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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:37:28 -0500
From: John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Obama Disappointed With Lack of 'Cool' Phone in Oval Office
Message-ID: <BANLkTinNZKDFHoiQn6qo8u7yPKkdS2itUw@mail.gmail.com>
WASHINGTON -- Turns out President Obama would like a phone upgrade.
The president, in an unscripted moment with donors in Chicago, was
talking about the need to innovate in technology.
"The Oval Office, I always thought I was going to have really cool
phones and stuff," he said during a small fundraising event at a
Chicago restaurant. "I'm like, c'mon guys, I'm the president of the
United States. Where's the fancy buttons and stuff and the big screen
comes up? It doesn't happen."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/15/obama-disappointed-lack-cool-phone-oval-office/
Submitter's note: Lack of a cool phone is enough to keep me from
running for president.
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:34:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Obama Disappointed With Lack of 'Cool' Phone in Oval Office
Message-ID: <468ddb9c-15ed-40ff-ad4e-3ed603c0efac@a26g2000vbo.googlegroups.com>
On Apr 15, 8:37 am, John Mayson <j...@mayson.us> wrote:
> The president, in an unscripted moment with donors in Chicago, was
> talking about the need to innovate in technology.
Somewhere I recall reading that the White House, due to its
communcation requirements, still maintains a cord switchboard. Anyone
know accurately if that was true? A cord board is more flexible than
a console.
I understand that when the president says "Get me Mr. Jones", the
White House operators do whatever it takes to locate Mr. Jones and get
him to a phone, at any time and anywhere.
President Lyndon Johnson had a thing about phones and had lots of them
with fancy options.
> Submitter's note: Lack of a cool phone is enough to keep me from
> running for president.
If I were elected prez (ugh!) there'd be one red 500 set (mostly for
show but would be used for urgent calls), and a 500 style keyset (six
buttons) with a side buzzer button panel. The fireplace coffee table
often shown in pictures with guests would have a 302 set.
There would be no phone in the bedroom since I don't like my sleep
interrupted. If "the call" came in at 3 am, it would go to an
answering machine asking the caller to call back at a more reasonable
hour or go bother the vice-president.
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:03:54 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: APPLE-SA-2011-04-14-2 iOS 4.2.7 Software Update for iPhone
Message-ID: <p0624086cc9cdf21fd5b3@[10.0.1.4]>
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Hash: SHA1
APPLE-SA-2011-04-14-2 iOS 4.2.7 Software Update for iPhone
iOS 4.2.7 Software Update for iPhone is now available and addresses
the following:
Certificate Trust Policy
Available for: iOS 4.2.5 through 4.2.6 for iPhone 4 (CDMA)
Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may intercept
user credentials or other sensitive information
Description: Several fraudulent SSL certificates were issued by a
Comodo affiliate registration authority. This may allow a man-in-the-
middle attacker to redirect connections and intercept user
credentials or other sensitive information. This issue is addressed
by blacklisting the fraudulent certificates. Note: For Mac OS X
systems, this issue is addressed with Security Update 2011-002. For
Windows systems, Safari relies on the certificate store of the host
operating system to determine if an SSL server certificate is
trustworthy. Applying the update described in Microsoft Knowledge
Base Article 2524375 will cause Safari to regard these certificates
as untrusted. The article is available at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2524375
QuickLook
Available for: iOS 4.2.5 through 4.2.6 for iPhone 4 (CDMA)
Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted Microsoft Office file may lead
to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issues existed in QuickLook's
handling of Microsoft Office files. Viewing a maliciously crafted
Microsoft Office file may lead to an unexpected application
termination or arbitrary code execution.
CVE-ID
CVE-2011-1417 : Charlie Miller and Dion Blazakis working with
TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative
WebKit
Available for: iOS 4.2.5 through 4.2.6 for iPhone 4 (CDMA)
Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an
unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An integer overflow issue existed in the handling of
nodesets. Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an
unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.
CVE-ID
CVE-2011-1290 : Vincenzo Iozzo, Willem Pinckaers, Ralf-Philipp
Weinmann, and an anonymous researcher working with TippingPoint's
Zero Day Initiative
WebKit
Available for: iOS 4.2.5 through 4.2.6 for iPhone 4 (CDMA)
Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an
unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A use after free issue existed in the handling of text
nodes. Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an
unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.
CVE-ID
CVE-2011-1344 : Vupen Security working with TippingPoint's Zero Day
Initiative, and Martin Barbella
Installation note:
These updates are only available through iTunes, and will not appear
in your computer's Software Update application, or in the Apple
Downloads site. Make sure you have an Internet connection and have
installed the latest version of iTunes from www.apple.com/itunes/
iTunes will automatically check Apple's update server on its weekly
schedule. When an update is detected, it will download it. When
the iPhone is docked, iTunes will present the user with the option
to install the update. We recommend applying the update immediately
if possible. Selecting Don't Install will present the option the next
time you connect your iPhone.
