From editor@telecom-digest.org Tue Jul 13 22:48:15 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.3) id i6E2mFA16618; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:48:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:48:15 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200407140248.i6E2mFA16618@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 #330 TELECOM Digest Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:48:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 330 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Book Review: "Bluetooth Security", Gehrmann/Persson/Smeets (Rob Slade) OneSetPrice Shut Down! (Mark Crispin) Re: Power of the Net in Next Election (Nick Landsberg) Re: Power of the Net in Next Election (Walt Howard) Re: Will Headset From Nortel Office Phone Work With Cell Phone? (Joseph) Re: How Much Does Bill Gates Know About His Software? (David Wilson) Re: How Much Does Bill Gates Know About His Software? (Rob Warnock) Re: How Much Does Bill Gates Know About His Software? (Scott Dorsey) EFFector 17.25: Action Alert - Call for PATRIOT Review, Not (M Solomon) EPIC Alert 11.13 (Monty Solomon) New Free Web Phone ! www.mpq.cc (taylortom100) Onvoy Invites Phone Companies to Jump on the Consumer VoIP (VOIP News) Zoom Into VoIP (VOIP News) Limited Listings (VOIP News) Jeff Pulver Looking For Beta Testers (VOIP News) Vonage(R) Activates 200,000th Line (VOIP News) Is Vonage Failing to Pay Affiliates? (VOIP News) 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. 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rob Slade Organization: Vancouver Institute for Research into User Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:42:42 -0800 Subject: Book Review: "Bluetooth Security", Gehrmann/Persson/Smeets BKBLTSEC.RVW 20040622 "Bluetooth Security", Christian Gehrmann/Joakim Persson/Ben Smeets, 2004, 1-58053-504-6, U$79.00/C$114.95 %A Christian Gehrmann %A Joakim Persson %A Ben Smeets %C 685 Canton St., Norwood, MA 02062 %D 2004 %G 1-58053-504-6 %I Artech House/Horizon %O U$79.00/C$114.95 617-769-9750 artech@artech-house.com %O http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580535046/robsladesinterne http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580535046/robsladesinte-21 %O http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580535046/robsladesin03-20 %P 204 p. %T "Bluetooth Security" Part one presents the basics of Bluetooth security. Chapter one is an introduction to the Bluetooth protocol suite (mostly at the packet level), and also mentions a few security concepts (in a somewhat haphazard manner). The overview of Bluetooth security, in chapter two, could be clearer: some minutia (such as the bit lengths of various components of key generation) obscure the basic concepts, while other specifics (such as the algorithms used) are missing where they could support the text. Pairings and key management rely on a considerable amount of alphabet soup, making frequent references to the list of acronyms a necessity. The detailed descriptions make the explanations difficult, but would make cryptographic analysis possible for the determined reader. The algorithms are laid out in chapter four: although most are based on SAFER+ the greatest emphasis is given to the E(0) stream cipher. Chapter five looks at the encryption used in a broadcast to all members of a piconet. The discussion of security policy and access control, in chapter six, deals mostly with the services required, rather than provided. A lot of time is spent analysing cryptographic strength of the algorithms, in chapter seven, only to come to the conclusion that the greatest problem lies in pairing and tracking. Part two deals with Bluetooth security enhancements, still in development. Chapter eight discusses anonymity, in terms of varying the device address to avoid tracking, and the requirements for such a scenario. Improved key management, using asymmetric encryption or challenge-response type systems, is considered in chapter nine. Chapter ten deliberates on refinement of some standard Bluetooth applications. Bluetooth security is not well known, despite the proliferation of Bluetooth enabled devices. While this book has a number of shortcomings in terms of writing, the material provides an introduction to a number of important considerations. copyright Robert M. Slade, 2004 BKBLTSEC.RVW 20040622 ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade@vcn.bc.ca slade@victoria.tc.ca rslade@sun.soci.niu.edu If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev or http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~rslade ------------------------------ From: Mark Crispin Subject: OneSetPrice Shut Down! Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:13:27 -0700 Organization: Networks & Distributed Computing The Federal Trade Commission has shut down sleazy telemarketer OneSetPrice!! http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/07/nationalevent.htm Too bad their "house counsel" Gerald K. Burton (whose primary job function seemed to be to send threatening letters to people who complained about their illegal calls) isn't on the defendants list. