From editor@telecom-digest.org Tue Sep 14 22:02:07 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.6) id i8F227M26100; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:02:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:02:07 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200409150202.i8F227M26100@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 #429 TELECOM Digest Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:02:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 429 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Bluetooth Enabled Motorcycle Helmet From Motorola & Momodesign (Solomon) Best Phone to Use For Radio Telephone Interviews? (JayKay) Re: "Broadcast Flag", was Re: My New DVR From Cable One (J Kelly) Re: Weir & Partners Launches Norvergence Litigation (Scott Dorsey) Web Site Killings Raise Dilemmas for Media (Lisa Minter) Microsoft Issues Patch; E-Mail ID Plan Rejected (Lisa Minter) On Fed Payroll, Hackers Seek to Save America (Lisa Minter) A Proposal of Interest (TELECOM Digest Editor) 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. 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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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:03:34 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Bluetooth Enabled Motorcycle Helmet From Motorola and MOMODESIGN Talk'n'Ride With the First Bluetooth(R) Enabled Motorcycle Helmet From Motorola and MOMODESIGN Motorola / MOMODESIGN Bluetooth(R) Enabled Motorcycle Helmet Extends Wireless Communications to Highly Mobile Individuals on the Motorcycle MUNICH, Germany, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola (NYSE:MOT) and MOMODESIGN today announced their first Bluetooth enabled motorcycle helmet that will make it possible for motorcycle riders to scoot around town and stay connected. Built on the award-winning design of Motorola's popular HS810, the wireless helmet headset is the latest addition to Motorola's leading portfolio of stylish and innovative Bluetooth products. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=43684619 [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I don't know for sure, but isn't it rather dangerous for a person riding a motorcycle to try and be connected to the internet at the same time? I know I would not feel good doing it, even if I did know how to ride a motorcycle. PAT] ------------------------------ From: jkarevoll@yahoo.com (JayKay) Subject: Best Phone to Use For Radio Telephone Interviews? Date: 14 Sep 2004 13:58:15 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com I get called fairly often by radio stations for commentary. My current phone, AT&T 2-line 962, apparently doesn't cut it and I often find myself calling the studios back from the fax phone (a little better) or (after hooking it up) from a 25-year old rotary phone for call clarity (even better). But I'd like to get a new office phone that would be OK for these talk/news people. Any suggestions? ------------------------------ From: J Kelly Subject: Re: "Broadcast Flag", was Re: My New DVR From Cable One Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:17:29 -0500 Organization: http://newsguy.com Reply-To: jkelly@newsguy.com On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:35:53 -0000, pv+usenet@pobox.com (Paul Vader) wrote: > Danny Burstein writes: >> Nope. He was just given given advance warning. New recording equipment >> is supposed to recognize a "do not record" flag that gets sent >> over-the-air along with the signal. Periodically a couple of the > Except that it isn't sent over the air, and the flag is part of their > licensing agreement with macrovision. Cable one was just passing along > FUD. Not FUD. The flag is sent over the air, and it has nothing to do with Macrovision. Unfortunately, Hollywood pulled a hold-up. It threatened to derail the DTV transition by withholding "high-value content" from over-the-air DTV, unless the FCC imposed "content protection" (aka DRM) on all future televisions and related devices. The idea was that content owners would implant a "broadcast flag" into DTV programming. When devices detect the flag, they have to "protect" (i.e., lock up in DRM jail) the programming. Sadly, the FCC bought it. Thanks to an FCC ruling, as of July 2005, it will be illegal to manufacture or import DTV tuners unless they include DRM technologies mandated by the FCC. See more at: http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/HDTV/ ------------------------------ From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Subject: Re: Weir & Partners Launches Norvergence Litigation Date: 14 Sep 2004 15:55:16 -0400 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) David O. Rodriguez wrote: > The firm of Weir & Partners LLP announced this morning that it has > obtained committed fee payments exceeding its required minimum of > $1,200,000.00 for the http://www.norvergencelitigation.com Norvergence > Litigation and wants to thank the many Norvergence customers who > signed up as clients. What is the point? The money is gone. It's not there. You can't get juice out of a stone. Maybe it's in some offshore bank somewhere, but if you can't find