatus Ohlfahrt)
    Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0 (mc)
    Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0 (Allen McIntosh)
    Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0 (Colin)

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From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Florida Man Guilty of Stealing 1.5 Billion Data Files
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:46:28 -0500


A Florida man who ran a bulk e-mail company was convicted on Friday of
stealing more than 1.5 billion data files from Acxiom Corp. in what
federal officials said was one of the largest recorded cases of data
theft.

Scott Levine, 46, of Boca Raton, Florida, will be sentenced January 6
after a U.S. district court jury found him guilty on 120 counts of
theft by computer, two counts of fraud and one count of obstruction of
justice.

Each theft count carries a possible sentence of five years and a
$250,000 fine while each fraud counts could result in 10 years in
prison and a $250,000 fine. The obstruction count could bring a
20-year sentence and a $250,000 fine.

Jurors acquitted Levine of money-laundering and conspiracy charges.

Prosecutors said Levine, during a 16-month period that ended in August
2003, exploited a security weakness in Acxiom's system to steal the
files, which he hoped to use to inflate the value of Snipermail.com
Inc., his bulk email company, which is now out of business.

Levine was primarily stealing street and e-mail addresses and credit
card and checking account numbers. Millions of consumers had their
data stolen but U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins said there apparently had
been no cases of identity theft or related crimes.

When Levine was indicted in July 2004, Assistant U.S. Attorney General
Christopher Wray said the case "may be the largest intrusion of
personal data ever."

Acxiom, one of the world's largest creators of consumer databases, has
said it has tightened security for its file transfer protocol server.

Several former Snipermail employees testified against Levine under
plea agreements. Levine's attorneys had argued he was the victim of an
employee conspiracy to frame him for the data theft.

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. 

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From: Tom Krazit IDG News Service <idg@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Pirated Version of Mac OS for PCs Available
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:46:34 -0500


Tom Krazit, IDG News Service

Instructions on how to install Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating
system on any PC with a chip from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices were
posted to the Internet this week, and they could be found on several
Web sites today.

Apple announced in June that Mac OS X will run on Intel's x86
architecture chips starting in 2006. The Cupertino, California,
company has been working on a version of Mac OS X for Intel's chips
since 2000, even though Macs currently use PowerPC chips from IBM and
Freescale Semiconductor. Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs told
developers that a switch was necessary to take advantage of the
low-power chips Intel is expected to release in the future.

At the time, Apple executives insisted that Mac OS X would only run on
x86 chips used in Apple-developed hardware. Intel PCs distributed to
Apple developers with the x86 version of Mac OS X used a security chip
to prevent developers from copying Mac OS to other Intel PCs,
according to several reports this week from Mac enthusiast sites.

Hacker Bypass

However, several enterprising hackers have figured out ways to bypass
the security chip and run the developer's version of MacOS for x86 on
any x86-based PC, according to a posting on the Web page of The OSx86
Project. Posters on that site, as well as other sites within the Mac
community, claim to have used the instructions to run Mac OS X on
their Intel or AMD PCs, with some posting pictures and videos of x86
PCs booting Mac OS X.

The process requires a copy of Mac OS X version 4 (Tiger), VMware's
virtualization software, the PearPC emulator that can run operating
systems written for PowerPC on any architecture, Apple's Darwin 8.0.1
software, an x86 processor that supports SSE2 (Streaming SIMD
Extensions 2), and two files created by an independent developer that
can be downloaded using the BitTorrent file-sharing system.

As of Friday afternoon, detailed instructions were available in a wiki
created by The OSx86 Project. Another site had posted instructions for
installing Mac OS X without using VMware's software.

Not Legal

Users must be willing to download pirated software, as the two files
have been modified to get around the security technology in the
developer PCs, according to The OSx86 Project Web site. The site
insists that The OSx86 Project does not support the use of illegal
software but wishes to offer a forum for users interested in running
Mac OS on x86 chips.

Mac OS X users praise its user-friendly design and the scarcity of
viruses developed for the operating system. Aside from a brief
flirtation with licensing the operating system in the mid-1990s, Apple
has maintained control over its operating system by restricting it to
hardware made and developed by the company.

However, there is a sizable group of PC users that like to build their
own systems using hardware from Intel and AMD, and many users in that
group have itched for a way to run Mac OS on these low-cost machines.

