From editor@telecom-digest.org Thu Feb 5 14:06:11 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p2/8.11.3) id i15J6Bp13412; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:06:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:06:11 -0500 (EST) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200402051906.i15J6Bp13412@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 #58 TELECOM Digest Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:06:00 EST Volume 23 : Issue 58 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson "My Advice to Social Networking Services" (Monty Solomon) AT&T Wireless & T-Mobile USA Sign Airport Wi-Fi Roaming (Monty Solomon) Three Blind Phreaks (Monty Solomon) Connecting 4-Wire (Line-in and Line-out) to a Headset Jack (Newsgroups) The NUG-IT Magazine for Telecom Professionals (Pokey) Unused 800 Number - Ending in 1000 - Can I Rent it Out? (Chris Barr) You Switched -TO- Cavalier? (Carl Moore) Re: Switch Verizon to Cavalier, Can't Get Through Some Places (John) Re: Jackson, Timberlake Apologize for Flash (Clark W. Griswold, Jr.) Re: MTV Blames Janet Jackson for Super Bowl Incident (Laurie Laws) Re: What If ...? Was Re: Verizon Violates DNC List (jbl) Re: Faked CallerID Info? (Herb Stein) Re: Faked CallerID Info? (Ken Alper) Re: Plain Old Cell Phones Fading Away in U.S. (email@crazyhat.net) Call for Papers: ICWIN 2004 (Wireless Networks) (Mishra, Aishvarya) 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 22:02:17 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: "My Advice to Social Networking Services" Christopher Allen I have now had CEOs of three different social networks send me emails asking me to compare Orkut to their service. I've not had a chance to dig deeply into good answers for each specific one, but I did have some general advice that I wanted to offer given my recent experiences with Orkut.com, and my evaluation and followup on various social networking services in December. http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/02/my_advice_to_so.html Confirmed Email Privacy Hole at Orkut Christopher Allen Another Orkut user and I have confirmed a privacy hole in Orkut whenever you send a message to someone via Orkut. http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/02/confirmed_email.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 09:25:20 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile USA Sign Airport Wi-Fi Roaming Agreement Covers Wi-Fi at Denver International, Philadelphia International and San Francisco International Airports BELLEVUE, Wash. and REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Driving expanded Wi-Fi (802.11b) service coverage at the nation's airports, T-Mobile USA, Inc. and AT&T Wireless (NYSE:AWE) today announced a reciprocal Wi-Fi roaming agreement for Denver International (DIA), Philadelphia International (PHL) and San Francisco International (SFO) airports. Today's announcement marks the first roaming agreement between AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile for Wi-Fi service. As a result of this roaming agreement, T-Mobile HotSpot subscribers can soon add DIA and PHL to the list of hotspot locations available to them to stay connected to the Internet, access their corporate networks, or check e-mail via a Wi-Fi enabled laptop or PDA. For AT&T Wireless Wi-Fi customers, the roaming agreement means they will be able to use their Wi-Fi device throughout the public areas of SFO. The companies' respective customers will be able to roam using their existing user ID and password. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=40441795 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 22:33:27 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Three Blind Phreaks Issue 12.02 - February 2004 Three Blind Phreaks How the phone-phreaking Badir brothers ran rings around Israel's telcos for six scam-filled years. By Michael Kaplan Inside the chintz-filled living room of the Badir family's neat and modest home, a feast of freshly roasted chicken, saffron rice, and seasoned vegetable stew perfumes the air. Friends and relatives pour through the front door to congratulate 27-year-old Munther "Ramy" Badir. He's just been released from prison after serving 47 months for computer-related crimes. Outside, Islamic prayers resonate from speakers on a truck moving slowly down the dusty streets of Kafr Kassem. Everyone in this Israeli village -- populated mostly by Arabs -- appears ecstatic to have Ramy back. But he does not see their smiles. Ramy, along with two of his three brothers, has been blind since birth due to a genetic defect. He and his sightless brothers have devoted their lives to proving they can out-think, out-program, and out-hack anyone with vision. (Their sighted brother, Ashraf, is a baker with no tech leanings.) They've been remarkably successful. Ramy says dryly, "A computer that is safe and protected is a computer stacked in a warehouse and unplugged." Israeli authorities agree. The 44 charges leveled against Ramy, Muzher, and Shadde Badir in 1999 included telecommunications fraud, theft of computer data, and impersonation of a police officer. The brothers' six-year spree of hacking into phone systems and hijacking telephone time ended when they were convicted of stealing credit card numbers and breaking into the Israeli army radio station's telephone system to set up an illicit phone company. Unwitting customers - mostly Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza Strip - paid the fake telco for long distance calls that were billed to the radio station. A lawyer close to the case said that the Badirs' scams pulled in more than $2 million. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.02/phreaks.