it, litigation isn't very useful. --scott "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I think one of their efforts is going to be to get the court to void the 'leases' the business people had to sign in order to get the worthless Matrix boxes installed; to help get these people out of the onerous alleged 'debts' owed to the banks and leasing companies; and to demonstrate where possible any acts of collusion between Norvergence and those same leasing companies and banks, etc. And, they may well petition the court to allow the same clients to have a representative on the creditor's committee in the hopes of recovering some small portion of the money (back) they paid, although hopes of recovering any of the money are slim at best. But, it is better to be out a litle money paid than be on the hook for several more years of monthly payments. I think the Weir Partners attornies hope to be able to put the screws on the leasing companies and banks to defend their positions in purchasing that paper from Norvergence to begin with. Norvergence is not the first example of that sort of thing: The encyclopedia door-to-door sales people in the 1960's wound up getting sued and going bankrupt when the people who were pressured into buying the worthless sets of encyclopedias (thousands of them) with twenty year contracts to pay for worthless 'updates' found out they had been tricked also. Same kind of high pressure sales tactics, etc: you will be allowed to get this set of books for free if you agree to pay for annual updates for twenty years; better agree now, we won't be back in town, you will lose your chances, etc. The various 'loan companies' which had 'loaned' the money to the debtors (by in fact actually forwarding the money to the encyclopedia company) all screamed and squalled that they were innocent parties, just 'holders in due course' who wanted their money back. The court did not see it that way; it felt the loan companies could better absorb the losses than the little people who were tricked into buying the crappy books on contract. And I sort of think something like that may happen in this case: the court will rule that unsophisticted small business people were tricked by this, and instruct the banks and leasing companies to eat the losses themselves, or if they wish, file claims in bankruptcy court against Norvergence. And with this thought in mind, that the attornies may well try to turn the screws on the leasing companies and the banks (since, as you point out it would be fruitless to try and get money out of Norvergence), may God be merciful on those collection agencies who try to twist debtor's arms on this, because the court sure won't be. And is it indeed, a futile thing to try and get money out of the Norvergence principals? Maybe not ... more than once, people have been about to get sued (as Norvergence was in its latter days), somehow all the money disappeared, then they got sued (as happened with Norvergence due to the creditor's committee (of telephone companies) and when the creditor's committee then slapped service on every bank in the world looking to seize the remaining assets (it is like a 'discovery of assets' motion) and couldn't find any assets, the creditor's committee then *returned to court* with a new request: "In an effort to avoid the judgment of the court, defendant (in this case the encyclopedia company) secreted their assets on its persons where we could not find the money." If that is what happened in this case, that Solzano illegally converted some of the money for himself, then indeed, God will need to have mercy on Solzano. This case is going to go on for a long, long time (why do you think Weir Partners asked for such a large retainer?) so while you are waiting for a resolution, in the meantime, you should *freeze your own accounts payable to Norvergence*. Don't just give up your money to a collection agency. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Lisa Minter Subject: Web Site Killings Raise Dilemmas for Media Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:47:28 EDT DUBAI (Reuters) - A terrified-looking man, rocking back and forth in his chair with his hands tied behind his back, appeals to the United States to leave Iraq and spare him death. Then a hand with a knife appears to slice off his head. "If we don't (leave Iraq), everyone is gonna be killed in this way ... I have been offered for exchange for prisoners here in Iraq," said the man, who identified himself as Benjamin Vanderford, 22. One news organization after another filed the story, only to find out later from the mother of the "computer savvy" man that it was a hoax. It showed how almost anyone can use the Internet to manipulate and frighten people and added to growing uncertainty over the credibility of Web sites or their use by Islamist groups as a terror platform. The video of this apparently staged killing used the graphic format and same logo seen in previous tapes of beheadings released by al Qaeda-linked militant groups. Vanderford, an American from San Francisco, said he staged the beheading using fake blood and began distributing the videotape on the Internet months ago. "It was part of a stunt, but no one noticed up until