---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180602000410.GA3276@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 20:04:10 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Scam alert: NYPD warns about Verizon Wireless hoax By Kayla Simas STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The NYPD is warning residents of a scam with a caller claiming to be from Verizon Wireless. The 123rd Precinct posted to their Twitter feed on Tuesday, concerning the scam alert. The post warns customers to be cautious when receiving an official sounding call from a recording claiming to be Verizon. https://www.silive.com/news/2018/06/nypd_warns_new_verizon_wireles.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180601234712.GA3215@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 19:47:12 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: The 'Thanksgiving Effect' And The Creepy Power Of Phone Data By ROBBIE GONZALEZ IF YOU DIDN'T know it before the Cambridge Analytica debacle, you do now: Your digital habits are dual-use data. One company might analyze them to recommend you TV shows, while another might try to leverage them to influence an election. The first scenario you might be OK with, the other not so much. So, knowing what you know now, ask yourself how you feel about this: Your personal data, it seems, can also be used to infer how your politics affect your personal life, including things like the time you spend with your family during the holidays. https://www.wired.com/story/the-thanksgiving-effect-and-the-power-of-phone-data/?mbid=nl_060118_daily_list_p -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <3494DD8A-8A82-4C3B-90FB-8F8D346BCD57@roscom.com> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 11:13:41 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: What Comcast would look like if it pulled off a Fox deal The news last week that Comcast might press ahead with an attempt to buy a bulk of 21st Century Fox assets out from under Disney has set off alarm bells - and questions. How serious is Comcast? How much higher would its offer need to be for 21st Century Fox shareholders, who will vote the second week of July, to accept it? And how close would Disney need to be to get in a counteroffer? (Some analysts project Comcast's offer will be as much as 15 percent higher than Disney's $52.4 billion bid, in an all-cash deal instead of an all-stock one.) And what would be the place of James and Lachlan Murdoch, scions of Rupert, in a non-Disney world? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/06/01/what-comcast-would-look-like-if-it-pulled-off-a-fox-deal/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <BA54362C-EED7-49E4-9927-4BF56DFD82CE@roscom.com> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 19:57:27 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Signs of sophisticated cellphone spying found near White House, U.S. officials say Signs of sophisticated cellphone spying found near White House, U.S. officials say A federal study found signs that surveillance devices for intercepting cellphone calls and texts were operating near the White House and other sensitive locations in the Washington area last year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/06/01/signs-of-sophisticated-cell-phone-spying-found-near-white-house-say-u-s-officials/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 03 Jun 2018