TELECOM Digest     Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:39:00 EST    Volume 24 : Issue 513

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Three Companies Shut Down by Court on Spyware Charges (Reuters News Wire)
    Hackers Use Sony BMG to Hide on PCs (Reuters News Wire)
    Senior Citizen Bloggers Defy Stereotypes (Carla K. Johnson)
    Gold at the End of Rainbow Cracking? (Monty Solomon)
    The Best Way to Get From Here to There (Monty Solomon)
    Infone to Shut Down (J Kelly)
    Re: Phishers Lure Google Users With Bogus Google Cash Prizes (Tim@backhome)
    Re: Phishers Lure Google Users With Bogus Google Cash Prizes (H. Henhouse)
    Re: Telephone History Enquiry: Earliest Pre-Pay Calls (Lisa Hancock)
    Re: Verizon Reduces Prices for Phone Service (Tony P.)

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From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Three Companies Shut Down by U.S. Court on Spyware Charges
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:40:40 -0600


A U.S. court on Thursday shut down three Internet companies for
secretly bundling malicious "spyware" with ring tones, music programs
and other free high-tech goodies, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission
said on Thursday.

The malicious software tracked victims' Internet activity, hijacked
their home pages and deluged them with unwanted "pop up" ads, the FTC
said.

The assets of Enternet Media Inc. and Conspy & Co. Inc., based in
California, and Iwebtunes, based in Ohio, have been frozen pending
further court action, the FTC said. The court also ordered all three
firms to immediatly halt downloads of the software.

Enternet Media and Iwebtunes could not be reached for comment. Conspy
did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

According to a complaint filed in district court in Los Angeles,
Enternet and Conspy bundled their malicious software with music files,
song lyrics and cellular telephone ring tones offered free on a range
of Web sites. The software was also disguised as a security upgrade
for Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer Web browser.

Iwebtines bundled the spyware with a program that plays background
music on blogs, the FTC said.

Once lodged on a victim's computer, the spyware was difficult to
remove, the FTC said.

Microsoft, Google Inc. and Webroot Software Inc. helped FTC with the
investigation, the FTC said.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in May that would
stiffen jail sentences and establish multimillion-dollar fines for
spyware purveyors, but the Senate has not yet taken it up.

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. 

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From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Hackers Use Sony BMG to Hide on PCs
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:37:10 -0600


A computer security firm said on Thursday it had discovered the first
virus that uses music publisher Sony BMG's controversial CD
copy-protection software to hide on PCs and wreak havoc.

Under a subject line containing the words "Photo approval," a hacker
has mass-mailed the so-called Stinx-E trojan virus to British email
addresses, said British anti-virus firm Sophos.

When recipients click on an attachment, they install malware, which
may tear down a computer's firewall and give hackers access to a
PC. The malware hides by using Sony BMG software that is also hidden
 -- the software would have been installed on a computer when consumers
played Sony's copy-protected music CDs.

"This leaves Sony in a real tangle. It was already getting bad press
about its copy-protection software, and this new hack exploit will
make it even worse," said Sophos's Graham Cluley.

Later on Thursday, security software firm Symantec Corp. also
discovered the first trojans to abuse the security flaw in Sony BMG's
copy-protection software. A trojan is a program that appears desirable
but actually contains something harmful.

Sony BMG's spokesman John McKay in New York was not immediately
available to comment.

The music publishing venture of Japanese electronics conglomerate Sony
Corp.  and Germany's Bertelsmann AG is distributing the copy-
protection software on a range of recent music compact disks (CDs)
from artists such as Celine Dion and Sarah McLachlan.

When the CD is played on a Windows personal computer, the software
first installs itself and then limits the usage rights of a consumer. 
It only allows playback with Sony software.

The software sparked a class action lawsuit against Sony in California
last week, claiming that Sony has not informed consumers that it
installs software directly into the "roots" of their computer systems
with rootkit software, which cloaks all associated files and is
dangerous to remove.

Sophos said it would have a tool to disable the copy protection
software available later on Thursday.

Sony BMG made a patch available on its Web site on Tuesday that rids a
PC from the "cloaking" element that is part of the copy-protection
software, while claiming that "the component is not malicious and does
not compromise security."

The patch does not disable the copy protection itself.

The Sony copy-protection software does not install itself on Macintosh
computers or ordinary CD and DVD players.

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.

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From: Carla K. Johnson <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Senior Citizen Bloggers Defy Stereotypes
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:38:51 -0600


By CARLA K. JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer

Forget shuffleboard, needlepoint and bingo. Web logs, more often the
domain of alienated adolescents and home to screeds by middle-aged
pundits, are gaining a foothold as a new leisure-time option for
senior citizens.

There's Dad's Tomato Garden Journal, Dogwalk Musings, and, of course,
the Oldest Living Blogger.