now," he said. Web sites which appear to be regularly used by Islamist militants often post videos of kidnappers with foreign hostages at gunpoint. Statements by shadowy groups pop up. Style and format is imitated from site to site and news organizations face the hard choice of authenticating them or at least judging what credibility if any to give them. The most problematic to authenticate are the grisly beheadings of hostages, such as the execution last month of 12 Nepalese workers kidnapped in Iraq. The perpetrators proudly displayed on an Islamist Web site a video accompanied with photos of their victims taken from all angles, splattered with blood, with bullet wounds in the head and back. One gunman held the severed head of one hostage aloft. MEDIA FRENZY Some observers accuse the media of unwillingly feeding this frenzy of brutal terror by reporting their gruesome acts. "Nobody needs to watch this. This is not human. By reporting these beheadings the media are giving kidnappers a chance to show their terror movies, but if they boycott such footage they would deny them this opportunity," Saudi Internet expert Fares bin Hazem told Reuters. Some analysts say Web sites, Arab satellite television channels and even news agencies have become tools playing into the hands of Islamists by allowing them to instill fear and set the news agenda with their threats and ultimatums. "Media all over the world hang on the kidnappers' every word, amplifying their message and handing them a victory far greater than the direct impact of their brutal acts," said Richard Eisendorf, president of International Media, Development, Peacebuilding Consulting in Washington. "Whether their objectives of turning people and governments against their involvement in Iraq are furthered or not through this attention, the terrorists feel that they have achieved a victory. Thus, the coverage reinforces the continued use of their murderous tactics," he wrote in Lebanon's Daily Star. Some believe media organizations need to draw up a new code of ethics to counter the goals of Islamist groups and deny them the publicity to threaten and terrorize. "Feeding a tape based on the brutal sacrifice of a human being is beyond irresponsible. It abets the murders. It clearly leads to more kidnappings and brutal deaths," Eisendorf added. "If since the start of the kidnapping campaign in Iraq the media banned airing any of the captor's videos and statements they would have been discouraged and given up. But with this media mobilization they see the strong reactions and they think that they are succeeding," Hazem added. PUBLIC BRUTALITY A French journalist taken hostage earlier this year in Iraq said his kidnappers were perplexed when they failed to get publicity for their action. "They kept asking me why I wasn't (appearing) on television," he was quoted as saying. While news organizations depend on witness accounts, reporters in the field and their own sources for news, analysts agree the Internet, which does not filter information, poses new challenges for media organizations to use their judgment. "The Internet has opened up the media to new sources of news, including terrorists," Professor William Dutton, Director of Oxford Internet Institute, said. "It is good news and bad news. I don't see a practical way of blocking that coverage." Some experts argue that censorship would breach the democratic values of journalism and that accounts and photographs of brutality of war were centuries-old. "They (Islamists) know that the Western media cannot censor news so they are using these values of journalism against us. They are intelligently using the media in ways we have not anticipated to serve their interests," Dutton said. Like many, Dutton believes that such brutal publicity would backfire. "They may get coverage but they are shooting themselves in the foot. People see their brutal means and the evil of what is being done. It may capture public attention but it will backfire on them because it creates public revulsion," he said. *** FAIR USE NOTICE. 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For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ------------------------------ From: Lisa Minter Subject: Microsoft Issues Patch; E-Mail ID Plan Rejected Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:51:05 EDT Separately, the world's largest software maker was dealt a setback on Tuesday after the Internet Engineering Task Force decided not to adopt Microsoft's e-mail sender ID standard that would make it easier for Internet providers to block unwanted junk e-mail. Microsoft, which now releases security bulletins and updates on a monthly cycle, said that its latest software flaw stems from the way its software processes images in the JPEG image format. Users opening a file or viewing a specific image could be at risk if a hacker exploits the flaw and tries to gain access to a personal computer. "The vulnerability could only be exploited by an attacker who persuaded a user to open a specially crafted file or to view a directory that contains the specially crafted image," Microsoft said in a statement, "There is no way for an attacker to force a user to open a malicious file." Microsoft launched a campaign in early 2002 to boost the security and reliability of its software, and has released a major update to Windows XP next month aimed at improving the security of the company's flagship operating system. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft urged users to download and install the patch to prevent any risk that the vulnerability may be exploited. The patch can be found at www.microsoft.com/security. The patch affects Microsoft's Windows XP, Office 2003, Project, Visio, Visual Studio, and other programs that handle JPEG images. "The one thing that makes this a bit different is that it affects so many applications," said Craig Schmugar, a virus research manager at McAfee Inc. The large number of Microsoft programs affected by the vulnerability could make it a tempting target for malicious code writers, Schmugar said. "Home users should definitely roll this (patch) out as soon as possible," Schmugar said. Microsoft also released another patch on Tuesday rated "important," affecting software used to convert WordPerfect files within Microsoft Office. ANTI-SPAM IDEA NIXED Microsoft combined its Caller ID for e-mail and Pobox.com co-founder Meng Wong's Sender Policy Framework last month for submission to the standards-setting Internet Engineering Task Force. But a working group within the task force led by Andrew Newton raised issues with Microsoft's patent claims on the technology behind its proposal, saying that license restrictions could make the standard difficult to adopt widely, according a memo posted online by the standards group. E-mail authentication proposals have been floating around since at least 1998, but experts have given the concept more attention over the past year as spam has exploded to account for up to 83 percent of all Internet traffic. Microsoft and Wong's proposals were aimed at making it difficult for spammers and scam artists to appropriate the e-mail addresses of others in order to slip through content filters, a tactic known as "spoofing." But the IETF, citing potential issues of compatibility between Microsoft's patent-protected technology and freely licensed protocols, rejected Microsoft's proposals. *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This Internet discussion group is making it available without profit to group members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of literary, educational, political, and economic issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. I believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner, in this instance Reuters News and Yahoo News. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ------------------------------ From: Lisa Minter Subject: On Fed Payroll, Hackers Seek to Save America Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:59:28 EDT IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (Reuters) - Jason Larsen types in a few lines of computer code to hack into the controls of a nearby chemical plant. Then he finds an online video camera inside and confirms that he has pumped up a pressure value. "It's the challenge. It's you finding the flaws," he said when asked about his motivation. "It's you against the defenders. It comes from a deep-seeded need to find out how things work." Larsen, 31, who wears his hair long and has braces on his teeth, is a computer hacker with a twist. His goal is not to wreak havoc, but to boost security for America's pipelines, railroads, utilities and other infrastructure, part of a project backed by the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Idaho lab last month launched a new cyber security center where expert hackers such as Larsen test computing vulnerabilities. Spread across 890 square miles in a remote area of eastern Idaho, INEEL gives experts access to an entire isolated infrastructure such as the one Larsen hacked into. "I don't think people have an understanding of what could be the impact of cyber attacks," Paul Kearns, director of INEEL, told Reuters. "They don't understand the threat." In recent months, U.S. security officials have warned that the nation is not prepared against cyber terrorism. "I am confident that there is no system connected to the Internet, either by modem or fixed connection, that can't be hacked into," said Laurin Dodd, who oversees INEEL's national security programs. He added that only a computing system totally isolated from the outside, such as that used by the Central Intelligence Agency would be immune to hacking. Another problem is that many once-isolated systems used to run railroads, pipelines and utilities are now also accessible via the Internet and thus susceptible to sabotage. "More and more of these things are being connected to the Internet, so they can be monitored at corporate headquarters," said Dodd, INEEL's associate lab director. "It is generally accepted that the August blackout last year could have been caused by that kind of activity." "Most people think risk in this area is not going to result in thousands of deaths," he continued. "If somebody could wreak havoc in the financial system by getting into computers and as a result people lost confidence in the financial system, that could be pretty consequential." Added