From editor@telecom-digest.org Sun Jun 27 15:49:54 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.3) id i5RJnsX12145; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:49:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:49:54 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200406271949.i5RJnsX12145@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 #307 TELECOM Digest Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:49:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 307 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Internet Phone Service For Every Home Not Far Off (VOIP News) Domain Registration Recommendations (SELLCOM Tech support) Cyberstalking Investigations (LVPI) No Ringtone When I am Called (Desk) DECT - Telephony (Desk) Re: Norvergence Questions (Steven J Sobol) Re: Peer to Peer/Point to Point VOIP (Chip G) Re: Looking For a Security Engineer? (John Levine) Re: Looking For a Security Engineer? (Rob Foehl) Re: Looking For a Security Engineer? (TELECOM Digest Editor) Re: Looking For a Security Engineer? (John R Levine) Web Virus May Be Stealing Financial Data (Monty Solomon) Public Service Announcement: June 27 is HIV Testing Day (Patrick Townson) 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: VOIP News Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:05:35 -0400 Subject: Internet Phone Service For Every Home Not Far Off Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2004/06/27/News/244994.html By Wesley Brown Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK - Local phone service in Arkansas and the rest of the nation is nearing a big evolution, experts say, meaning that terms like WiFi, telephony and FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) will soon become part of our everyday language. However, it is Internet phone service, more commonly known as voice-over-Internet protocol (VOIP) technology, that many feel will have the biggest impact on the landscape of the $100-billion-a-year telecommunications industry over the next few years. "Clearly, VOIP is going to be very important over the next few years," said SBC Arkansas spokesman Ted Wagnon. "It is the most substantial technological advance in 100 years." SBC, which operates about 950,000 access lines in Arkansas, is betting on the new technology. On Tuesday, San-Antonio-based SBC Communications - parent company to SBC Arkansas - announced a $4 billion to $6 billion expansion plan over the next five years to install a fiber optic network offering high-speed Internet access, voice communications and television programming. SBC officials would not discuss details of the expansion plan. Full story at: http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2004/06/27/News/244994.html How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home: http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MI-Telecom/ ------------------------------ From: SELLCOM Tech support Subject: Domain Registration Recommendations Organization: www.sellcom.com Reply-To: support@sellcom.com Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 18:07:12 GMT I have received so much spam from buydomains.com / domaindiscover.com (delivered by their email server) after repeated notice to them that I am now looking for another registrar. It is our policy never to support spammers or spam enablers. After DAYS of reporting spam to them I get this garbage from them wanting me to FAX them copies of any spam so they can build a case. No one is *that* incompetent! Does anyone have any recommendations for dependable domain registrars that have stability, economy pricing etc, basic services, but do not knowingly support spammers? I have quite a few domains registered. Steve at SELLCOM http://www.sellcom.com Discount multihandset cordless phones by Siemens, AT&T, Panasonic, Motorola Vtech 5.8Ghz; TMC ET4000 4line Epic phone, OnHoldPlus, Beamer, Watchguard! Brick wall "non MOV" surge protection. Mini-Splitter log splitter! If you sit at a desk www.ergochair.biz you owe it to yourself. ------------------------------ From: LasVegasPI@aol.com (LVPI) Subject: Cyberstalking Investigations Date: 26 Jun 2004 22:50:34 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com I'd like to introduce our service of identifying cyberstalkers. We can trace and identify the person behind almost any email address or Screen Name. Our sucess rate is over 85% and we can usually return the information in under 24 hours. If we cannot find the name, address and phone number there is no charge. If you are a victim of a cyberstalker, auction fraud or contemplating an online romance please visit our site or email us with your questions. http://emailrevealer.com/ [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You know, if your service of identifying the *true* name, address and telephone number of cyberpests is so good -- 85 percent positive success rate after all -- then why not contract your services to the several experienced sysadmins who search for spam senders and virii writers? Now that spam and virii equal about 80-85 percent of all traffic on the net (we are told), and the net is becoming increasingly useless, I imagine these guys would love to have your services. I know that I, for one, would love to know the true identity of people who send out that crap under my name. PAT] ------------------------------ From: desk.exp@skynet.be (Desk) Subject: No Ringtone When I am Called Date: 26 Jun 2004 02:05:58 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Situation: We have a PABX connected to the public network. This PABX is sending the information to the DECT's in the office. Problem: When we are called by our customers we do not hear a ringtone. The customer is calling us and he hears the phone going over, meaning that he thinks the phone is ringing, but on our site there is no ringtone. This means that we do not know that there is a phone call comming in. This problems happens sometimes. This makes it hard to investigate. What can I do? We changed already the complete installation, but the problem is not solved. ------------------------------ From: desk.exp@skynet.be (Desk) Subject: DECT - Telephony Date: 26 Jun 2004 02:00:20 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Situation: I have a PABX connected to the telephone network. This PABX is sending the incoming calls to my DECT's on my desk. Problem: When somebody calls we most of the time the handsets are ringing, but sometimes when I pick up the handset the conversation is disconnected immediately when I pick up the phone. We changed every component, but the problem is still there. What can be the reason for this disconnect? What do I need to investigate? [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I wonder if your two problems described