"It's too easy to sit in your own cave and let the world go by, eh?"
said Ray Sutton, the 73-year-old Oldest Living Blogger and a retired
electrician who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. "It keeps the
old head working a little bit so you're not just sitting there gawking
at TV."

Web logs, or blogs, are online journals where people write about
anything and everything that interests them. Blogs tend to be topical,
and typically offer links to other Web sites, photos and opportunities
for readers to comment.

Bloggers say their hobby keeps them up on current events, lets them
befriend strangers around the globe and gives them a voice in a
society often deaf to the wisdom of the elderly.

"It brings out the best in me," said Boston-area blogger Millie
Garfield, 80, who writes My Mom's Blog with occasional help from her
son, Steve Garfield, a digital video producer. "My life would be dull
without it."

And it's brought her a bit of fame.

In June, Garfield was invited to speak at a Boston seminar for
marketers on how to use the Web more effectively. A short video of the
event, posted on her blog, captures the professionals laughing at her
wisecrack about the benefits of a man who can still drive at night.

Sutton, the Oldest Living Blogger, has also enjoyed some limelight. He
was asked to take part in a talk radio debate on a controversial
high-voltage power line after he posted his views about it on his
blog.

Three percent of online U.S. seniors have created a blog and 17
percent have read someone else's blog, according to the Pew Internet &
American Life Project. Compare that to online 18- to 29-year-olds:
Thirteen percent have created blogs and 32 percent have read someone
else's blog, according to Pew.

Joe Jenett, a Detroit-area Web designer who has been tracking the age
of bloggers for a personal project called the Ageless Project, said he
has noticed more older bloggers in the past two years.

"Isn't that phenomenal? And their writing is vibrant," Jenett said. He
noted that sites such as Blogger.com give step-by-step instructions
and free hosting, making it simpler to self-publish on the Web.

"It's easy to start one if you can connect dots," said former Jesuit
priest and retired newspaperman Jim Bowman, 73, of Oak Park, Ill.

Bowman writes four regular blogs: one on happenings in his city, one a
catchall for his opinions, one on religion and one offering feedback
on Chicago newspapers. Bowman once had eight separate blogs, but has
let some lapse. The blog topics he doesn't keep up with anymore
include ideas for sermons, Chicago history and condominium life.

"Like any other hobby, you've got to make sure it doesn't take over,"
he said.

Mari Meehan, 64, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, has been blogging since
July. It's given her a voice in her small resort town where, as a
relative newcomer, she felt rebuffed in her efforts to get involved.

Inspired by other local bloggers she'd found on The Spokesman-Review
(Spokane, Wash.) newspaper's Web site, Meehan discovered it was easy
to get started.

"If you can read, you can do it," she said. She titled her blog
Dogwalk Musings and based it on the premise that she would write about
her thoughts during morning walks with her St. Bernard, Bacchus. Her
posts range from nature sightings of a kildeer's nest with four eggs
to rants about local and national politics.

When readers started mentioning Dogwalk Musings as one of their
favorites on a newspaper columnist's blog, Meehan said she felt
compelled to post every day.

But now she's backing off. "Lots of times, I'll walk away from it for
three or four days," Meehan said. "I'm not going to let it take over."

Response from blog readers does keep many older bloggers returning to
their keyboards day after day. If they skip a day, readers will e-mail
the older bloggers, asking if they're sick.

In the two years since 92-year-old retired Tennessee poultry and egg
farmer Ray White started Dad's Tomato Garden Journal, the blog has
been viewed more than 45,000 times.

White's daughter, Mary, said the blog keeps her father interested in
life.  White now has friends he's never met in England, Portugal,
Germany, Canada and all 50 states, he said.

"You'd be surprised how many questions I get during the tomato
season," he said. "There's always somebody having a problem."


On the Net:

The Ageless Project: http://jenett.org/ageless/
Blogger: http://www.blogger.com
Oldest Living Blogger: http://www.urbanvancouver.com/blog/ray
Chicago Newspapers: The Blog: http://www.chicagonewspapers.blogspot.com/
My Mom's Blog: http://mymomsblog.blogspot.com/
Dogwalk Musings: http://dogwalkmusings.blogspot.com/
Dad's Tomato Garden Journal:
http://journals.aol.com/white6416r/DadsTomatoGardenJournal/

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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:11:26 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Gold at the End of Rainbow Cracking?


Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-11-09

A trio of entrepreneurial hackers hope to do for the business of
password cracking what Google did for search and, in the process, may
remove the last vestiges of security from many password systems.

Over the past two years, three security enthusiasts from the United
States and Europe set a host of computers to the task of creating
eleven enormous tables of data that can be used to look up common
passwords. The tables -- totaling 500GB -- form the core data of a
technique known as rainbow cracking, which uses vast dictionaries of
data to let anyone reverse the process of creating hashes -- the
statistically unique codes that, among other duties, are used to
obfuscate a user's password.