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum. ------------------------------ From: Nick Landsberg Reply-To: SPAMhukolautTRAP@SPAMattTRAP.net Subject: Re: Power of the Net in Next Election Organization: AT&T Worldnet Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:02:59 GMT Editor wrote: > This is *not* an invitation to turn the Digest into a political forum > for the next election ... but ... I am wondering if you feel the net > may well be a significant factor -- perhaps the biggest factor -- in > the re-election or unseating of our resident president now in power at > the November election? For example, there have been statements in > some usenet news groups and other forums claiming Mr. Bush is planning > secretly to re-instate the draft with the situation in Iraq being so > tense (you know, the war that was declared over and won more than a > year ago by the same president.) In response to the 'rumors' of draft > re-instatement; President Bush in his weekly radio address recently > declared it all a 'nasty lie designed to get me out of office' and he > blamed it on 'certain elements on the net who have never liked > American democracy, this Christian nation, etc, ad nauseum ...' Do > any of you think the net is *that powerful* it can actually unseat the > man in office? Just curious. PAT] To answer your questions, pat, more or less in order. - No. I would not like this forum turned into a political forum (other than possibly the politics of stuff such as VOIP) - I do not feel that the net, or more specifically netnews, will be a significant factor. The reasons for this is that I believe that the vast majority of home internet users do not even know that "netnews" and the forums it presents, exist. Most folks acess the web via the major providers (AOL, MSN, Yahoo). I don't think I've ever seen a link on any of these pages to any of the "netnews" forum sites. How the various campaigns will use the net will definitely affect the outcome. But isn't that synonymous about how they use the media in general to affect the outcome? I would guess that they think of the net as yet another media outlet. NPL P.S. - Then again, given a fiasco such as Florida, a few votes either way could influence it. (By the way. Even though I am a Bush supporter, the quoted 537 vote difference is not really 537 votes. If 269 if the ballots have been counted the other way, the results would have been different. Assuming a Bush-Gore were the only choices. I shudder to think of how many recounts would have been ordered if the difference was one or two.) So, if in the next election, a "net" campaign can sway somewhere around 1,000 voters (for round numbers), it may play an impact. I doubt that anyone will be able to measure it, tho. "It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious" - A. Bloch [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: US Department of Homeland Security officials are giving very strong consideration to either *postponing or indefinitly cancelling the presidential election in November* following suggestions made by DeForest Soaries, Jr., chairman of the US Election Assistance Commission. The commission was established after the disputed 2000 presidential vote to help states deal with 'logistical problems' in administering their elections. Soaries, pastor of the 7000 member First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset is a Bush appointee, and after discussions with President Bush has come to the conclusion that al Qaeda terrorists are planning a large scale attack 'intended to disrupt the democratic process.' Pastor Soaries expressed much concern that no one had the legal authority to suspend or cancel a federal presidential election, and he has asked President Bush and Tom Ridge (of Homeland Security) to give him the authority to do so. See this week's NewsWeak magazine and Monday's CNN news http://www.cnn.com/2004/allpolitics/7/11/election.day.delay/index.html for details. PAT] ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Power of the Net in Next Election Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:50:49 MDT From: howard@ece.utah.edu (Walt Howard) > Do any of you think the net is *that powerful* it can actually > unseat the man in office? Well, moveon.org thought it could save Bill Clinton from the consequences of his sleaziness. Didn't work. Howard Dean thought he might wend his way to the Democratic nomination, by making much better use of the net than any of his competitors. Didn't work. The net and its users can help. I think they have derailed the Diebold e-voting machines, which were way too easy to hack. They can distribute news that various candidates would like to suppress. I certainly wish the net had more influence, if not power, because it's more libertarian than the general public and I'm libertarian myself. However, the majority of Americans are not that much influenced by what they see on the net, compared to what they get from elsewhere. Maybe in a dozen years the net authors will have that kind of influence. Not this time, IMHO. >>Walt [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well, I tend toward being libertarian myself and wish they stood even a chance in hell of getting elected, but that is so unrealistic in this country, where the Demopublicans and the Republicrats prevail. I will be interested however in seeing whether Pastor Soaries and his buddy Bush put their heads together and decide 'because of the risk of terrorism' to have the election in November called off, as per yesterday's CNN report and this week's Newsweak Magazine. Both of those news sources seem rather certain there will be some terrorist activities at the conventions later this month and next month. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Joseph Subject: Re: Will Headset From Nortel Office Phone Work With Cell Phone? Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:56:36 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Reply-To: JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com On 12 Jul 2004 11:58:08 -0700, xlate102@yahoo.com (Lester) wrote: > I have an extra Plantronics Polaris headset at work. Looks like it > has a 4 pin connector. > Is there a way I can modify it so I can use it with my Nokia cell > phone? It looks much sturdier than most of the crap headsets they > make specifically for Nokia. It depends on which Nokia model you have. Some of the older ones such as in the 51XX/61XX/71XX lines had a "bar" connector for the headset while the 33XX, 82XX, 83XX had a mini plug with 4 metal connectors i.e. 3 rings with a tip with three rings dividing them as opposed to the normal 2.5 MM plugs which have 3 metal connectors with two rings seaparating them all. There are adapters available so that you can use non-standard plugs with the common 2.5 MM plugs. Do a google search "Nokia to 2.5MM" and you should find several hits. ------------------------------ Subject: Re: How Much Does Bill Gates Know About His Software These Days? From: David Wilson Date: 13 Jul 2004 09:03:53 +1000 Organization: University of Wollongong > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I used to play silly little games like > that when I had my first computer, which was an OSI (Ohio Scientific) > C-1-P which was definitly not in vogue once Tandy came out with their > model 1. My first computer was also the C1P. 24x24 text display - very low res. > Definition: a 'perfect number' is any number > with no factors other than itself and '1'. '1' is perfect, as is > '3' and '7'. What is the next one and the one after that, and maybe > a few more? This sounds more like the definition of a 'prime number' and you are missing 2 and 5 from the list. See http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PerfectNumber.html for the definition of a perfect number (that series starts 6, 28, 496, 8128, ). David Wilson School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You are correct. It was "prime numbers" and not "perfect numbers", although we played both those games in the old days with OSI and Tandy Computers, writing programs to see who was fastest, etc. PAT] ------------------------------ Subject: Re: How Much Does Bill Gates Know About His Software These Days? Organization: Rob Warnock, Consulting Systems Architect From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:26:23 -0500 As an annotation to what Daniel J McDonald wrote, PAT said: +--------------- | Definition: a 'perfect number' is any number with no factors other | than itself and '1'. '1' is perfect, as is '3' and '7'. +--------------- Uh ... I think you really meant "prime" there. A "perfect number" is something very different: a number which is equal to the sum of all of its factors (not including the number itself). The smallest perfect number is 6 (= 1 + 2 + 3), and the next few are 28, 496, 8128, and 33550336. See for more. Rob Warnock 627 26th Avenue San Mateo, CA 94403 (650)572-2607 [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I did mean 'prime' and not 'perfect'; see my correction in the other message in this issue. Perfect numbers tend to alternate between a final digit of '8' or a final digit of '6' but I know the night we did that game the OSI was gasping for breath when it finally said '33550336' PAT] ------------------------------ From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Subject: Re: How Much Does Bill Gates Know About His Software These Days? Date: 13 Jul 2004 09:32:39 -0400 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) In article , wrote: > Pat: I think that a number of 6502 and other 8-bit machines did this, > bought the Basic and put it into Rom. Yes, as did the original IBM PC. You could run the ROM BASIC on it, or you could boot any number of operating systems from floppy, including MS-DOS, CP/M-86, or the UCSD P-System, all of which were available bundled with the machine. --scott "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:25:07 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: EFFector 17.25: Action Alert - Call for PATRIOT Review, Not EFFector Vol. 17, No. 25 July 7, 2004 donna@eff.org A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424 In the 297th Issue of EFFector: * Action Alert - Call for PATRIOT Review, Not Expansion * Federal Court Rules in Favor of Paper Trail Reform in E-Voting * Support Verifiable Voting - Attend "The Computer Ate My Vote" on July 13th! * The Digital Television Liberation