The automatic update process may take up to a week depending on the
day that iTunes checks for updates. You may manually obtain the
update via the Check for Updates button within iTunes. After doing
this, the update can be applied when your iPhone is docked to your
computer.
To check that the iPhone has been updated:
* Navigate to Settings
* Select General
* Select About. The version after applying this update will be
"4.3.2 (8E303)" or later.
Information will also be posted to the Apple Security Updates
web site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
This message is signed with Apple's Product Security PGP key,
and details are available at:
https://www.apple.com/support/security/pgp/
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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:03:54 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: APPLE-SA-2011-04-14-1 iOS 4.3.2 Software Update
Message-ID: <p0624086bc9cdf209d089@[10.0.1.4]>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
APPLE-SA-2011-04-14-1 iOS 4.3.2 Software Update
iOS 4.3.2 Software Update is now available and addresses the
following:
Certificate Trust Policy
Available for: iOS 3.0 through 4.3.1 for iPhone 3GS and later,
iOS 3.1 through 4.3.1 for iPod touch (3rd generation) and later,
iOS 3.2 through 4.3.1 for iPad
Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may intercept
user credentials or other sensitive information
Description: Several fraudulent SSL certificates were issued by a
Comodo affiliate registration authority. This may allow a man-in-the-
middle attacker to redirect connections and intercept user
credentials or other sensitive information. This issue is addressed
by blacklisting the fraudulent certificates. Note: For Mac OS X
systems, this issue is addressed with Security Update 2011-002. For
Windows systems, Safari relies on the certificate store of the host
operating system to determine if an SSL server certificate is
trustworthy. Applying the update described in Microsoft Knowledge
Base Article 2524375 will cause Safari to regard these certificates
as untrusted. The article is available at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2524375
libxslt
Available for: iOS 3.0 through 4.3.1 for iPhone 3GS and later,
iOS 3.1 through 4.3.1 for iPod touch (3rd generation) and later,
iOS 3.2 through 4.3.1 for iPad
Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to the
disclosure of addresses on the heap
Description: libxslt's implementation of the generate-id() XPath
function disclosed the address of a heap buffer. Visiting a
maliciously crafted website may lead to the disclosure of addresses
on the heap, which may aid in bypassing address space layout
randomization protection. This issue is addressed by generating an ID
based on the difference between the addresses of two heap buffers.
CVE-ID
CVE-2011-0195 : Chris Evans of Google Chrome Security Team
QuickLook
Available for: iOS 3.0 through 4.3.1 for iPhone 3GS and later,
iOS 3.1 through 4.3.1 for iPod touch (3rd generation) and later,
iOS 3.2 through 4.3.1 for iPad
Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted Microsoft Office file may lead
to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue existed in QuickLook's
handling of Microsoft Office files. Viewing a maliciously crafted
Microsoft Office file may lead to an unexpected application
termination or arbitrary code execution.
CVE-ID
CVE-2011-1417 : Charlie Miller and Dion Blazakis working with
TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative
WebKit
Available for: iOS 3.0 through 4.3.1 for iPhone 3GS and later,
iOS 3.1 through 4.3.1 for iPod touch (3rd generation) and later,
iOS 3.2 through 4.3.1 for iPad
Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an
unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An integer overflow issue existed in the handling of
nodesets. Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an
unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.
CVE-ID
CVE-2011-1290 : Vincenzo Iozzo, Willem Pinckaers, Ralf-Philipp
Weinmann, and an anonymous researcher working with TippingPoint's
Zero Day Initiative
WebKit
Available for: iOS 3.0 through 4.3.1 for iPhone 3GS and later,
iOS 3.1 through 4.3.1 for iPod touch (3rd generation) and later,
iOS 3.2 through 4.3.1 for iPad
Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an
unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A use after free issue existed in the handling of text
nodes. Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an
unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.
CVE-ID
CVE-2011-1344 : Vupen Security working with TippingPoint's Zero Day
Initiative, and Martin Barbella
Installation note:
These updates are only available through iTunes, and will not appear
in your computer's Software Update application, or in the Apple
Downloads site. Make sure you have an Internet connection and have
installed the latest version of iTunes from www.apple.com/itunes/
iTunes will automatically check Apple's update server on its weekly
schedule. When an update is detected, it will download it. When
the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad is docked, iTunes will present the
user with the option to install the update. We recommend applying
the update immediately if possible. Selecting Don't Install will
present the option the next time you connect your iPhone, iPod touch,
or iPad.