Last week, the trio went public with their service. Called RainbowCrack
Online and submit password hashes for cracking.

http://www.rainbowcrack-online.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11355

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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:53:22 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: The Best Way to Get From Here to There


By WALTER S. MOSSBERG

Fewer and fewer drivers use traditional fold-out maps in the car.
Instead, they simply print out maps and directions for where they're
heading from one of the popular mapping sites on the Web, often
moments before they leave.

One such Web site, MapQuest, a subsidiary of America Online at
www.MapQuest.com, has long been a favorite. Its straightforward,
no-frills approach asks you to enter "start" and "end" points for your
trip, and selecting "Get Directions" completes your navigational
duties. Numbered instructions, a map, and an estimated total time and
distance for the trip are retrieved to help you along your journey.
Yahoo also built a following with a similar plain mapping site.

But, since Google entered the category with a flashy new type of
mapping service earlier this year, competition in the online-mapping
category has heated up. All of the big portals and search engines are
looking to build their local search businesses, which they see as a
golden opportunity for ad sales and other revenue. And they have come
to see their mapping functions as a gateway to these local search
databases, which make it easy to find businesses and services in the
areas people want to map.

This week, my assistant Katie Boehret and I tested the old reliable,
MapQuest, against Google Local, http://maps.google.com, and a new,
enhanced version of Yahoo Maps, http://maps.yahoo.com/beta. Yahoo's
new site was just released last week, and it's still in its "beta," or
test, phase.

http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/solution-20051109.html

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From: J Kelly <jkelly@newsguy.com>
Subject: Infone to Shut Down
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:48:16 -0600
Organization: http://newsguy.com
Reply-To: jkelly@newsguy.com


I remember a couple years back some posts about Infone, the Metro One
"teleconcierge" service.  I got an email today from Infone telling me
their service will be closing up shop on 12/31/05.  I used it a few
times and was quite pleased with the service.  I hate to see it go,
but I guess they only managed to attract about 83,000 subs after
spending $70 million to promote the service.  Not a real money maker.

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From: Tim@backhome.com
Subject: Re: Phishers Lure Google Users With Bogus Google Cash Prizes
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:54:44 -0800
Organization: Cox Communications


Steven Lichter wrote:

> I think when these people are cought, they should just shoot them
> right on the spot, after a few public shootings then they will all get
> the idea!!!!

I would add to that list people who run red lights and stop signs,
don't use their turn indicators (especially for left turns in front of
on-coming traffic, and who weave in and out of metro freeway traffic
at 90 mph.

Come to think of it, people who use cell phones in nice restaurants
should also be summarily executed. ;-)

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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:52:22 -0800
From: Henry Cabot Henhouse III <sooper_chicken@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Phishers Lure Google Users With Bogus Google Cash Prizes


Steven Lichter <shlichter@diespammers.com> wrote in message 
news:telecom24.512.10@telecom-digest.org:

> Jay Wrolstad wrote:

>> Jay Wrolstad, newsfactor.com

>> An online scam offering the lure of free money through a bogus Google
>> Web site has been uncovered by security company Websense, which
>> reported that the site was shut down about 30 hours after it was first
>> discovered on Monday.

[snip]

>> Copyright 2005 NewsFactor Network, Inc.

> I think when these people are cought, they should just shoot them
> right on the spot, after a few public shootings then they will all get
> the idea!!!!

> 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.

I'm looking forward to the day when a few hackers in Moscow crack in to a 
system the Russian Mafia uses ... can we say "execution" ? Hum ... here's an 
idea ... there are many countries that routinely violate human rights ... 
let's take up a collection and bribe a judge to impose a few death sentences 
here and there on script kiddies and phishers :)

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Telephone History Enquiry: Earliest Pre-Pay Calls
Date: 10 Nov 2005 13:43:25 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


John R. Covert wrote:

> Telephone History Buffs:

> I'm looking for information on early pre-pay systems that did not
> require special telephones.  To be relevant to my search, the pre-pay
> system would need to:

> 1. Have been implemented before 1987.
> 2. Have documentation that we could find today.
> 3. Not require special telephone stations.

Are you talking about long distance, local service, or both?

I am not aware of any such services offered to the general market.  It
is possible some sub-contractors might have offered such a service to
a limited population, such as boarding house residents or college
students in a dorm, where a private PBX operator manually tracked
calls and verified deposit balances.

It is possible the phone company offered such services on a trial or
limited basis in a few locations.

Deposit accounts of various sorts were common in institutions.
Students would get meal cards which would get punched for each meal
eaten until the card was punched down.  Such prepaid accounts would be
used in other situations such as laundry or for transient populations
where the risk of default was high.  Transit fare tokens are a form of
a deposit account -- you buy the tokens in advance and use them as you
go.  There were once tokens for laundries, cafeterias, etc.

