From editor@telecom-digest.org Thu Apr 1 03:16:05 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p2/8.11.3) id i318G4c04940; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 03:16:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 03:16:05 -0500 (EST) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200404010816.i318G4c04940@massis.lcs.mit.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: massis.lcs.mit.edu: ptownson set sender to editor@telecom-digest.org using -f To: ptownson Approved: patsnewlist Subject: TELECOM Digest V23 #155 TELECOM Digest Thu, 1 Apr 2004 03:16:00 EST Volume 23 : Issue 155 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson April Foolproof: AT&T Alerts Consumers About Latest Scams (M Solomon) Liberal Talk Radio? No One Will Buy it (Monty Solomon) Verizon Wireless to Cut Bulk, Cost of Bills (Monty Solomon) Search Engine Google to Offer Free E-Mail (Monty Solomon) Another Wrinkle: Permitted Numbers/Parents May Soon Decide (M Solomon) Teen Girl Charged With Posting Nude Photos on Internet (Monty Solomon) Congress Takes Aim Yet Again at P2P Users; Film at 11 (Monty Solomon) Clear Channel Hires Jesse Jackson as Host For Talk Radio (Monty Solomon) Amazon Patents Cookies (Monty Solomon) Pulver: VoIP Lacks Coolness (VOIP News) Re: Fire Coverage From Manchester, UK Continued (Tony P.) More Cell Phone Courtesy - Don't Hold up Other Customers (Carl Moore) Picture Phone Purgatory (Eric Friedebach) Bogus Collect Calls From Longview, Texas? (Carl Moore) Re: AOL Connection Leads to $2,500 Phone Bill (Tom Hudson) Re: AOL Connection Leads to $2,500 Phone Bill (John Levine) Wireless Equivalent to Crossover Network (Daveman750) Re: Excel Communications (John Levine) All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. By using -any name or email address- included herein for -any- reason other than responding to an article herein, you agree to pay a hundred dollars to the recipients of the email. =========================== Addresses herein are not to be added to any mailing list, nor to be sold or given away without explicit written consent. Chain letters, viruses, porn, spam, and miscellaneous junk are definitely unwelcome. We must fight spam for the same reason we fight crime: not because we are naive enough to believe that we will ever stamp it out, but because we do not want the kind of world that results when no one stands against crime. Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:47:16 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: April Foolproof: AT&T Alerts Consumers About the Latest Scams April Foolproof: AT&T Alerts Consumers About the Latest Scams MORRISTOWN, N.J., March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- This April Fool's Day, AT&T wants to warn consumers about some of the latest scams being perpetrated on the unsuspecting public. "Awareness certainly helps consumers from being bilked," said Robert Cruz, consumer affairs director for AT&T. "We try to be vigilant about detecting new fraud and alerting consumers so they won't fall prey to ever more resourceful lawbreakers." Beware of the following schemes: Star-7-2, billing back to you: You receive a call from a stranger posing as a telephone technician or telling you that he has been arrested for driving with a suspended license and is in jail -- or is in a situation that requires your immediate help. "I need to reach my wife and tell her what happened so she can pick up our two kids. Would you dial *72 and then her number?" Star-7-2 is a custom feature for call forwarding. When the customer dials *72 followed by a telephone number, it activates the call forwarding feature causing all your incoming calls to ring at another number. At the end of the other line -- whether calls have been forwarded to a landline, a cell phone or a payphone -- the original caller's partner-in-crime is able to accept all collect and third-party calls, while telling your own legitimate callers that they have the wrong number. You get billed for all calls made because your number is the one from which they are forwarded. This ingenious scam, which even overrides cell phones inability to get collect calls, may go on for several days before you become aware it has occurred. *72, Not for you: Do not accept collect calls from individuals you don't know, regardless of who they claim to be. Also, never activate *72, the call forwarding feature, unless you yourself wish to have calls forwarded elsewhere. Within the sound of my voicemail: Hackers can compromise your voicemail system in order to make fraudulent collect, third party or direct-dial calls. Hackers make use of an out-calling feature on many systems that allows them to make the calls at your expense. It isn't until you receive notification from your telephone company's security group, notices something different about your voicemail greeting, or receive a large bill that you realize you have become a victim. To prevent this: * Always change the default password provided by your voicemail vendor. * Choose a complex voicemail password, of at least six digits, so it's difficult for a hacker to guess. * Don't use obvious passwords such as an address, birth date or phone number. * Change your voicemail password often. * Check your announcement regularly to ensure the greeting is indeed yours. (Owners of small businesses should consider disabling the auto-attendant, call-forwarding and out-paging capabilities of voicemail (if these features are not used), because those features also can be hacked. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=40974362 [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I have heard of cases where some hacker got illicit control of a voicemail box or system and changed the outgoing greeting on one or more boxes to say something like this: "Operator ... collect calls to this number will be accepted." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:41:31 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Liberal Talk Radio? No One Will Buy It By Jay Severin, 3/30/2004 AFTER YEARS of contemptuously dismissing talk radio as a vast, embarrassing wasteland of doltish, bigoted, old, angry, overweight, religious white men named Chuck, liberals suddenly want a piece of the action. Coming soon to a radio near you, the Liberal Talk Network. Well, my "progressive" pals, prepare to confront a shocking fact: Talk radio is a business. As in must make a profit. Success requires capturing a vast audience, and more. As a business enterprise, it is virtually meaningless whether your listeners agree with you politically. Your audience must attract major advertising dollars. That's right -- we're not in NPR land anymore, Toto. Al Franken, your latest great white hope, declared your mission: "We're going to put it to Bush." You're off by one crucial letter: To win this game, you don't have to beat Bush, you have to beat Rush. He and his cohort are far more formidable than you imagine. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/03/30/liberal_talk_radio_no_one_will_buy_it/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:56:00 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Verizon Wireless to Cut Bulk, Cost of Bills By Peter Howe, Globe Staff, 3/31/2004 Verizon Wireless is trying to cut costs by sending its 37.5 million customers streamlined bills that no longer provide information on which numbers have been called and for how long. For a family with two phones and 800 minutes of calling time, a Verizon Wireless spokeswoman said the new streamlined bill would be two pages instead of the current 23. http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2004/03/31/verizon_wireless_to_cut_bulk_cost_of_bills/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:59:44 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Search Engine Google to Offer Free E-Mail By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writer MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- Search engine Google Inc. announced Wednesday it would launch a free, Web-based e-mail service to compete against popular services from rivals Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Google's service, called "Gmail," will include a built-in search function that will let people search every e-mail they've ever sent or received. According to company executives, users will be able to type in keywords to sort e-mails or find old missives. And it will come with 1 gigabyte of free storage _ more than 100 times what some popular rivals offer and enough to hold 500,000 pages of e-mail. Officials at Yahoo and Microsoft's Hotmail division declined to comment on Google's entry into a new category. But analysts said that Google _ whose technology is behind nearly four out of every five Web searches _ could shake up the free e-mail market. Yahoo dominates the niche, with 52.6 million unique users per month in the United States, according to a February survey by online research firm comScore Media Metrix. Microsoft's Hotmail service is next, with 45.4 million users. AOL has 40.2 million paying users. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=40981937 [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: So what is to prevent me from typing in your name and seeing all your old archived email? PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:58:02 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Another Wrinkle: Permitted Numbers / Parents May Soon Decide By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff, 3/28/2004 WOBURN -- Rather than yell at their children for using too many wireless minutes, and threaten to shut off the phones, parents may soon be able to go online and control not only how much the kids use the phones -- but when and even whom they can call. Boston Communications Group Inc. , a company that provides back-office order-processing systems for prepaid wireless plans to big US wireless carriers, rolled out a new software package this month called "Mobile Guardian." The program would give parents or corporate finance managers a package of tools to regulate phone use. By going to a website, people using the system could register multiple phone numbers and put weekly or monthly limits on the minutes each one can be used. When a subscriber got within 10 or 20 minutes of using up the allotment, he or she could be alerted with an e-mail message, a short advisory to the phone, a voice mail alert, or all three. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/03/28/another_wrinkle_permitted_numbers/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 00:13:21 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Teen Girl Charged With Posting Nude Photos on Internet PITTSBURGH (AP) - A 15-year-old girl has been arrested for taking nude photographs of her self and posting them on the Internet, police said. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2004-03-29-child-self-porn_x.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 00:24:17 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Congress Takes Aim Yet Again at P2P Users, Film at 11 http://politechbot.com/pipermail/politech/2004-March/000571.html Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:47:02 -0600 From: Declan McCullagh Subject: [Politech] Congress takes aim yet again at P2P users, film at 11 [ip] Copy of PDEA: http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/pdf/ne/2004/pdea2004.pdf http://news.com.com/2100-1028-5182898.html House panel approves copyright bill March 31, 2004, 4:55 PM PST By Declan McCullagh A House of Representatives panel has approved a sweeping new copyright bill that would boost penalties for peer-to-peer piracy and increase federal police powers against Internet copyright infringement. The House Judiciary intellectual property subcommittee voted for the "Piracy Deterrence and Education Act" (PDEA) late Wednesday, overruling objections from a minority of members that it would unreasonably expand the FBI's powers to demand private information from Internet service providers. The PDEA -- the result of intense lobbying from large copyright holders over the past six months -- has emerged as a kind of grab-bag that combines other proposals unsuccessfully advanced in the past. One section that first surfaced last year punishes an Internet user who makes available $1,000 in copyrighted materials with prison terms of up to three years and fines of up to $250,000. If the PDEA became law, prosecutors would not have to prove that $1,000 in copyrighted materials were downloaded -- they would need only to show that those files had been publicly accessible in a shared folder. One part of the PDEA that did not appear in earlier bills would require the FBI to "facilitate the sharing" of information among Internet providers, copyright holders and police. "I am sure (that its sponsor) does not mean to expand the powers of the FBI," Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said during the subcommittee hearing. "The concern I have is that this is very ambiguous. The language itself could lead an aggressive FBI to a different conclusion." Lofgren's attempt to amend the PDEA failed by a 4-14 vote. [...remainder snipped...] Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 00:42:59 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Clear Channel Hires Jesse Jackson as Host For Talk Radio Show From Wall Street Journal, March 31, 2004 By Sarah McBride Clear Channel Communications Inc., the radio company that frequently comes under fire for its large donations to Republican politicians and allegedly conservative bent in programming, is taking a high-profile step in the other direction. The company has signed up former Democratic presidential candidate the Rev. Jesse Jackson as a host for a Sunday-morning talk-radio show based in Chicago, the nation's third-biggest radio market after New York and Los Angeles. It also will run in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Norfolk, Va. In addition, Clear Channel plans to test programming from a new liberal radio network, Air America, in the Portland, Ore., market. http://www.freepress.net/news/article.php?id=2950 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 00:47:48 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Amazon Patents Cookies United States Patent 6,714,926 Benson March 30, 2004 Use of browser cookies to store structured data Abstract A web site system implements a process for storing selected data structures within browser cookies. The data structures may contain a variety of different types of data elements, including N-bit integers and other non-character elements. A version tracking scheme provides forward and backward compatibility between client and server software. The process is implemented without the need for any browser extensions, and without the need for users to download any special code to their computers. Inventors: Benson; Eric A. (Seattle, WA) Assignee: Amazon.com, Inc. (Seattle, WA) Appl. No.: 494712 Filed: January 31, 2000 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,714,926.WKU.