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 01:11:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Newsgroups Subject: Connecting 4-Wire (Line-in and Line-out) to a headset jack Organization: Optimum Online I bought a USRobotics ConferenceLink Speakerphone from Heartland America for 30 bucks. Originally 400 or so. That's the good news. What they didn't tell me was that it is designed to work with PBX's (obsolete ones at that) and it _won't_ work with analog POTS lines. I'm a techie, so rather than send it back like any rational person, I am determined to make it work. It comes with the connector for the PBX (worthless), but because it's USRobotics, it also comes with a connector to two mini-jacks that are line-in and line-out to a computer sound card. I tried it with my speakerphone-enabled modem card and it works. The qualilty is not good, however, because of interference inside my home-made computer box (my guess). Then I got this bright idea. I have a great Sony handset that has a headset jack. In the end what I want is the speakerphone to connect into the headset jack of the Sony handset. To make that work, I need to bridge between the 4 wire (line-in and line-out) jacks to a headset jack. RadioSnack doesn't have anything built for it (I've tried). I'm willing to cut wires and have the appropriate jacks to do it, but I'm confused about what to attach to what. There are two wires each going to the line-in and line-out jacks from the USRobotics ConferenceLink. It looks like there are two (maybe three?) going to the headset. Can someone tell me how to connect this up? Thanks in advance for your help! ------------------------------ From: Pokey Subject: The NUG-IT Magazine for Telecom Professionals Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 21:00:25 -0500 The latest copy of The NUG-IT Magazine is available on-line. If you are involved in, or wish to be involved in, IT, Telecom, or Call Center operations then 'The NUG-IT Magazine' is for you. It contains 'Golden NUG-ITs of Information - from Traditional to IP Telephony'. To download current and past issues, or to subscribe: http://magazine.TelecomCafe.org Subscription automatically enrolls you in our Reader Rewards Program, and you will be notified by email of new issues. www.nug-it.org We do not sell or rent our list. If you are interested in advertising or writing for The NUG-IT Magazine, please contact us: http://www.nug-it.org/contact ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 11:13:25 -0500 From: Chris Barr Reply-To: c-barr@comcast.net Subject: Unused 800 Number - Ending in 1000 - Can I Rent it Out? We currently have an 800 number that won't be in active use for probably 2 years. It's an attractive number, ending in 1000. Can this be leased or rented out to another company? In advance, thanks for any feedback. Chris Barr ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:19:29 EST From: Carl Moore Subject: You Switched -TO- Cavalier? Some time ago (starting in July 2002 or so) I told the story of having to have my lines taken back by Verizon after Cavalier withdrew from the part of Maryland where I live (I am in the North East exchange in Cecil County, and had subscribed to Conectiv local calling, later taken over by Cavalier, because it offered local service to northern Delaware, where some of my phone traffic goes). But in going from Verizon to Conectiv/Cavalier and back to Verizon, my phone numbers did not change. Where in Maryland is your Cavalier service? ------------------------------ From: jvj1@yahoo.com (John) Subject: Re: Switch Verizon to Cavalier, Can't Get Through From Some Places Date: 4 Feb 2004 22:17:08 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Just called from school to my home. Now the calls are getting through ... Voice mail is also working. I'm sure the school and home is same exchange, it is only few blocks away. Thanks for replying. -John Ken Abrams wrote in message news:: > TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to John : >> Or maybe the school is on Verizon. You said 'I have many people >> call me and there is no problem with Cavalier.' No, there probably >> isn't any problem with Cavalier. I would suggest the problem is with >> Verizon. > My bet is: > The school's phone works out of the same switch as John's home phone. > Calls placed from that switch are the only ones that fail. > Because: > Calls from any other switch are routed based upon a query to a common > data base. They seem to work. > Calls from within the home switch will NOT query the common database > unless the number record in that switch says to make that query. It > appears that the number record in his home Verizon switch was not > updated properly. ------------------------------ From: Clark W. Griswold, Jr. <73115.1041@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: Jackson, Timberlake Apologize for Flash Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 19:16:41 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com J Kelly wrote: > Does anyone else wonder why they keep mentioning that affiliates may > be fined? How in the hell did some little CBS affiliate in West > Undershirt, Iowa have anything to do with it? They just pass through > what the CBS network feeds them, they had *NO IDEA* they should be > watching this in case they needed to censor it. As far as they knew > it was simply a football game. Because the affiliate is the one who holds the license for use of the public airways and agrees to abide by the rules for that particular chuck of public spectrum. Most of the FCC authority over the network relates to Owned and Operated stations -- that is, stations the network runs directly. >The affiliates do not normally censor what the network is sending >them unless they have reason to believe ahead of time that something >offensive to their local audience is about to be broadcast. Isn't that interesting ... You've just summed up the problem that most people have with J&J's little stunt. