TELECOM Digest     Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:49:00 EST    Volume 24 : Issue 565

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    You've Got Mail [and Maybe a Sex Disease as Well] (Jill Serjeant)
    Google Opening New Office in Pittsburgh, PA (Daniel Lovering)
    Microsoft Nug Fix Hits a Snag (Robert McMillian)
    Intel Researchers Sneak Up on Rootkits (Marcus Didius Falco)
    Cell Phone to Land Line (medfield@gmail.com)
    Bringing Prime Time to Video I-Pod (Monty Solomon)
    Re: Wikpedia Becomes Internet Force, But Faces Crisis (Dave Garland)
    Re: Wikpedia Becomes Internet Force, But Faces Crisis (Adam Frix)
    Re: HSI and Diverted 1-800-CALL-ATT? (John McHarry)

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From: Jill Serjeant <reuters@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: You've Got Mail [and Maybe a Sex Disease as Well]
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:43:21 -0600


You've got mail, and maybe gonorrhea
By Jill Serjeant

You've got mail -- and possibly gonorrhea, HIV or another sexually
transmitted disease.

E-mail sent through Web sites launched in Los Angeles and San
Francisco is providing people with a free, sometimes anonymous, way to
tell their casual sex partners they might have picked up more than
they bargained for.

Los Angeles County health officials launched http://www.inspotla.org
this week in a bid to reduce the rapidly rising spread of STDs by
encouraging sexually active men and women to get tested.

"This is another opportunity for people to disclose STD exposure to
partners because sometimes people don't always have that face-to-face
opportunity, or that level of relationship," Karen Mall, director of
prevention and testing at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, said on
Thursday.

"Partner disclosure is where we really have the opportunity to break
the chain of HIV infection," Mall said.

The site allows users to choose one of six free e-cards to send to
their sexual contacts either unsigned or with a personal message that
avoids awkward face-to-face disclosure.

"It's not what you bought to the party, it's what you left with," says
one e-card featuring a picture of a bare-chested man. "I left with an
STD. You might have one too. Get checked out soon."

"You're too hot to be out of action," says another.

The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, which runs its own counseling
services for partner disclosure, welcomed the Web site program.

"Many of the people we are seeing are listing the Internet as the
place where they are meeting partners, so the Web site is a really
helpful tool for prevention and contacting them," said Tiffany Horton,
manager of the center's sexual health program.

The site is modeled on one launched in San Francisco last year
http://www.inspot.org which is generating about 500 e-cards a month. Both
are targeted at gay men but can be used by anyone.

Health officials call the e-cards a "fast, free and flexible partner
notification system" that also gives information and links to local
testing sites.

Some 2,400 new AIDS cases were reported in Los Angeles County in 2003,
along with more than 8,000 new gonorrhea cases and 830 new syphilis
cases -- most of them among gay men.

The Web sites urge users to show respect and not to misuse the
system. Mall said only half of 1 percent of the e-cards sent through
the San Francisco site had been malicious or fraudulent.

"The sites do not give anybody the ability to do anything they can do
already if they had somebody's e-mail," Mall said.

"It is something we can monitor. People can get hold of the Web master
if they have concerns or want to complain.

"But I give the (gay) community more credit than that. I think the
community really wants to get ahead of HIV and STDs and they realize
that notification is really important," she said.


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From: Daniel Lovering <ap@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Google Opening New Office in Pennsylvania
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:45:08 -0600


Google to Open Research Facility in Pa.
By DANIEL LOVERING, AP Business Writer

Google Inc., the leading online search engine company, will open a new
engineering and research office in Pittsburgh next year to be headed
by a Carnegie Mellon University professor, the company said Thursday.

The facility will be charged with creating software search tools for
Google.  It is expected to create as many as 100 new high-tech jobs in
the Pittsburgh area over the next few years, said Craig
Nevill-Manning, director of Google's New York engineering office.

The office will be headed by Andrew Moore, a Carnegie Mellon professor
of computer science and robotics who currently runs a research
laboratory of 30 students, programmers and faculty members. Moore, 40,
is an expert in data mining and artificial intelligence.

"Andrew Moore has built his career on the twin challenges of
developing techniques to extract patterns from large data sets and
applying these machine learning methods to real-life problems," said
Randal Bryant, the dean of Carnegie Mellon's computer science school.

The office will be one of several Google has opened near universities.

