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The Telecom Digest for Sat, 17 Aug 2019
Volume 38 : Issue 228 : "text" format

Table of contents
Car Advertising Scam Continues To Make The RoundsBill Horne
Florida Spa Involved In "Nasty" TCPA Text Message Lawsuit Bill Horne
U.S. Agencies Cannot Enter Contracts That Use Chinese Telecom TechnologyBill Horne
Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political OpponentsMonty Solomon
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190815202627.GA8837@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:26:27 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Car Advertising Scam Continues To Make The Rounds by Eide Bailly If you receive a text or email asking you about making money by wrapping your car with a logo, it's unfortunately not a new way to make money in the "gig" economy. It's a scam, pure and simple. How the Scam Steals Your Money The "car wrap" or "car advertising" scam typically goes something like this: http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=836508&email_access=on -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190815204045.GA9132@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:40:45 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Florida Spa Involved In "Nasty" TCPA Text Message Lawsuit by David O. Klein On July 22, 2019, Amanda Defranks ("Plaintiff") filed a putative Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") class action lawsuit against clothing retailer, nastygal.com USA Inc. ("nastygal.com"). The TCPA text message lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida and is captioned Amanda Defranks v. nastygal.com USA Inc., Case No. 1:19-cv-23028-DPG. http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=836166&email_access=on -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190815203329.GA8960@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:33:29 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: U.S. Agencies Cannot Enter Contracts That Use Chinese Telecom Technology New Rule Implementing NDAA Prohibition: U.S. Agencies Cannot Enter Contracts That Use Chinese Telecom Technology by John P. Carlin, Nicholas J. Spiliotes, W. Jay DeVecchio, Panagiotis C. Bayz and Charles L. Capito, III The latest in a string of U.S. government (USG) actions restricting the use of Chinese technology in the U.S. supply chain is an interim rule issued by the Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration (GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) implementing the first phase of Section 889 of the FY2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This rule, which goes into effect on August 13, 2019, prohibits federal agencies from buying "covered telecommunications equipment or services as a substantial or essential component of any system, or as critical technology as part of any system" from designated Chinese entities, including Huawei Technologies Company Ltd. (Huawei) and ZTE Corporation (ZTE), and several providers of video surveillance equipment and services. We detail this proscription below and summarize how the rule shifts the compliance burden to government contractors. http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=836172&email_access=on -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <A88AA80F-CBBE-46EA-841C-C1362C0629D8@roscom.com> Date: 15 Aug 2019 00:32:05 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents Employees embedded with cybersecurity forces in Uganda and Zambia intercepted encrypted communications and used cell data to track opponents, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation By Joe Parkinson, Nicholas Bariyo and Josh Chin KAMPALA, Uganda - Huawei Technologies Co., the world's largest telecommunications company, dominates African markets, where it has sold security tools that governments use for digital surveillance and censorship. https://www.wsj.com/articles/huawei-technicians-helped-african-governments-spy-on-political-opponents-11565793017 ***** Moderator's Note ***** It seems the Big Red Menace has returned, in the form of a competitor to Wester Electric that is located in (GASP!) a COM-MU-NIST country! I guess the Wall Street Journal isn't making enough off their paywall, and has been forced to go, hat in hand, to the Great White Father in Washington for a promise of a one-on-one with a the first barracks emperor during the second fall of Rome, except that the Journal's editors seem to have missed the lead - that they are giving free ink to a guttersnipe and a daddy's boy who has been standing on dead man's legs all his life. Amid accusations that the BIG RED MENACE is "stealing" "our" software and "our" industrial trade secrets and "our" ghod-given way-of-life, our very own communist elites are plotting ways to drive a chrome car bumber into our backside and herd us back to the fiefdoms of medieval times. Amid the double-dealing and backstabbing and Lolita Express flights for the top 1% of the top 1%, we're being led down a garden path to another McCarthy era which is now being built in the same factory where they make manufactured housing for the wage slaves of the greatest country on earth. News flash, Journal editors: the National Security Agency spends 86,400,000 milliseconds out of every day listening to, correlating, analyzing, and selling the secrets of every inventor, author, vi- sionary, and truth-teller in these great big Unites States! How about a story on THAT kleptocracy, Mr. Dow and Mr. Jones? Bill Horne Moderator Moderator's Note Copyright (C) 2019 E.W. Horne. All Rights Reserved. ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 17 Aug 2019

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