Dell Chairman Michael Dell also expressed interest in selling a Mac OS
X Dell PC after Jobs announced the switch to Intel's chips.

An Apple spokeswoman did not immediately respond to an e-mail seeking
comment on the issue. However, Apple has said many times since the
June announcement that Mac OS X is designed to work only with Apple
hardware whether that hardware uses PowerPC chips or x86 chips.

Copyright 2005 PC World Communications, Inc.

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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:46:27 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Appeals Court Ruling Revives Case of Intercepted E-Mail


Businessman can be tried under wiretap statute

By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff

A federal appeals court in Boston said yesterday that a businessman
charged with intercepting and reading his customers' e-mails can be
tried under a federal wiretapping statute. The ruling is the latest
twist in a four-year-old case that has been closely watched by
Internet civil liberties groups around the country.

Bradford Councilman is former vice president of Interloc Inc., a rare
book dealer in Greenfield that offered a free e-mail service to
customers. In 1998, Councilman allegedly began intercepting any
e-mails sent to his customers by the Internet retailer Amazon.com.
Councilman and his colleagues allegedly read the messages to see what
Amazon was offering his customers, so that he could make attractive
counter-offers.

A grand jury indicted Councilman in 2001 for violating the federal
wiretapping law. Councilman urged dismissal of the indictment, saying
that the wiretap law did not apply because the e-mail was intercepted
while it was stored in the memory of a computer, not when it was
traveling across a network.

A federal district court agreed and threw out the indictment. The US
Justice Department, which had brought the case against Councilman,
appealed the ruling. But a three-judge panel of the US Court of
Appeals in Boston also rejected the charges. Last year, the Justice
Department persuaded all seven appeals court judges to hear the case.

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/08/12/appeals_court_ruling_revives_case_of_intercepted_e_mail/

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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:11:36 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Internet Phone Carriers Still Seeking 911 Replies


By Jeremy Pelofsky  

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of the top U.S. Internet phone providers
told U.S. regulators this week they are still trying to obtain
acknowledgments from customers that they know the limitations of
dialing 911 with their service.

Some customers of Internet phone service, known as Voice Over Internet
Protocol (VOIP), have had trouble getting help when dialing the
emergency number 911, which prompted the Federal Communications
Commission to order changes.

Unlike traditional phone service, not all Internet phones provide 911
dispatchers with the location of callers, and some calls have been
routed to administrative lines that are not always monitored.

The FCC in May ordered companies to fix those issues by late November
and, in the interim, to get acknowledgments from all customers that
they understand those service limitations. Analysts estimate there are
more than 2 million VOIP customers.

Vonage Holdings Corp., the biggest U.S. Internet phone provider, said
it has received acknowledgments from more than 90 percent of its
customers but was unable to predict whether it would achieve the 100
percent goal by an August 29 deadline.

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/08/12/internet_phone_carriers_still_seeking_911_replies/

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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:42:36 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Verizon Web Site Flaw Allowed Record Access


NEW YORK --Verizon Wireless customers who signed up for online billing
services were able to peek at some details of others' accounts due to
a Web site programming error that was caught by a customer and fixed
this week, a company spokesman said Thursday.

The flaw allowed customers who punched in another user's phone number
to see how many airtime minutes that person had used, as well as the
number of free minutes they had remaining for the month, spokesman Tom
Pica said. Snoopers could also learn what cell phone model a customer
used.

All users who registered to use the "My Account" system were affected
by the glitch, which could have been in place for as long as five
years, Pica told The Associated Press. It did not appear that anyone
had taken advantage of the error to pry into individual accounts, he
said.

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/08/12/verizon_web_site_flaw_allowed_record_access/

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Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 02:02:18 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: TiVo Tests Internet Download Service


By Greg Sandoval, AP Technology Writer  |  August 12, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO --Add TiVo Inc. to the list of companies trying to wed
the Internet to television. The digital recording company will soon
allow customers to download TV shows to their set-top boxes via the
Internet -- even before the shows air on TV.

TiVo has struck a deal with the Independent Film Channel to transmit
several of the cable channel's shows through a broadband connection as
part of a trial program. Participating customers will begin receiving
the shows next week, said TiVo spokesman Elliot Sloane.