The automatic update process may take up to a week depending on the
day that iTunes checks for updates. You may manually obtain the
update via the Check for Updates button within iTunes. After doing
this, the update can be applied when your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad
is docked to your computer.
To check that the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad has been updated:
* Navigate to Settings
* Select General
* Select About. The version after applying this update will be
"4.3.2 (8H8)" or later for iPad 2 for Verizon, and
"4.3.2 (8H7)" or later for everything else.
Information will also be posted to the Apple Security Updates
web site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
This message is signed with Apple's Product Security PGP key,
and details are available at:
https://www.apple.com/support/security/pgp/
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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:29:58 +1000
From: David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Do Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer?
Message-ID: <pan.2011.04.15.05.29.55.187586@myrealbox.com>
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:48:19 -0400, Monty Solomon wrote:
>
> Do Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer?
>
> By SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE
.........
> To answer these questions, we need to begin with a more fundamental
> question: How do we know that anything causes cancer?
>
Why not ask the millions (billions?) of dead mice that have given their
lives over the decades to establish pretty solid statistical probabilities
that many things cause cancer?
You might also want to look at the statistics of the victims of the two
atomic bombs dropped on Japan, there seem to be some pretty solid
indicators there as well.
"How do we know that anything causes cancer?" What a dopey question!
--
Regards, David.
David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a
measure of how many questions you have.
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:35:51 -0500
From: John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Do Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer?
Message-ID: <BANLkTikMB1tZXvU-T6Z62606hbwyojt2RA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:29 AM, David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
> "How do we know that anything causes cancer?" What a dopey question!
This was a popular hot potato with my science and engineering professors.
We have never proven, in a scientific sense, that smoking causes
cancer in humans. Why? The experiment would be unethical. We would
have to take a large group of people, tell them to smoke for 30 years,
and have the control group never smoke. And just because it causes
cancer in non-human species doesn't mean it'll affect humans. This is
the sliver of hope that the tobacco industry hangs on to. Remember,
this is the industry that fought efforts to prevent children from
smoking claiming smoking has never killed a child, which is
technically true since they haven't smoked long enough to die from it.
This brings me to a wider topic and I hope I don't stray too far off
course. I really get the sense that nothing is true and everything is
true. Pick your hot button topic: cell phones and cancer, global
warming, vaccines and autism and you can find mountains of "research"
"proving" both sides of the debate. It depends on who funds the
research and how the numbers are spun.
John
--
John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
Austin, Texas, USA
***** Moderator's Note *****
OK, it's about cellphones, so I'll let this thread run for a while and
see how bizare it gets.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:35:54 +0000 (UTC)
From: Koos van den Hout <koos+newsposting@kzdoos.xs4all.nl>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Comcast bumps up speed for home-Internet users
Message-ID: <io9hjq$olt$9@kzdoos.xs4all.nl>
Jim Bennett <ajbcommconsulting@frontier.com> wrote in <20110415041510.GD32349@telecom.csail.mit.edu>:
>> Jon Swartz, writing in USA TODAY [April 14, 2011] wrote:
>>
>> The service delivers data at 105 megabits per second - more than 60
>> times faster than a T-1 line, which most businesses rely on, Comcast says.
>>
> Comcast has been comparing their basic business package to T1 service in
> their radio ads for a while now. I have always found it to be an
> "apples to oranges" comparison, because most businesses that I know who
> have a T1 use it for phone service - as it was intended.
It (has been) a popular measure of bandwidth: I have seen cases where
marketing types of european internet-related companies kept insisting an
answer whether they had T1 or T3 connectivity (back when T1 was
'affordable' for a company and a T3 'expensive'). Having something else was
incomprehensible.
But there is one thing a (business-rate) T1 Internet connection offers[3]
which comcast isn't even getting close to: you can fill it with IP
traffic 24 hours per day for the entire month and the worst that could
happen is a salesguy calling up if you might be interested in an upgrade.
Back of the envelope calculation[1]: that's over 380 gigabyte/month in one
direction.
Current highest monthly cap for comcast services is 250 gigabyte/month[2].
[1] 150000 bytes/second * 3600 seconds * 24 hour * 30 days = 388800000000
bytes.
