Message-ID: <20220309150021.BDDC8892@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 15:00:21 +0000 (UTC)
From: Sean Murphy <murphy.s@remove-this.telecomdigest.net>
Subject: Public-Safety Broadband Network: Congressional Action
Required to Ensure Network Continuity
Legislation set up an independent authority (FirstNet) to create a
nationwide broadband network for first responders, such as police
officers and firefighters. FirstNet contracted with AT&T to deploy the
network, which will be fully operational in 2023.
But this law terminates FirstNet's authority in 2027, and doesn't
identify another federal agency to oversee network operations or
updates. Without legislative action, the public-safety network will be
at risk and first responders could lose service.
Congress should consider reauthorizing FirstNet before the 2027 end
date to ensure network continuity.
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-104915
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Date: 9 Mar 2022 01:38:58 -0500
From: "Nigel Allen" <nigeldavidallen@gmail.com>
Subject: from Connecting Families New York: incarcerated New
Yorkers need our support.
Charges for phone calls from prisoners in state jails and prisons are
excessively high. In order to promote reintegration of prisoners into
society, and in recognition of the fact that most prisoners and their
families are poor, those calls ought to be free. Connecting Families New
York <https://nyconnect.org/> is an advocacy group that opposes high charges
for calls from prisoners.
Excepts from the <
https://nyconnect.org/> website:
As a coalition we fight to connect families by making phone calls free for
incarcerated people and their loved ones.
We're fighting to end a million-dollar industry. Phone calls are a lifeline
for incarcerated people and their families. We are fighting for legislation
that would end the extraction of wealth from families - disproportionately
Black, Brown, and Indigenous and low income - by making phone calls free
for all incarcerated people in New York.
1 in 3 families go into debt to stay connected to their incarcerated loved
one.
Over 50 percent of families struggle to meet their own household needs
while a loved one is incarcerated. This often means that families are
required to make unfathomable choices about whether to answer the phone to
speak to an incarcerated loved one or buy groceries.
Women bear 87 percent of the costs related to staying in touch with
incarcerated family members.
The stress of limited phone calls and exploitation of families is felt most
acutely by Black and Latinx communities, who are disproportionately
impacted by targeted over-policing, racist sentencing matrices, and mass
criminalization.
1. The high cost of phone calls in prisons generates $1.4 billion a year,
disproportionately driving women and people of color into debt, Rosalie
Chan and Belle Lin, June 30, 2021, Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/high-cost-prison-communications-driving-debt-racial-wealth-gap-2021-6
2. It's all about the incentives: Why a call home from a jail in New York
State can cost 7 times more than the same call from the state's prisons,
Katie Rose Quandt and Andrea Fenster, March 23, 2021, Prison Policy
Institute
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2021/03/23/ny-jail-phones/
Message-ID: <20220309202221.325B4892@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 20:22:21 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: 100 million Samsung phones affected by encryption weakness
by Brandon Vigliarolo
The vulnerability lies in how Samsung implemented a portion of the
Android Trusted Execution Environment, leading to devices as new as
the S21 being vulnerable to initialization vector reuse attacks.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/100-million-samsung-phones-affected-by-encryption-weakness/
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Message-ID: <20220309203151.706AC892@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 20:31:51 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: CONSUMER ALERT: Customer Data from the 2021 T-Mobile Data
Breach Found on the Dark Web
MARCH 03, 2022
ATLANTA, GA - Attorney General Chris Carr is urging T-Mobile customers
in Georgia to protect their personal information after compromised
customer data was found on the dark web following T-Mobile's data
breach announced in August 2021. This breach may affect current,
former and prospective customers. Prospective customers include those
who began the process to enroll with T-Mobile but ultimately did not
obtain service.
"Given the broad scope of T-Mobile's data breach and news that this
compromised data has been found on the dark web, it is imperative
that current, former and prospective customers take the necessary
steps to prevent identity theft or worse," said Carr. "Our first
priority is to protect our state's consumers, and we stand ready to
assist Georgia customers to ensure their personal information is not
stolen. Georgians affected by this breach should monitor their
accounts, including their credit, and take all other necessary
measures to keep their data safe from fraudsters and thieves."
Bill Horne
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