Sloan confirmed that TiVo sent messages to its customers -- later
posted on the technology Web log Engadget.com -- offering to transmit
three IFC shows beginning Aug. 19, before they aired on the cable
channel.

Content on demand has long been a holy grail for Internet and cable
companies as they hunt for the next generation of television. No one
yet has found a way to overcome the considerable technological
hurdles, such as finding a speedy way to pump two-hour movies through
broadband, or convince Hollywood that its content won't be pirated and
that it can profit from Internet broadcasts.

Still, Internet connections are picking up speed and moving closer to
a reliable delivery method for broadcast-quality video. Should the day
come that video is downloaded at the touch of a button, some
stakeholders foresee a vast video universe of endless variety.

TiVo has offered its 3.3 million customers a form of
watch-what-they-want, when-they-want-it luxury since it launched in
1997, but the service remains restricted to broadcast schedules, and
customers must program their set-top box to record shows.

Right now, fans of the spy drama "Alias" must wait until weekly
episodes are broadcast on ABC. Conceivably, an Internet broadcaster
could strike a deal with a studio to offer customers a season's worth
of shows at once.

The question is, why would any studio with a hot show want to hand 
over its content to TiVo?

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/08/12/tivo_tests_internet_download_service/

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From: wylbur37 <wylbur37nospam@yahoo.com>
Subject: How Long Can a Telephone Extension Cord Be?
Date: 12 Aug 2005 16:35:54 -0700


Recently, at a Radio Shack store at the telephone accessories section,
I noticed that telephone extension cords were available in lengths up
to 25 feet (but I didn't notice any that were longer).  Is that
because 25 feet is the longest you can go before there's a significant
loss of signal strength?

And what about people who access the internet via 56K dial-up?  For
them, how long can the extension cord be and still have "clean"
transmission for error-free downloads?



[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I do not know what the rule is -- if
any -- regarding the length of cords, but I do not think it has to
do with any signal degradation; after all, you might be _miles_ from
the central office building, or in the case of a DSL connection, up
to several thousand feet. PAT]

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From: Bill Matern <wtm@ncomm.com>
Subject: Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:56:05 -0400
Organization: MV Communications, Inc.


PAT,

I had a similar problem before.  A good lesson was learned by my kids
about downloading stuff from web pages.  It took me days to clean the
mess up.

The procedure that worked the best for me was using as many "free"
spyware removes as possible: Spybot search and destroy and others.  I
needed three (don't remember the other two) before I got the mess
cleaned up.  I don't know if this will work for you or not, but it is
worth a try.

Good Luck,

Bill

TELECOM Digest Editor <ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu> wrote in message
news:telecom0.0.1@telecom-digest.org:

> This is an appeal to any Windows Internet Explorer person in our
> readership who can help me:

> Wednesday night/Thursday morning someone stuck me with a virus and the
> end result was my Internet Explorer browser is gone. I cannot get the
> browser to come up at all; clicking on the icon makes it sit for a few
> seconds, then the screen flashes ONCE  as though it was getting ready
> to deliver the browser, but no such luck. I have cleared out the virus
> but apparently a driver or two or a file is gone as well.

> Not only that but I cannot even get any pages which would come via
> that browser.  Now my copy of Mozilla works just fine, its only that
> Internet Explorer 6.0 wont come up (or anything that depends on it,
> such as a link in email, etc.)

> Using Mozilla  I went to a download site (supposedly 'free downloads')
> and paid for a password to download an entirely new copy of Internet
> Explorer 6.0 and Outlook Express. Downloaded it, but still nothing ...
> I am wondering if it is because my index page (I was using 'my yahoo'
> as my home or starting page) somehow got wiped out.

> The newly loaded thing produces the very same results:  click on the
> icon, it goes away for a couple seconds, comes back flashing once then
> goes away.

> Can you tell me WHERE to install a new 'index' page ('Documents and
> Settings/Administrator/something? so I can try that method to clear
> this up?  Or got any other ideas?  And where would I go to make mail
> and all the other links default to mozilla rather than IE?

> Microsoft tech support cannot help me because I have an OEM serial
> number. So I am seeking tech support from the readership here. If
> someone will send me email who can help, I will supply that person
> with an 800 number to reach me at by phone so it will not cost them
> anything to call me, and I will be right at the affected computer to
> follow their instructions.   Thanks very much!