Today mag cards and computers have replaced cardboard and tokens.
Toll bridges have deposit accounts and cars use transponders ("EZ
PASS").

It was common for the telephone company to require an up front deposit
for someone to get telephone service if they never had it before or
had bad credit.  If you paid your bill on time for a while the deposit
would be refunded.* They said long distance charges would be monitored
and suspended if I exceeded my deposit balance.  I was making many
calls but never heard from them.

I do wonder how closely Bell monitored toll usage against deposit
balances.  I've heard they got burned by people running up big bills
and not paying them, despite having a deposit.  The PUCs tend to favor
the poor guy over the big corporation.

*(I recall getting a handsome refund check still using the old style
Bell logo and Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania spelled out in
fancy type even though they had the modern logo and went by Bell of
PA).

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From: Tony P. <kd1s.nospam@nospam.cox.nosapm.net>
Subject: Re: Verizon Reduces Prices for Phone Service
Organization: Ace Tomato and Cement Co.
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:34:30 -0500


In article <telecom24.509.2@telecom-digest.org>, ap@telecom-digest.org 
say:

> By BRUCE MEYERSON, AP Business Writer

> Verizon Communications Inc. sharply cut its prices for unlimited
> telephone service across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic on Tuesday,
> including markets where Cablevision Inc. has just boosted broadband
> Internet speeds.

> The latest jockeying augurs an ever fiercer struggle ahead between the
> phone and cable TV industries, with consumers getting lower prices and
> advanced services.

> The new Verizon plans range from $35 to $40 for unlimited local and
> domestic long-distance plus call waiting, caller ID and voice mail, or
> from $30 to $35 for unlimited calling with no extra features. Taxes
> and surcharges typically add $10 to $20 to the monthly bill.

> Those rates are at least $15 cheaper than any of Verizon's existing
> packages with unlimited calling, although many of those plans include
> a larger selection of features and calls to Canada.

While they might be $15 cheaper they don't beat the $27 a month I pay 
for VoIP. 
 
> The aggressive offers mark another tactical maneuver in the developing
> showdown between phone and cable companies. The two industries are
> increasingly venturing into one another's traditional markets in a bid
> to win new customers with a one-stop-shop for calling, Internet, TV
> and wireless services.

> Verizon and fellow regional phone provider SBC Communications Inc. are
> spending billions to replace their copper phone lines with fiber-optic
> cables that can deliver cable TV, far-speedier Internet connections
> and new multimedia and interactive services.

> Using those new lines, Verizon recently introduced TV in its first
> market, a suburb of Dallas, and now offers broadband download speeds
> from 5 to 30 megabits per second in 800 communities in 15 states.

> At the same time, Verizon is also competing aggressively on price with
> its slower DSL service, introducing a $15 a month plan last month, and
> now offering unlimited calling at rates almost competitive with the
> $20 to $30 a month charged by providers of voice over Internet phone
> services.

> SBC has made similar moves in cutting its phone and DSL rates in a bid
> to keep subscribers from leaving and to attract news ones while it
> prepares for next year's launch of TV and speedier broadband
> connections.

> Cable companies, which have already lured away more than 5 million
> customers for their new phone services, are responding by boosting
> their broadband speeds and venturing into cellular service.

> Cablevision, which competes with Verizon in New York City and its
> suburbs, on Monday announced it was increasing the maximum download
> speed of its lowest-price broadband service to 15 megabits per second,
> up from a maximum of 10 -- which was already several times faster than
> most consumer DSL services. The company also introduced new 30 and 50
> Mbps options to compete with Verizon's new FiOS fiber optic offerings.

> And last week, four of the nation's biggest cable providers announced
> a deal with Sprint Nextel Corp. to introduce co-branded cell phone
> service by the middle of 2006.

> The lower-priced Verizon calling plans, first introduced last month at
> slightly higher rates in California, Texas and Florida, are being
> offered in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
> Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

> There's no timetable for when Verizon might introduce the new plans in
> its remaining local phone territories in North Carolina, South
> Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin,
> Nevada, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

> Copyright 2005 The Associated Press.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: How odd ... so even SBC is in on this
> new pricing structure. I can recall when our local CLEC 'Prairie
> Stream Communications' first opened for business in 2002, they were
> offering flat rate, open-ended packages of _everything_ for $25.00
> per month, and SBC complained to the Kansas Commission that 'Prairie
> Stream is being predatory'; although the Commission left Prairie
> Stream alone on it, SBC continually complained that 'Prairie Stream
> will not stay in business very long at that pricing'. So now, Verizon
> and SBC are gradually lowering their prices as well.   PAT]

Too little too late. They ILEC's are getting hit on all sides these
days. People are tired of paying too much for phone service.

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