The company recently joined Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems
Inc. in backing a $7.5 million Internet research laboratory at the
University of California, Berkeley. It also has facilities in New
York, Phoenix, Santa Monica, Calif., and Mountain View, Calif., where
the company is based.

Google has overseas offices in Japan, Switzerland and India.

On the Net:

Google: http://www.google.com
Carnegie Mellon University: http://www.cmu.edu

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press.

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From: Robert McMillan <IDG News@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Microsoft Bug Fix Hits a Snag
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:47:00 -0600


Robert McMillan, IDG News ServiceThu Dec 15,11:00 AM ET

Some users of Microsoft's Software Update Services may be experiencing
a minor annoyance, thanks to a glitch in the company's latest security
patches, released Tuesday. The latest update may be changing the
status of software updates that had been previously approved by
administrators who use the service, according to Microsoft.

"If you synchronize your server after December 12, 2005, all
previously approved updates may be unapproved and the status may
appear as 'updated,'" Microsoft said in a note published Wednesday.

The Software Update Services (SUS) is used by Microsoft administrators
to gain more control over which Microsoft software patches get
installed on their network. When a patch has been tested and
determined to be appropriate for installation, it can be marked as
"approved" and then automatically installed on the PCs being managed
by the service.

Tuesday's glitch disrupts that process.

Simple Fix

The problem is that the latest updates appear to have overwritten a
file that is used to keep track of approved updates, said Russ Cooper,
a scientist at security vendor Cybertrust.

Microsoft's note lists a number of workarounds for this issue, but the
simplest solution is to simply restore this file, called Approveditems.txt,
from a backup copy, Cooper said.

"This shouldn't be a big problem for anybody because you're backing up
that text file, aren't you?" he said. "But if you're not, be prepared
to do a bunch of clicking."

Microsoft plans to release a script that will reset these settings to
a previous state, the company said.

Copyright 2005 PC World Communications, Inc.

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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:50:48 -0500
From: Marcus Didius Falco <falco_marcus_didius@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: [johnmacsgroup] Intel Researchers Sneak Up on Rootkits


http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=3D167252,00.asp

Intel Researchers Sneak Up on Rootkits

By John G. Spooner and Ryan Naraine

Intel Corp.'s researchers are working to outwit cyber attackers,
including those employing stealthy rootkits.

The chip maker's Communications Technology Lab, in a project called
System Integrity Services, has created a hardware engine to sniff out
sophisticated malware attacks by monitoring the way operating systems
and critical applications interact with hardware inside computers.

By watching a computer's main memory, the System Integrity Services
can detect when an attacker takes control of the system such
attacks sever the ties between data loaded into memory by an
application and the application itself and can fool a system
so as to avoid detection while potentially allowing for surreptitious
pilfering of data or the perpetration of other attacks.

"Our threat model assumes that the attacker gets on the system somehow
and has unrestricted access to the system," said Travis Schluessler, a
security architect inside Intel's Communications Technology Lab.

System Integrity Services "assumes [the attacker] will modify what's
running in memory to fool anti-virus software or change firewall
rules so as to put the system in state where he can do
whatever he wants."

The System Integrity Service's hardware, however, can detect those
intrusions by monitoring the interactions between the applications and
memory.

Once it discovers an intrusion, it can issue an alert. Thus it sets
the bar much higher for malware being able to compromise system
without being detected, Schluessler said.

Researchers tested the system with a kernel debugger, an application
whose behaviors and ability to make system changes are similar to that
of a rootkit, to prove its effectiveness, he said.

Although it might not make it to market immediately, Intel's
anti-malware research comes at a time when anti-virus vendors are
struggling to cope with the use of stealth rootkits in malware
attacks.

Using rootkit techniques, malware writers are able to gain
administrative access to compromised machines to silently run updates
to the software or reinstall malicious programs after a user deletes
them.

If it were to be put into a product platform, Intel's System Integrity
Services could be used in conjunction with other elements, including
the Intel Active Management Technology for monitoring hardware, and
could also be used in concert with other research projects such as
Circuit Breaker.

Circuit Breaker, a research project that might also someday find its
way into products regulates an infected computer's access to a
network.

Such a combination might help quickly head off widespread infections,
which can cost companies not only in data theft by also in reduced
employee productivity due to computer downtime and heavy use of IT
resources to clean them up, the Intel researcher said.