[2] source:
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/comcast_rolls_out_105mbps_internet_across_nation
[3] based on http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1825
Koos
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Date: 15 Apr 2011 15:22:14 GMT
From: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Comcast bumps up speed for home-Internet users
Message-ID: <4da862a6$0$87581$8046368a@newsreader.iphouse.net>
Koos van den Hout <koos+newsposting@kzdoos.xs4all.nl> writes:
>Jim Bennett <ajbcommconsulting@frontier.com> wrote in <20110415041510.GD32349@telecom.csail.mit.edu>:
>>> Jon Swartz, writing in USA TODAY [April 14, 2011] wrote:
>>>
>>> The service delivers data at 105 megabits per second - more than 60
>>> times faster than a T-1 line, which most businesses rely on, Comcast says.
>> Comcast has been comparing their basic business package to T1 service in
>> their radio ads for a while now. I have always found it to be an
>> "apples to oranges" comparison, because most businesses that I know who
>> have a T1 use it for phone service - as it was intended.
>It (has been) a popular measure of bandwidth: I have seen cases where
>marketing types of european internet-related companies kept insisting an
>answer whether they had T1 or T3 connectivity..
Unfortunately, while businesses have the idea of a T1 pretty firmly
ingrained in, they don't know how much bandwidth it actually carries.
I get alot of comments from business type customers that their 20Mbps
cable connection isn't fast enough, someday they'll be able to afford and
get a massive bandwidth upgrade and go to T1..
***** Moderator's Note *****
Well, they're not right about the speed, but that's not necessarily an
unproductive goal. A "T-1" circuit goes from a business directly to
their ISP, so they get all the bandwidth, all of the time. However
"fast" a cable connection might be, it is still only a pipe to the
cable company, and after that the cableco can mix it in with a million
other users to save costs, or screw with connections to places they
don't like (as Comcast has been doing), or exact tribute from those
who don't want to get sidelined, etc.
In any case, most business transactions aren't high-bandwidth: emails,
for example. That means that latency is the important factor, because
try as they might, business can never train their employees to ignore
the "sending email" message after they finish an email, so getting a
response quickly (as happens with a T-1 that's only two or three hops
away from the backbone) is usually a better choice than getting a
higher bandwidth but waiting longer for it.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: 15 Apr 2011 12:02:38 -0400
From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Comcast bumps up speed for home-Internet users
Message-ID: <io9q6u$4q0$1@panix2.panix.com>
Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com> wrote:
>Comcast on Thursday is expected to announce a new, blur-fast residential
>service, called Extreme 105, available to consumers in more than 40
>million homes in San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Boston,
>Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Miami, among others.
>
>The service delivers data at 105 megabits per second - more than 60
>times faster than a T-1 line, which most businesses rely on, Comcast says.
Wow! That's as fast as most Korean homes had in 2005!
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:46:56 -0400
From: Ernest Donlin <ernest.donlin.remove-this@and-this-too.gmail.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Super article about security
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=P7DPiSCK3Ej+yR6FUMT9fMTyyjQ@mail.gmail.com>
Moderator, please spamproof my email before you post this.
The April 15 edition of Crypto-Gram has a super article about how home users
make up legends that hurt their computer security.
Here's a quote from Crypto-Gram:
"This is a really interesting paper: "Folk Models of Home Computer
Security," by Rick Wash. It was presented at SOUPS, the Symposium on Usable
Privacy and Security, last year.
http://www.rickwash.com/papers/rwash-homesec-soups10-final.pdf ".
***** Moderator's Note *****
PLEASE put "[obfuscate]" (no quotes) in your subject line if you want
me to change your "From" address! And, if you don't want that, please
put "[telecom]" (again, no quotes) in your subject line to avoid the
spam filters.
Oh, and "[anonymous]" has an obvious purpose too.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:17:09 -0400
From: Matt Simpson <net-news69@jmatt.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: After Breach, Companies Warn of E-Mail Fraud
Message-ID: <net-news69-C345EC.12170815042011@news.toast.net>
Unsure about attribution, but somebody wrote:
> >My wife uses her email very carefully to a small group of social
> >contacts. Yet, she gets some spam.
How careful are the social contacts that have her email address? Are
any of them the type who forward every silly joke, urban legend, etc. to
everybody in their address book, with all the recipient addresses
exposed on the To: line, so that your wife's address continues to
circulate as the message gets forwarded again and again with the list of
addresses getting larger? Sooner or later some spammer will get hold of
that.
Do any of her friends click malware links that load bots on their
machines that suck all the email addresses from their contact lists and
messages in their inboxes, and send them to spammers?
I find that no matter how careful you are about giving out your email
address, it's almost impossible to avoid giving it to somebody far less
careful.
***** Moderator's Note *****
Martha Washington once said "I let him out for one night, and ever
since, it's 'Washington slept here', 'Washington slept here',
'Washington ...'"
I'm sorry! OK?
Bill Horne
Moderator
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