above, (1) phone 'rings' but you get no audible signal and (2) pick up a phone and the conversation in progress gets disconnected are somehow related. Are the two problems both on the same installation? Did you swap out the components after (1), or (2) or both? PAT] ------------------------------ From: Steven J Sobol Subject: Re: Norvergence Questions Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:08:29 -0500 Black Ninja wrote: > Steven, let me help you out. Folks, if you are lucky enough to live > in the oasis that we call "Apple Valley" (best damn tap water on earth > and the meth aint half bad either), then please contact Mr. Steven > "Never Heard of Norv Doing Cell Phones" Sobol for all of your web > hosting needs. He's the man in the know. This is exactly what happened last time ... all I got was insults. No facts. JustThe.net Internet & New Media Services, http://JustThe.net/ Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / 888.480.4NET (4638) / sjsobol@JustThe.net PGP Key available from your friendly local key server (0xE3AE35ED) Apple Valley, California Nothing scares me anymore. I have three kids. ------------------------------ From: Chip G Subject: Re: Peer to Peer/Point to Point VOIP Organization: Comcast Online Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 01:19:23 GMT Jeroen wrote in message news:telecom23.306.8@telecom-digest.org... > Would anybody know how it is possible to connect a couple of branch > offices with ip phones that will use ip for voice transfer and that > are not connected to the PSTN with a gateway, like an intercom to get > two sites connected. > Regards, > John You could easily do this with the Asterisk PBX and a couple of IP Telephones. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jun 2004 01:17:18 -0000 From: John Levine Subject: Re: Looking For a Security Engineer? Organization: I.E.C.C., Trumansburg NY USA Hey, Pat, this is spam. I got lots of other copies of it. It's hard to imagine someone who thinks that spam is a good idea having a grasp of computer security. In article you write: > Looking for a security engineer? > My website is http://www.loonybin.net/ and email rwf@loonybin.net > Please feel free to contact me. > Robert ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:21:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Rob Foehl Subject: Re: Looking For a Security Engineer? John, This (and the presumably dozens of posts like it) are the result of a joe-job; I replaced my usual page with some more information on the matter. If you're able to retract/cancel/etc any of these posts, I would greatly appreciate it; I have close to 200 bounces from various places. I'll share the rest of the evidence I have, if you'd like; it's not posted publicly (yet). It has, however, been reported to the rr.com abuse department, and I'm hoping they'll be in touch with me ASAP, since their news server was used. -Rob On Fri, 26 Jun 2004, John Levine wrote: > Hey, Pat, this is spam. I got lots of other copies of it. > It's hard to imagine someone who thinks that spam is a good idea > having a grasp of computer security. > In article you write: >> Looking for a security engineer? >> My website is http://www.loonybin.net/ and email rwf@loonybin.net >> Please feel free to contact me. >> Robert ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:10:58 (EDT) From: TELECOM Digest Editor Subject: Re: Looking For a Security Engineer? John, thanks for letting me know. I only got one copy of it or that would have tipped me off. But you are right of course. Silly me, I actually thought maybe I was helping the guy. PAT ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jun 2004 00:24:01 -0400 From: John R Levine Subject: Re: Looking For a Security Engineer? > John, thanks for letting me know. I only got one copy of it or that > would have tipped me off. But you are right of course. Silly me, I > actually thought maybe I was helping the guy. Turns out it's a joe job, he's not sending the spam, some dimwitted kiddie who's mad at him is. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well that just goes to show how little I know about anything. I suppose I should read the net more, and follow the politics and learn who is angry at whom about what, then those things would not get past me here. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:29:35 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Web Virus May Be Stealing Financial Data By ANICK JESDANUN AP Internet Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- A mysterious Internet virus being spread Friday by hundreds and possibly thousands of infected Web sites may be aimed at stealing credit card and other valuable information, security experts warned. The infection appears to take advantage of three separate flaws with Microsoft Corp. products. Microsoft said software updates to fix two of them had been released in April, but the third flaw was newly discovered and had no patch to fix it yet. Experts said the infection, detected by Microsoft on Thursday, was unusually broad but wasn't substantially interfering with Internet traffic. Security experts at Microsoft and elsewhere worked Friday to pin down how the infection spreads across Web sites. It appears to target at least one recent version of Microsoft software for operating Web sites -- called Internet Information Server. The infection makes subtle changes to the Web site so visitors get a piece of code that's designed to retrieve from a Russian Web site software that records a person's keystrokes and can send data back, experts say. Such software "Trojan horses" are routinely used to fish for credit card numbers, bank accounts, passwords and the like. Now that the code is out, other hackers are likely to adapt it to distribute software for spamming and for launching broad Internet attacks against popular Web sites, said Alfred Huger, senior director of engineering at security company Symantec Corp. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=42179860 ------------------------------ From: Patrick Townson Subject: It's Better to Know - National HIV Testing Day is June 27 Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:00:00 [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The following is a public service message presented to the entire internet community by comp.dcom.telecom and other participating news groups by the National Association of People With AIDS ( www.napwa.org ) PAT] National HIV Testing Day Sunday, June 27th is National HIV Testing Day. If you've never been tested, or if you've had unprotected sex or shared a needle since your last test, now is the time to get an HIV test. IT'S BETTER TO KNOW Take advantage of treatment and care options. 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