Indeed, in one example, "Once System Integrity Services has detected a
problem, it can tell Circuit Breaker to turn [a machine] off the
primary network and switch it over to a remediation network," he said.

The System Integrity Services project is part of a broader focus on
security inside Intel's labs.

That focus has been brought about by the chip maker's recent shift to
designing platforms around devices such as servers or desktop PCs.

Unlike when it sold chips individually, the platform design strategy
has Intel creating numerous add-ons, which include features such as
virtualization and the Intel Active Management Technology, which are
designed to increase the usability and manageability of desktops,
notebooks and servers.

Many of Intel's more advanced worm and virus detection technology are
still at the research stage today some of Intel's other projects
include worm signature detectors called autograph and polygraph but it
could easily wind up as features inside Intel's future product
platforms.

Aside from being used to improve the products for customers, they
could also be added to bolster Intel's competitiveness versus its
rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

The System Integrity Services' prototype hardware uses one of Intel's
Xscale processors, which Schluessler said was overkill, and plugs into
a PCI slot.

A future version could potentially be built for a relatively small fee
and included with Intel platforms, not unlike the way it packages
wireless modules with its processors and chipsets for its
Centrino-brand notebooks.

"You can tie this technology in with AMT and the CPU [in each machine]
and all of a sudden you've got something that's more than the sum of
its parts," Schluessler said.

Aside from working with Intel's own platforms, the technologies could
be also tied in with products from Intel's close partners, including
operating system and application vendors, the company's researchers
have said.

"We said, 'What kind of things can we do to address these challenges?'
That has driven a lot of the platform thinking, whether it's VT [Intel
Virtualization Technology] or active management, and how all those
things work together," said Dylan Larson, network security initiatives
manager at Intel's Communications Technology Lab, in a recent
interview with Ziff Davis Internet.

"We've had security expertise and lots of competency in this space for
a long time. Now we're looking at this even more from a platform level
on how we can bring these things together to drive new value to
customers."

The lab is also working on a projects called Autograph and Polygraph
projects, which are designed to help prevent large-scale worm
infections altogether by analyzing individual worms and quickly
publishing data on how to detect them.

Autograph and Polygraph employ a combination of heuristics and good
old sleuthing to track down worms and locate their signatures or the
unique pattern of data required for its particular exploit and then
notify other systems with those signatures so that they can move to
identify and block the worm, said Brad Karp, at Intel Research
Pittsburg, a lab located on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University.

Autograph's source code has been made available for download via the
university's Web site, and Karp and his team are also working on a
Polygraph, a similar program which can sniff out so-called polymorphic
worms, which change each time they replicate in an effort to cover up
their signatures and thwart the defense used in Autograph.

The next step for the Systems Integrity Services now lies with Intel's
platform development teams, which will make the call on whether or not
to add the technology to its future systems, Schluessler said.

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From: medfield@gmail.com
Subject: Cell Phone to Land Line
Date: 15 Dec 2005 16:26:37 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Hello, I need some help.  I have been searching Google all day long
looking for a solution for a possible Christmas gift.  What I am
trying to find out is how do I create my own docking station for a
cell phone.

My brother has an LG vx4500
http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/wireless/detail-page/vx4500-1.gif
and I am trying to connect it to a Homer Simpson phone (land line)
http://www.lazerbuilt.co.uk/graphics/phones/805homers.jpg

I know they make docking stations online, like the dock-n-talk or
Cidco Merge.  But what I really want to try and do is make the
connector myself; it really shouldn't be that hard, so figured I would
ask around online for some tips.

I know sparkfun had an article for a rotary phone
http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/Port-O-Rotary/portable-rotary.htm but
that just seemed way to complicated, or maybe it is suppost to be. I
dont know.

Any response would be gratefully appreciated.

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From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Bringing Prime Time to Video iPod
Date: 15 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST


Bringing prime time to video iPod

By Ina Fried

Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Even with a few more TV shows added to the iTunes store, Chris Cardone
said he just can't get enough good video for his video iPod.

So, increasingly, the Cincinnati-based anesthesiologist has been
turning to a little-known program called MyTV ToGo, which lets him
take shows recorded to his Windows Media Center PC and put them
directly onto his video iPod.