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 21:51:55 -0500 From: Laurie Laws Subject: Re: MTV Blames Janet Jackson for Super Bowl Incident roger wrote: > Janet shouldn't even be at the stupid bowl. > And, stupid bowl sucked this year. Two teams no one cares about ... Try again. The Nielsen numbers were 44.2/Rating 63/Share. It was one of the best games ever for the Super Bowl, suspenseful right up to the last few seconds. Hardly something 'no one cares about'. In New England, the share was even higher. ------------------------------ From: jbl Subject: Re: What If ...? was Re: Verizon Violates DNC List Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 20:19:39 -0700 Organization: On the desert Reply-To: jbl@spamblocked.com In , noname wrote: > New England Telephone and New York Telephone were the first to group > together as Nynex. That's not quite how it worked. After the reorg in 1984, the 22 (or so) Bell Operating Companies were grouped under the seven regional holding companies. Nynex was the regional company for New York Tel and New England Tel; Bell Atlantic had the various C&Ps, NJ Bell, etc.; Pacific Telesis had Pac Bell and some others; Ameritech had Illinois Bell, Michigan Bell and a few others, and so on. It was later that Nynex decided to absorb NYT and NET into a single operating company, and similar things went on elsewhere. Then some of the big mergers started (e.g. SBC borging PacTel and Ameritech, for instance; Qwest buying USWest, etc.) /JBL ------------------------------ From: Herb Stein Subject: Re: Faked CallerID Info? Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 21:36:24 -0600 Daniel W. Johnson wrote in message news:telecom23.57.8@telecom-digest.org: > TELECOM Digest Editor added in message > news:: >> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I guess so, if you feel that exposing >> yourself on national TV is 'normal' behavior. Although I personally >> feel Michael is innocent in this latest affair, victimized by a very >> noisy mother, I also think he is just as goofy as she is. I do not >> watch much television, and certainly not the Super Bowl. Thanks for >> reminding me why not. I did not see either the horse incident or the >> instance of LaToya Jackson's indecent exposure, but I certainly am >> reading a lot about it. PAT] > I haven't read anything about indecent exposure on the part of LaToya, > just the incident with her younger sister Janet on the Super Bowl > halftime show. > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: My bad ... I should have said 'Janet' > instead of 'LaToya'. PAT] LaToya was in Playboy/Penthouse/Hustler/ or one of them a few years ago. Of course, the reader of the magazine found the spread anything but indecent. :-) Herb Stein herb@herbstein.com ------------------------------ From: ken@nac.net (Ken Alper) Subject: Re: Faked CallerID Info? Date: 5 Feb 2004 10:31:29 -0800 dold@FakedXCall.usenet.us.com wrote in message news:: > I noticed that I have received some telemarketer calls that show an > 800 number on caller ID, with the name of the survey or marketing > firm. I am VERY interested in any data like this. My firm has been trying to do exactly this -- send an 800 number along with our name -- and we've had absolutely no success doing so. If you can send along to me any of the number/name combinations, I might be able to get in touch with their telecom people and figure out how they're doing it. --Ken ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Plain Old Cell Phones Fading Away in U.S. Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 00:55:14 -0700 From: email@crazyhat.net In message <> Joseph did ramble: > Believe it or not some people want a mobile phone that they can > actually make and receive calls on.... easily. It's going to be many > years if never that cell phones supplant personal computers as a way > to communicate data. Here here. Personally, all I really want out of a cellphone is to make calls, receive calls, possibly a phonebook (names, numbers, and nothing else), call timers, and a bluetooth interface. Everything else should be handled on one of the several other electronic devices I carry around with me, including the full phonebook, web browsing, email, text messaging, photos, and whatever other fetish is popular this week. ------------------------------ From: amishra@ilstu.edu (Mishra, Aishvarya) Subject: Call for Papers: ICWIN 2004 (Wireless Networks) Date: 4 Feb 2004 15:57:45 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com CALL FOR PAPERS The 2004 International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering (18 Joint Int'l Conferences) Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA June 21-24, 2004 Dear Colleagues: You are invited to submit a draft paper (see instructions below). All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. The International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering is a major annual research event. It assembles a spectrum of affiliated research conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer science and computer engineering. The last Multiconference attracted over 1,650 computer science and engineering researchers from 78 countries. We expect to have over 2,000 attendees for this set of conference. One of the events of the 2004 conference (18 conferences) is: 2004 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'04) All areas of wireless are welcomed. In particular, we are looking for papers in the areas of security and routing of AD-HOC networks. (a link to other conference's URL can be found at http://www.world-academy-of-science.org) Please regard this announcement as General Guidelines. You are requested to send your submission to session chair at the contact address which appears below. CONFERENCES CONTACT: Mishra, Aishvary Illinois State University Tel (O): +1 309 438 8338 Fax (O): +1 309 438 5113 Tel (R): +1 309 862 3768 Mail: amishra@ilstu.edu E-mail for paper submissions: ICWIN@lnotes.acs.ilstu.edu SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies of their draft paper (about 5 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to Aishvary, Mishra by the due date (who will be forwarding the papers to respective conference chairs/committees). E-mail submissions in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax submissions are also acceptable.) The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number,& fax number for each author. 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