Project Starts Its Engines * EFF Announces Ten Most-Wanted Patents * Supreme Court Upholds Free Speech Rights in COPA Decision * Online Privacy "Eviscerated" by First Circuit Decision * Join EFF for Freedom Fest 2004 on August 4th - LinuxWorld Attendees Invited! * MiniLinks (17): The Law v. Email Privacy * Staff Calendar: 07.09.04 - 07.11.04 - Annalee Newitz and Wendy Seltzer speak at HOPE, New York, NY; 07.30.04 - 08.01.04 - Kevin Bankston, Annalee Newitz, Seth Schoen, and Wendy Seltzer speak at Defcon 12, Las Vegas, NV; 08.04.04 - EFF Holds Freedom Fest 2004, San Francisco, CA * Administrivia http://www.eff.org/effector/17/25.php ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:25:26 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: EPIC Alert 11.13 ======================================================================= E P I C A l e r t ======================================================================= Volume 11.13 July 12, 2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Published by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Washington, D.C. http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_11.13.html ====================================================================== Table of Contents ====================================================================== [1] Supreme Court Upholds Block on Web Censorship Law [2] EPIC Calls for Suspension of Registered Traveler Program [3] Federal Court OKs Service Provider E-mail Interception [4] Judge Upholds Country's Strongest State Financial Privacy Law [5] Voter Identification Bills Introduced in Congress [6] News in Brief [7] EPIC Bookstore: Jennifer Government [8] Upcoming Conferences and Events http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_11.13.html ------------------------------ From: taylortom100 Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:57:04 -0000 Subject: New Free Web Phone ! www.mpq.cc Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com Hi to everybody and best greetings from Austria! The New English version of mpq.cc is now launched. In Europe more than 400,000 people are using this software for free phone calls including video and messaging. MPQ Webphone is free of charge and simple to use: download, install, and within a few minutes, reach friends and business partners via the MPQ network. Take a look. Best regards, Thomas ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:46:52 -0400 Subject: Onvoy Invites Phone Companies to Jump on the Consumer VoIP Wagon Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-12-2004/0002208719&EDATE= Minnesota-Based Firm Offers Innovative Way to Adopt 21st Century Telephony MINNEAPOLIS, July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Onvoy, Inc., a Minneapolis-based provider of advanced telecommunications solutions, today announces a new wholesale product available to independent telephone companies: Bandwagon. This innovative product allows consumers to harness the power of broadband Internet connections to make local and long-distance telephone calls, with an easy-to-use and powerful Web interface to control phone service settings. Bandwagon provides a "killer application" to help phone companies increase the penetration of broadband connections throughout rural Minnesota, and allows them to expand their product portfolios with minimal capital or training investments. "Not since Onvoy helped bring long distance choice to Greater Minnesota through Centralized Equal Access has there been a product that will so clearly bolster independent telephone companies," says Paul Hoff, Vice President of Telecom Industry at Onvoy. "Bandwagon offers the latest in voice technology to phone companies of all sizes, and allows them to customize the service in any way they see fit. Pricing, bundling, minutes of use -- that's all decided by the phone companies. We'll even handle the back-office, upgrade and customer interface tasks. All of this in a neutrally-branded product that, to the end- user, looks as though it has been completely provided by the local phone company." Bandwagon maintains essential services such as CALEA and e911, is fully compliant with state and federal regulations, and leverages Onvoy's considerable experience in designing and implementing enterprise-class VoIP solutions. Bandwagon is currently being tested with several companies in Greater Minnesota, and will be available statewide this September. For more information, visit http://www.gobandwagon.com . 