> PAT



[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The problem is now cured, and it was a
thing about running one Spybot thing after another. I had found out
earlier that all the facilities worked fine under a non-administrator
account called 'ptownson', so I thought why not run the Spy Bot and
AdAware and Grisoft AVG under that account also since all three of
those things are at least partially dependent on IE 6.0 to run 
correctly anyway, which they were refusing to do under the admin 
account. By running them over and over, getting to the point of
'found and cured X files; could not cure Y files since they are
locked, reboot and let (whoever) run first thing once again, while
those files are still unlocked, etc. It took some doing, but then 
on one test of the results, presto, things were back to normal again.
PAT]

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From: Flatus Ohlfahrt <flatus@militaryretired.us>
Subject: Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0
Date: 12 Aug 2005 23:21:35 GMT
Organization: USAF Ret


On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:38:29 GMT, Paul W. Schleck wrote in
news:telecom24.364.13@telecom-digest.org: 

> Pat,

> I recall that one, or both, of these free Microsoft tools
> has an option to return your copy of Internet Explorer to
> its original factory settings:

> Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer:

> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsahome.msp
> x 

> Microsoft Anti-Spyware (Beta)

> http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/de
> fault.mspx 

> The second tool installs itself as a startup utility, and
> runs periodically to check for spyware, so make sure that
> that's what you want.  The current versions of both of
> these tools may also require that you do Microsoft's
> confirmation that you have a licensed copy of XP, so make
> sure that you're comfortable with that, also. 

> I recall you mentioning using Spybot Search and Destroy, so
> I'll assume you have run the current version already (in
> Windows "Safe Mode" and from read-only media if you want to
> be absolutely sure). 

> Paul W. Schleck
> pschleck@novia.net
> http://www.novia.net/~pschleck/
> Finger pschleck@novia.net for PGP Public Key

I think I would be inclined to try this one: Microsoft® Windows®
Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830) Here's a pointer to it:
http://tinyurl.com/4hvpc

Your caveats still apply.

Flatus


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: That 'malicious software removal tool
was quite helpful also. Thanks for the mention of it.   PAT]

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From: mc <mc_no_spam@uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:37:58 -0400


What I'd suggest is going to Disk Cleanup and removing Temporary
Internet Files.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I did that also ... it is incredible
how many files build up in the computer after just one or two days.
PAT]

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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:44:18 -0400
From: Allen McIntosh <nospam@mouse-potato.com>
Subject: Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0
Reply-To: nospam@mouse-potato.com


Have you done all the things recommended for recovery from a browser
hijack?  When this happened to me once, one of the symptoms was that
IE wouldn't start.  Unfortunately I don't usually do Windows, and I've
forgotten what program I ran to fix it.

Good luck.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Just rub and scrub many times, using
all the free anti-virus tools at your disposal.  PAT]

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Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:17:01 +1000
From: Colin <colin@sutton.wow.aust.com>
Subject: Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0


TELECOM Digest Editor wrote:

> This is an appeal to any Windows Internet Explorer person in our
> readership who can help me:

> Wednesday night/Thursday morning someone stuck me with a virus and the
> end result was my Internet Explorer browser is gone. 

Which virus? Usually a description of the virus will tell you which
files and registry settings it corrupted.

Regards,

Colin


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: It was something to do with www.coolweb
and 180Search as I recall. I also took no chances and did a complete
reload of service pack 2 of Internet Explorer 6.0. It sure was a nasty
one, and what I get for allowing my nephew to peek at some
'unwholesome' web sites while he was sitting around with nothing to do
Wednesday afternoon. In his case for sure, idle hands made a very good
devil's workshop. But now that our business has been concluded, the
funeral for his mother (my sister) has concluded, and Justin checked
on employment and housing opportunities here; he is on his way back
home to Florida as I clean up the mess he made of my computers. Poor
Justin ... a Professor of Computer Science he won't be any time soon;
but a very good hearted kid he is.   I am going to run all three of 
those anti-virus tools I have (Grisoft, AdAware and Spybot Smash
and Destroy one last time before I go to bed tonight, and I am going
to begin normal operations here using the 'ptownson' account rather
than the 'administrator' account in the future as well.   PAT]

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