"It's fantastic," Cardone said. There were some bugs with the software
at first, and it could be a bit slow, he added. But when he was stuck
at the hospital on call for hours, at least he did not run out of
shows to watch.  News.context

Even with Apple Computer's deal last week to add 11 NBC shows to the
iTunes store, there still is a paucity of top-shelf video content for
the iPod. Digital recording specialist TiVo is promising to change
that, but its video-on-the-go option for the iPod won't be ready until
next year.

But in stepped little Proxure, a San Luis Obispo, Calif.-based
developer, with its $30 MyTV ToGo utility. It takes shows recorded by
Microsoft's Windows Media Center software on a PC, converts them and
transfers them into a special playlist on the iPod.

The tiny software maker focused on data synchronization software until
it debuted the first version of MyTV ToGo earlier this year.  That
product took recorded TV shows from a Windows Media Center PC and put
them on a Pocket PC handheld. Proxure developed the software before
portable video devices like the new iPod or Sony's PlayStation
Portable became popular.

http://news.com.com/2100-1026-5994073.html

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From: Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com>
Subject: Re: Wikpedia Becomes Internet Force, But Faces Crisis
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:54:04 -0600
Organization: Wizard Information


It was a dark and stormy night when kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
wrote:

> I had no idea that Wikipedia had any credibility to question.  Do
> people really take these things seriously?  --scott

The journal Nature just released a study comparing it to
Britannica. The investigators peer-reviewed science articles from the
two sources:

The exercise revealed numerous errors in both encyclopaedias, but
among 42 entries tested, the difference in accuracy was not
particularly great: the average science entry in Wikipedia contained
around four inaccuracies; Britannica, about three ...

Of a total of 42 comparison reviews:

Only eight serious errors, such as misinterpretations of important
concepts, were detected in the pairs of articles reviewed, four from
each encyclopaedia. But reviewers also found many factual errors,
omissions or misleading statements: 162 and 123 in Wikipedia and
Britannica, respectively.

They don't say, but I expect the quality of writing was better, and
more consistent, in Britannica.

No mention of whether telephony was one of the subjects reviewed. 

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html

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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:08:38 -0500
From: Adam Frix <afrix@runbox.com>
Subject: Re: Wikpedia Becomes Internet Force, But Faces Crisis


In article <telecom24.564.15@telecom-digest.org>, kludge@panix.com
(Scott Dorsey) wrote:

> I had no idea that Wikipedia had any credibility to question.  Do
> people really take these things seriously?  --scott

> "C'est un Nagra.  C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Wikipedia _is_ considered an important
> source of information on the net in many circles. There are many
> experts (in their field) who have written for it and peer-review the
> things others have written, however the two recent 'pranks' played on
> them have damaged their credibility somewhat.   PAT]

No matter how many "experts in their field" who contribute, Wikipedia
is still nothing more than "I read it on the internet, therefore it
must be true".

Students write whatever they want into the Wikipedia, then quote it
and reference the Wiki in their school work.

The work of experts can be undone by a simple prankster, eh?  Sounds
like a bad idea to me.  Next time it won't be a prankster, it'll be
someone who isn't an expert but only THINKS he's an expert -- and then
who's to say what you believe?

No, the whole concept of the Wikipedia was flawed to begin with --
because of simple human nature.

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From: John McHarry <jmcharry@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: HSI and Diverted 1-800-CALL-ATT?
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:08:08 GMT
Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net


On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:16:57 -0500, Carl Moore wrote:

> From memory, I saw "HSI" on a pay phone outside a convenience store
> last Sunday (it was at a Turkey Hill store on Lampter Road north of
> -- NOT LOCATED RIGHT AT -- Pennsylvania route 741).  I apparently
> punched in 1-800-2255-288 (1-800-CALL-ATT) okay, but got sent to
> a collect-call menu of some sort.  This is conjuring up some memory
> of "I HATE COCOTS" in this digest many years ago.  Has this ever
> happened before where a telephone number was "intercepted" in this
> manner?  Fortunately, there was nothing urgent about my attempted
> call; more of an effort to get that telephone's number onto my bill
>(failed!).

Maybe it is time to revive PAT's old Out of Order stickers to be slapped
right over their coin slots. To have any effect it would have to say why
the thing was out of order and be difficult to remove. 


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: If anyone wants to work on this
project, they should look in our archives http://telecom-digest.org in
the section dealing with COCOTS and find the 'out of order sticker'
report there.   PAT]

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