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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:43:59 -0400
From: tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Q.: Caller-ID fraud -- grounds for class actions?
Message-ID: <1fc75g0h4f20y$.zztmlsz21ln1.dlg@40tude.net>
What with all the misleading and fraudulently posted Caller-ID signs on the
one hand (000-000-0000 or 800-421-0000 or your very own phone number,
etc.), which of course results from the phone companies' unwillingness to
ensure only valid information is transmitted as Caller-ID data, and the
ILECs' and CLECs' insistence on charging extra ($5 to $10, or even more)
for transmitting those very likely phony phone numbers to a subscriber, how
long, I must wonder, before there's a class action law suit against the
phone companies for recovery of fraudulently collected Caller-ID fees
(along with penalty, perhaps)?
The newest vish*, it seems, is malefactors' transmitting, as Caller-ID data,
the names and matching central inbound phone numbers of major US banks: cf.
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/04/19/fraudulent-calls-target-us-banks-another-look-at-caller-id-spoofing/
-or-
http://goo.gl/paEMk
or
http://www.darkreading.com/smb-security/167901073/security/vulnerabilities/232700095/
-or-
http://goo.gl/Qzz7D
Cheers, -- tlvp
--
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.
***** Moderator's Note *****
* "Phishing" attacks done through the PSTN have been dubbed "Vishing".
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:03:47 +0000 (UTC)
From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Q.: Caller-ID fraud -- grounds for class actions?
Message-ID: <jnbkk3$244$1@reader1.panix.com>
In <1fc75g0h4f20y$.zztmlsz21ln1.dlg@40tude.net> tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> writes:
[snip]
>The newest vish*, it seems, is malefactors' transmitting, as Caller-ID data,
>the names and matching central inbound phone numbers of major US banks: cf.
>***** Moderator's Note *****
>* "Phishing" attacks done through the PSTN have been dubbed "Vishing".
Just a minor technical correction to this. The "Caller ID"
that's "sent forward" from the caller/central office/spoof
contains only the number. The recipient's telco (whether
traditional central office or "something else") takes that
phone number, does a data base dip [a], gets the associated
name info, and then passes both pieces the rest of the way.
[a] and as we know all too well, even with legit phone numbers
those databases have lots of issues.
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_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:58:33 +1000
From: "news" <news@newsfe14.iad.highwinds-media.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Airline pilot distracted by new text messages botches landing attempt
Message-ID: <pan.2012.04.26.09.58.32.408715@yahoo.com.au>
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:14:02 -0400, Monty Solomon wrote:
>
> Airline pilot distracted by new text messages botches landing attempt
>
> APRIL 19, 2012
> BY MIKE FLACY
>
> While U.S. residents that fly commercially have to turn off their cell
> phones prior to take-off, a airline pilot in Australia left his phone on
> during a flight and found new text messages more interesting than landing
> the plane.
..........
If you were in a cockpit landing a jetliner you would probably want to
turn off the distracting sound rather than be finding the actual messages
"more interesting".
--
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: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:43:25 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: 'What Were You Thinking?' For Couples, New Source of Online Friction
Message-ID: <p06240867cbbe586838c4@[10.0.1.2]>
'What Were You Thinking?' For Couples, New Source of Online Friction
By LAURA M. HOLSON
April 25, 2012
The more than 43,000 Twitter followers of Rosanne Cash, the singer
and daughter of Johnny Cash, have come to expect her tart commentary
on married life with her husband, John Leventhal, a Grammy-winning
musician.
She chided him for performing at a concert in jeans he had worn three
days in a row. Another day, she posted that he had cajoled her to
help organize his "stuff." But Mr. Leventhal, known as Mr. L to Ms.
Cash's followers, apparently is not a fan of her enthusiasm for
sharing online.
Ms. Cash said in an interview that another time she wrote about her
husband taking a nap. When he showed up at the studio, the sound
engineer was puzzled, since he had just read Ms. Cash's post online.
"I thought you were taking a nap," the engineer said to him.
"John called me and he was really annoyed," she recalled. "He said,
'Don't tell people I'm taking a nap!' "
Relationships are hard enough. But the rise of social media - where
sharing private moments is encouraged, and provocative and
confessional postings can help build a following - has created a new
source of friction for couples: what is fair game for sharing with
the world?
If one half of a couple is not interested in broadcasting the details
of a botched dinner or romantic weekend, Facebook postings or tweets
can create irritation, embarrassment, miscommunication and bruised
egos.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/fashion/for-couples-new-source-of-online-friction.html
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:26:45 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: The Flight From Conversation
Message-ID: <p0624088bcbbf3596c558@[10.0.1.2]>
The Flight From Conversation
By SHERRY TURKLE
April 21, 2012
WE live in a technological universe in which we are always
communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere
connection.
At home, families sit together, texting and reading e-mail. At work
executives text during board meetings. We text (and shop and go on
Facebook) during classes and when we're on dates. My students tell me
about an important new skill: it involves maintaining eye contact
with someone while you text someone else; it's hard, but it can be
done.
Over the past 15 years, I've studied technologies of mobile
connection and talked to hundreds of people of all ages and
circumstances about their plugged-in lives. I've learned that the
little devices most of us carry around are so powerful that they
change not only what we do, but also who we are.
We've become accustomed to a new way of being "alone together."
Technology-enabled, we are able to be with one another, and also
elsewhere, connected to wherever we want to be. We want to customize
our lives. We want to move in and out of where we are because the
thing we value most is control over where we focus our attention. We
have gotten used to the idea of being in a tribe of one, loyal to our
own party.
Our colleagues want to go to that board meeting but pay attention
only to what interests them. To some this seems like a good idea, but
we can end up hiding from one another, even as we are constantly
connected to one another.
A businessman laments that he no longer has colleagues at work. He
doesn't stop by to talk; he doesn't call. He says that he doesn't
want to interrupt them. He says they're "too busy on their e-mail."
But then he pauses and corrects himself. "I'm not telling the truth.
I'm the one who doesn't want to be interrupted. I think I should. But
I'd rather just do things on my BlackBerry."
A 16-year-old boy who relies on texting for almost everything says
almost wistfully, "Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like
to learn how to have a conversation."
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:19:13 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: 3.2m in Mass. have had data lost, stolen
Message-ID: <p06240884cbbf163f0958@[10.0.1.2]>
3.2m in Mass. have had data lost, stolen
4-year study shows consumers need more safeguards
By Jenn Abelson
Globe Staff / April 24, 2012
Nearly half of Massachusetts residents have had their personal
information lost or stolen as a result of about 1,800 data breaches
over the past four years, according to a new report from the state's
Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation.
...
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2012/04/24/32m_in_mass_have_had_data_lost_stolen/
http://www.boston.com/business/graphics/data_security_breaches_in_mass/
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