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The Telecom Digest for Fri, 07 Jun 2019
Volume 38 : Issue 158 : "text" format

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Trump Has Already Committed An Impeachable Offense During His London TripBill Horne
Re: Do you know where there are Teletype machines for sale?gv.kwiebe@gmail.com
Re: Apple is building a major defense against spam calls into iOS 13Naveen Albert
In a rare advisory, NSA urges users to patch BlueKeep flaw Monty Solomon
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190605150757.GA21958@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 15:07:57 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Trump Has Already Committed An Impeachable Offense During His London Trip By Sean Colarossi Donald Trump has only been in London for two days, but he has already managed to commit an impeachable offense. During a discussion with MSNBC's Ari Melber, former editor-in-chief of Slate Jacob Weisberg said that while many like to focus on the Mueller report or obstruction of justice, Trump is committing other unrelated impeachable offenses. https://www.politicususa.com/2019/06/04/trump-has-already-committed-an-impeachable-offense-during-his-london-trip.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <ebbf8bb7-bc03-4f97-b01c-981e463d4116@googlegroups.com> Date: 5 Jun 2019 13:57:19 -0700 From: gv.kwiebe@gmail.com Subject: Re: Do you know where there are Teletype machines for sale? [Telecom] On Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:32:09 PM UTC-8, Bill Horne wrote: > I subscribe to a mailing list for Teletype users, called GREENKEYS. > > One of the readers posted a request for info on whether a Model 15 > Teletype is available for purchase, and it got me wondering if any of > the Digest's readers have knowledge in this area. > > Does anyone know of any repository of Teletype machines? I can't help > but wonder if some Baby Bell has a warehouse full of them, and there's > a fair number of users who'd be delighted to get at them. > > Thanks for your time. > > Bill > > -- > E. William Horne > William Warren Consulting > http://www.william-warren.com/ > > "While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. > It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual'." > -- Dogbert I am in the market for a 33 ASR which is not a project machine, but fully operational... Please email or reply. Thanks, Ken ***** Moderator's Note ***** Please tell us what you'll be using it for: given that Teletype is out of business, and parts may be hard to find, you'll almost always do better with [any PC] and [any printer]. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <BN6PR1301MB2098A755A9BE6E38F5B97FD691160@BN6PR1301MB2098.namprd13.prod.outlook.com> Date: 5 Jun 2019 23:03:06 +0000 From: "Naveen Albert" <wirelessaction@outlook.com> Subject: Re: Apple is building a major defense against spam calls into iOS 13 On 4 Jun 2019 at 01:55:02 -0400, Telecom Digest Moderator wrote: > The solution to spam calls is the same one I've advocated for years: > answer the call, and do everything you can to waste the time of a > real human. Everything else is just talk, but the warm bodies have > to be paid with real money, and if even a small percentage of > victims fought back, the industry would be out of business inside a > year. I have a couple of questions. I have an Asterisk node with around 900 PSTN DIDs coming into it, and as a result, I get a fair volume of calls from random numbers. *Sometimes*, by sheer luck, they happen to pick one of the numbers that rings one of my telephones. Usually I'm not there, but I find out about it later while trawling the logs. Anyhow, I wanted input on the following suggestions: 1. Playing an ear-splitting loud milliwatt tone to verified spam callers. (perhaps using VOLUME(TX)=10 in Asterisk). 2. Obviously wasting their time is good, but that also wastes your time - what about sending such calls to Lenny, or a variation thereof? Perhaps recording numerous common prompts one would use to waste a telemarketer's time, and then setting it up so every call is different, in a way that wouldn't immediately let them know they were "talking to a machine" I wouldn't do either of these automatically, so as not to punish valid callers. But perhaps if I setup an easy way to transfer obvious spam calls to an extension that did one of these, it could be practical. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <873B705D-4B4D-493C-A39B-62F9490B60E8@roscom.com> Date: 5 Jun 2019 11:57:27 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: In a rare advisory, NSA urges users to patch BlueKeep flaw The National Security Agency has issued a rare advisory warning users to update their systems to protect against BlueKeep, a new security vulnerability with the capacity to rapidly spread between computers. The "critical"-rated bug affecting computers running Windows XP and later, can be exploited to remotely run malware at the system level, which has full access to the computer. Because the bug is remotely exploitable, any unpatched computer connected to the internet may be at risk. https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/05/nsa-advisory-bluekeep-patch/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 07 Jun 2019

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