&OS=PN/6,714,926&RS=PN/6,714,926 ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:51:36 -0500 Subject: Pulver: VoIP lacks coolness Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0330pulver.html Pulver: VoIP lacks coolness By Tim Greene Network World Fusion, 03/30/04 Delegates to the VON 2004 conference were told that Apple's Steve Jobs needs to step in to boost the popularity of voice over IP. The trouble with VoIP is that nobody knows how to make it wildly popular a la Apple's iPod, says Jeff Pulver, who runs the VON shows. "It's really challenging. We don't want to just replicate what we have [with traditional voice phones]," Pulver said. "I'd love to see Apple join absolutely to make it cool." Full story at: http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0330pulver.html ------------------------------ From: Tony P. Subject: Re: Fire Coverage From Manchester, UK Continued Organization: ATCC Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:36:51 GMT In article , ptownson@telecom- digest.org says: > Here are some news reports from the UK newspapers for Tuesday, March 30 > and Wednesday, March 31 regards the telephone exchange fire in > Manchester, UK on Monday. > PAT > BT fire disrupts emergency services > By Tim Richardson > Posted: 29/03/2004 at 13:41 GMT > A major cable fire in Manchester has brought chaos to the region as > emergency services struggle to cope with a communication blackout. > According to the BBC, emergency services have been stretched after > the fire damaged communication links. > Greater Manchester Ambulance Service said it was struggling after > the fire damaged its radio network while some 999 services have > also been hit. > And because so many phone lines have been wiped out, there are > concerns that people will be unable to access 999 services in the > event of an emergency. > At this early stage it's impossible to gauge the full extent of the > incident that has wiped out more than 130,000 telephone lines. > The Register has received a number of reports from readers about > companies hit by the fire and unable to access their systems. From > banks to airlines, it seems the fire has brought many companies to > their knees. > Mobile phone operator Vodafone said that some of its network had > been hit and that it's working with BT to reroute calls elsewhere. > While a statement on utility giant Powergen's website reads: "We're > sorry but the Powergen website is currently unavailable. This is > due to a major telecommunications failure in the North of England. > We're working hard to restore the service as soon as possible. Our > apologies again for any inconvenience caused." So in essence this cuts off subscribers, radio networks, emergency services and wireless services. Looks like amateur radio ops in that area of the U.K. are going to be plenty busy. The thing people don't realize is the critical nature of trunk circuits. Without those switches of any kind are simply remote islands with no connectivity to other islands. So wireless can still be used so long as they're on the same cell, but with the advent of PCS and smaller cells that limits their use. A few years ago then Bell Atlantic accidentally cut off E-911 trunks near the answering point. That was an ugly mess that got resolved within a few hours. But imagine if you will that most of the trunk circuits are carried underground and are usually well marked, particularly those near rail systems, along highways, etc. And it's impossible to protect. Got to wonder what caused the fire. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: According to the Manchester Fire Brigade, the fire was probably due to electrical sparks. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:01:24 EST From: Carl Moore Subject: More Cell Phone Courtesy - Don't Hold up Other Customers For as long as it's good, there is this web reference: http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2004/03/31hanginguponcell.html Some businesses have had to ask customers not to use cell phones when doing business, say, at a supermarket checkout or a sandwich shop. There have apparently been cases where a person at the head of a line at a sandwich shop would be taking orders over his/her cell phone, thus holding up other customers. There is a list provided of courtesies to be mindful of; they include the now-familiar one about churches, libraries, etc., and the relatively-recent one about cell phones with cameras (don't take pictures which you yourself would not want to appear in). To ward off arguments (say, this "being a free country", which someone is quoted as saying in the above reference), I suggest we keep looking to the generic courtesies. For example, in a non-phone case, I have found it annoying during a music rehearsal when I am playing as part of such rehearsal and there is talking going on where I can hear it. ------------------------------ From: friedebach@yahoo.com (Eric Friedebach) Subject: Picture Phone Purgatory Date: 31 Mar 2004 12:53:02 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Alicia Ferrari, 03.31.04, Forbes.com NEW YORK - When new megapixel and megapixel-plus camera phones from many vendors start emerging in the U.S. market in the coming months, older phones with a fraction of the resolution are bound to lose their luster. But for now, the top-selling Nokia 3650, launched in the United States in March 2003, remains top of the line. Practically every mobile phone manufacturer under the sun has plans to break the megapixel barrier, among them LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson -- the joint venture of Sony and Ericsson -- and Kyocera . http://www.forbes.com/technology/2004/03/31/cx_af_ii_0331tentech.html Eric Friedebach /Tonight's Skywarn training cancelled due to... weather?