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: VOIP News Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:58:52 -0400 Subject: Zoom Into VoIP Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3379211 By Colin C. Haley Anticipating the gradual decline of its dial-up modem business, Zoom Technologies is launching a Voice over Internet Protocol initiative. The firm's first product is a ADSL modem that can be bundled with the firm's new VoIP phone service. The offering is designed for out-of-the-box use and feature pay-as-you-go service as well as flat rate plans. Users can plug one or more phones into the box's ports to make VoIP calls or traditional calls, such as 911 dialing, local or toll-free dialing, or calls when the power fails. For VoIP calls, users hit "#" before the number. The device, which also ties in data features like a router, gateway, firewall, switch and USB port, will sell for about $100 through retailers, catalogs and online. It is compatible with Windows, Macintosh and Linux systems. "VoIP shouldn't be viewed as an add-on, but a basic part of a broadband connection," Terry Manning, Zoom's vice president of marketing, told internetnews.com. "That's why we chose to integrate it into an ADSL box." [Comment: I am unimpressed. What happens if you want more lines than Zoom's box can support? And, how many VoIP service providers will actually want to support this equipment, rather than the equipment they now know and trust? Sometimes too much integration is not a good thing. If anything I'd rather see VoIP adapters built into routers, so that they could be used with whatever broadband connection is available and so that VoIP traffic could still receive priority over other traffic transiting the router.] Full story at: http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3379211 Additional comments at: http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/48386 ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:27:28 -0400 Subject: Limited listings Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.nj.com/business/ledger/index.ssf?/base/business-0/1089705428265020.xml As Mobile, Web Usage Grow, Published Numbers Shrink BY JEFF MAY Star-Ledger Staff Getting in touch by phone has never been easier. Wireless customers can be reached anywhere there's a strong enough signal from a cell tower. People who use Internet-based phones can be rung up anywhere in the world, as long as they have access to a high-speed data connection. There's just one hitch: A caller has to know the right digits to dial, and that could become much trickier in the years to come. The problem is, most listings for wireless and broadband phones are not currently captured in traditional directories. That may not be a big deal now, but as more people rely on those alternative technologies for their primary home phone, the gaps in publicly accessible numbers will grow. We already have the Do Not Call registry, which is designed to foil telemarketers. This is another order of magnitude. Think of it as the "Cannot Call" list. "A published telephone number is an invitation for a total stranger to call you," said Jeff Pulver, a leading advocate of Internet-based phone service. "I don't mind missing phone calls that I don't want." Full story at: http://www.nj.com/business/ledger/index.ssf?/base/business-0/1089705428265020.xml ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:41:09 -0400 Subject: Jeff Pulver Looking For Beta Testers Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com This is from The Jeff Pulver Blog at: http://192.246.69.231/jeff/personal/index.html Looking for IP Communication Visionaries We're looking for some beta testers for our new software client that combines exciting features of instant messaging, presence, VoIP and social networking running on top of the Free World Dialup network. If you have interest and time in the next few weeks we need your help. The pulver.com team has been working for a while on developing this client and we're ready to start bringing in technical visionaries to get an early look at what we've been working on and to provide us feedback. You can help set the direction for the next pulver.com innovation. If you have time to dedicate to join our beta test, please send me an email with your contact details to: jeff.pulver@gmail.com. ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:32:17 -0400 Subject: Vonage(R) Activates 200,000th Line Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-13-2004/0002209431&EDATE= First Broadband Telephony Provider to Reach 200,000 Line Milestone EDISON, N.J., July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Vonage, the leading broadband telephony provider, today announced the activation of 200,000 total lines on its network, doubling its subscriber-base in less than six months since reaching the 100,000 line mark. "Again, Vonage has set the benchmark, proving its value proposition to a marketplace starved for full-featured, cost-effective alternatives to the incumbent local exchange carriers," said Jeffrey A. Citron, chairman and CEO of Vonage Holdings Corporation. "We have consistently doubled our customer- base every six months and expect to exceed year end estimates by a wide margin." Full press release at: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-13-2004/0002209431&EDATE= ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:43:52 -0400 Subject: Is Vonage Failing to Pay Affiliates? Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com A thread on BroadbandReports.com suggests that Vonage may not be paying its affiliates in a timely manner. The thread in question is here: http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,10754742~mode=flat ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of networks such as Compuserve and America On Line, Yahoo Groups, and other forums. 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