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The Telecom Digest for January 2, 2014
Volume 33 : Issue 1 : "text" Format
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Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 01:42:57 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Why Do Android Smartphones Guzzle the Most Data?
Message-ID: <p0624084ecee9695630e3@[10.0.1.11]>
Why Do Android Smartphones Guzzle the Most Data?
By BRIAN X. CHEN
DECEMBER 31, 2013
Android smartphones are kind of like Hummers. Reminiscent of the
oversize, gas-guzzling S.U.V.'s, Androids have the biggest screens
and tend to use much more data than other types of smartphones,
including iPhones. And that higher data usage could rack up heftier
phone bills.
In a recent study, Ericsson, the networking company, found that
global mobile Internet traffic varied greatly, depending on the
software system and the network that a phone uses.
But the highest average data consumption was seen on Android phones,
which consumed an average of 2.2 gigabytes of data a month on one
network, the study said. By contrast, iPhones used roughly 1.7
gigabytes a month and Windows phones used approximately 1.4 gigabytes
a month, Ericsson found.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/why-do-android-smartphones-guzzle-the-most-data/
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Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 01:34:31 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Apple Says It Is 'Unaware' of N.S.A. iPhone Hack Program
Message-ID: <p0624084ccee966dc9c52@[10.0.1.11]>
Apple Says It Is 'Unaware' of N.S.A. iPhone Hack Program
By NICOLE PERLROTH
DECEMBER 31, 2013
Apple said Tuesday that it was unaware of the National Security
Agency's efforts to hack into the iPhone and has never facilitated
agency efforts to install backdoors into its products.
The Cupertino, Calif., company released a strongly worded statement
in response to a recent article in the German magazine Der Spiegel,
which reported that N.S.A. analysts refer internally to iPhone users
as "zombies" who "pay for their own surveillance."
"Apple has never worked with the N.S.A. to create a backdoor in any
of our products, including iPhone," an Apple spokeswoman said in an
email.
Der Spiegel released a number of slides detailing the agency's
hacking division - known internally as the Tailored Access
Operations, or T.A.O. division. One slide, describing an N.S.A.
software implant called DROPOUTJEEP, stood out.
The agency described DROPOUTJEEP as a "software implant for Apple
iPhone" that has all kinds of handy spy capabilities. DROPOUTJEEP can
pull or push information onto the iPhone, snag SMS text messages,
contact lists, voicemail and a person's geolocation, both from the
phone itself and from cell towers in close proximity.
It can also turn the iPhone into a "hot mic" using the phone's own
microphone as a recording device and capture images via the iPhone's
camera. (Reminder to readers: Masking tape is not a bad idea).
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/apple-says-it-is-unaware-of-n-s-a-iphone-hack-program/
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 02:34:44 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Researchers publish Snapchat code allowing phone number matching after exploit disclosures ignored
Message-ID: <p06240859cee97526f5c4@[10.0.1.11]>
Researchers publish Snapchat code allowing phone number matching
after exploit disclosures ignored
Summary: Snapchat's previously undocumented API and code for two
exploits have been published, allowing mass name/phone number
matching, and mass creation of bogus accounts.
By Violet Blue for Zero Day
December 25, 2013
ZDNet
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http://www.zdnet.com/researchers-publish-snapchat-code-allowing-phone-number-matching-after-exploit-disclosures-ignored-7000024629/
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