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The Telecom Digest for Wed, 29 Apr 2020
Volume 39 : Issue 104 : "text" format

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Former Moore cell phone shop employee uncovers massive nationwide security breach
"We Take Down the Network Four Times a Year"
RE: Exploding iPhones? Not Our Fault, Apple Says
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20200428191741.GA959@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:17:41 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Former Moore cell phone shop employee uncovers massive nationwide security breach by: Austin Breasette MOORE, Okla. (KFOR) - Thousands of employees' personal information was sent right to a former Prime Communications employee's email. "I've never experienced anything like this before," said Tonya Smith. Smith said nothing but nervousness filled her mind after the human resources department sent her 105 pages of personal information of thousands of Prime Communications employees across the nation. https://kfor.com/news/former-moore-cell-phone-shop-employee-uncovers-massive-nationwide-security-breach/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200428191008.GA805@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:10:08 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: "We Take Down the Network Four Times a Year" This post on Reddit may explain some things ... (mod) ------------------ We take down the network 4 times a year. Does your enterprise also batch up disruptive changes like this? Like the title says, we arrange with our business customers for their applications and services to be unavailable for several hours over a weekend, 4 times a year. We pay so much for redundant networking gear that I feel like this is a backwards way of doing things. https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/g90k80/we_take_down_the_network_4_times_a_year_does_your/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <54c12fb3e08642e0802b40b352612cba@MBX-LS1.itorg.ad.buffalo.edu> Date: 27 Apr 2020 12:50:01 +0000 From: "Pawlowski, Adam" <ajp26@buffalo.edu> Subject: RE: Exploding iPhones? Not Our Fault, Apple Says Good morning Bill, I'm sure by the time I've sent this several other replies may have come your way - but , if not That article linked is from 2009, and a particularly old generation of iPhone. Was there another article more recent that prompted this to come back up? I haven't heard about battery issues such as this in quite some time, but, that doesn't mean they're not out there. Regards, Adam Pawlowski ***** Moderator's Note ***** Ooops. Sorry: my mistook. Of course, if more readers were to submit items of more recent interest ... Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Wed, 29 Apr 2020
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