lab director Kearns: "That's what al Qaeda is all about." PUZZLING OUT THE CODE Steve Schaeffer in INEEL's cyber security lab was recently asked to decode a General Electric designed system. "My test was to subvert that guy's system in some manner," he said. "It only took about two months before we had enough information to affect the protocol to affect operations." "If they can dial into the system, guess what, so can I." Lab officials emphasize that such hacking occurs within INEEL's own facilities rather than at real-life entities outside. The Swiss engineering group ABB (ABB.ST) recently signed an agreement to become INEEL's first cybersecurity customer to test their actual vulnerabilities. INEEL officials tell of a recent visit by an Idaho utility executive who declared his system had no problems. By the end of their demonstration, the shaken executive was asking for a comprehensive review of his firm. In another incident, INEEL's Larsen entered a U.S. agency in Washington D.C. and hacked into its computer system with a simple hand-held computing device, much to the surprise of officials there, a lab official said. Larsen declined to discuss the episode. When it comes to Larsen's background, there is a fair amount that he and his superiors prefer not to discuss. To gain the skills he has, one must have experience in the nebulous world of hacking. "This is one of the few places where it is legal to give people those kind of challenges," said Robert Hoffman, head of INEEL cyber security who hired Larsen. He said he was impressed that Larsen had written his first computer code at age 13. "I learned my hacking back when it was a cool thing," said Larsen as he spoke of computing in the pre-Internet days. He wore a black T shirt with the inscription "Stop laughing, computers are cool now." INEEL officials say the lab would not hire anyone who had committed criminal acts and added they must obtain security clearances. "How do you know that your wife is not going to clean our your bank account?" Schaeffer said. "You just trust people and you do background checks." The Idaho cyber security effort is part of the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to boost defenses against possible attacks of all kinds. INEEL seeks a delicate balance between encouraging key parts of the U.S. economy to boost their cyber security without inspiring any nefarious acts. "What you don't want to do is increase the threat by advertising what you can do. I think dirty bombs is one example," INEEL's national security head Dodd said. *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This Internet discussion group is making it available without profit to group members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of literary, educational, political, and economic issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. I believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ------------------------------ From: TELECOM Digest Editor Subject: A Proposal of Some Interest Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:00:00 EDT You may have noticed recently a number of articles submitted to the Digest by Lisa Minter, who tends to scour the net daily, especially Yahoo, looking for news items of interest. I've been printing the interesting ones, but taking care to include the *Fair Use Notice* with each of them. In the past I have never been able to afford on my own to subscribe to any news services for the Digest, and depend on correspondents like Monty Solomon, Jack Decker and others for press releases of interest. But I have been approached repeatedly by Google to begin using their 'ad-sense' program to raise money for the Digest. So earlier today I made application to Google to be included in that program. I am not sure if TELECOM Digest will be accepted or not, or if this meets their criteria of what is acceptable content or not. **Assuming it does meet their criteria** I will start including their javascript to produce ads on the web site version of the Digest only. According to a reader/contributor here in the Digest who has been on the Google Ad-Sense program for several months, they are honest, they do pay for clicks, etc and I can assume if all goes well to make a few hundred dollars per month from it. It will only affect the pages at http://telecom-digest.org, and will only remain while *I* decide how well it does here. Neither Usenet nor the mailing list will be involved in any way. **If it is successful** then I propose doing a couple things with the money: (1) I will subscribe to a news service or two so that I can use thier things here in the Digest without having to appeal to Fair Use each time I run something from them; and (2) I will pay Lisa Minter a small stipend each month to deliberatly find telecom-related stuff around the net to use here. All that assumes that the Digest gets accepted and that Google does not flood me with offensive ads, and that if the ads (and resulting payment for same) does not force me to compromise my own editorial integrity. Those are a lot of 'ifs' and I will keep you posted as I go along. PAT ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. 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