/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:33:26 EST From: Carl Moore Subject: Bogus Collect Calls From Longview, Texas? I have been sent the following web reference: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04020/263322.stm which was still valid just before I wrote the message you are reading. The sender, as well as a woman from Verona, PA (in the website reference, which turns out to be the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), complains of being charged for a collect call from Longview, Texas which he/she is sure they never accepted. The sender sent me a telephone number on the 903-381 prefix in Longview, and I have heard that calling that number connects to a computer modem. The sender had written to me on the basis of finding a September 2002 message where I complain of making a legitimate call (AT&T calling card) from Connecticut to Delaware, but the bill, in referring to "PAYPHONE" (okay so far), said it was in Texas at 903-381-6832 (same prefix, but not same last four digits sent to me by the above-mentioned sender), and I *today* called that number (the one from MY bill) and I also got a computer modem. In my case, I was on the side of a road between Bridgeport and New Haven, Connecticut, and if I change the first digit of the area code to a 2, I get a prefix which is in Bridgeport (sorry I'd have to go back to Connecticut to try to pinpoint where I was -- it was on right side of westbound US 1 at some convenience store). ------------------------------ From: Tom Hudson Subject: Re: AOL Connection Leads to $2,500 Phone Bill Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:27:24 -0600 I experienced this problem a few years ago when I set up my wife's prodigy account on a new computer. I wasn't paying enough attention and I allowed the prodigy setup to pick a phone number for Leavenworth KS, just 15 minutes away across the state line. Oddly, the call to Leavenworth didn't require dialing a "1" even though it was long distance through SWB at 20 cents a minute. Our local company was sprint. After not looking at the bill for a couple of months (and leaving the connection up all the time), we got slammed with $800 of charges and the phone company refused to negotiate. I also had an equally frustrating experience with Compuserve a few years ago when my account was magically switched from a flat rate plan to a per minute plan. They insisted that I switched the plan and that I was liable for the charges. Despite disputing the credit card for months on end, neither myself nor American Express could make any headway with those people. "No one at Compuserve, even the president himself, has the authority to amend the bill" I was repeatedly told. This was when Compuserve was still owned by HR Block. Tom Hudson ------------------------------ Date: 1 Apr 2004 04:32:34 -0000 From: John Levine Subject: Re: AOL Connection Leads to $2,500 Phone Bill Organization: I.E.C.C., Trumansburg NY USA > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: John, does this story sort of have the > marks of an urban legend? Yes, there was a newspaper account of it, > and newspapers do not usually write fiction (the New York Times and > the Boston Globe being two exceptions) but has anyone ever identified > the person who got this humongous telephone bill or audited how the > telco heard the sad story then refused to make an adjustment, etc? The AP story identifies the guy and his daughter by name, and says Qwest agreed to settle the bill for $375. I would think that was generous except that he could have signed up for flat rate long distance for $25 and the calls would have cost $0 above that. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-03-30-aol-phone-bill_x.htm John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 330 5711 johnl@iecc.com Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner http://iecc.com/johnl Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail ------------------------------ From: dsimcha@yahoo.com (Daveman750) Subject: Wireless Equivalent to Crossover Network Date: 31 Mar 2004 20:11:49 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Is there any cheap way to get a wireless equivalent to a simple crossover network for sharing a dialup connection and files between only two computers? Thank you. ------------------------------ Date: 1 Apr 2004 04:18:28 -0000 From: John Levine Subject: Re: Excel Communications Organization: I.E.C.C., Trumansburg NY USA > I attended a presentation by Excel Communications last night. They > appear to sell telecom services (local, long-distance, internet, > cell). The presentation was for prospective sales people, but it had > all the hallmarks of a pyramid scheme. Sign up for $400, sign up more > sellers and get a substantial "incentive", The people you sign up sign > up more and you get a different kickback, etc. It is a pyramid scheme, but since they sell an actual product, it's a legal multi-level-marketing pyramid scheme. Every time someone's asked me to look at Excel, I've come to the same conclusion: it's long distance just like everyone else's long distance, but at a rather high price since they have to pay that mountain of MLM commission overhead. If you think you'd enjoy selling long distance service to your friends and relatives for twice what they could get it for elsewhere, I suppose it's a reasonable business. John R. 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