---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <72B5D556-B85D-48DF-82C1-AC916062A4EC@roscom.com> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 22:17:54 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Cellphone Alerts Used in New York to Search for Bombing Suspect Cellphone Alerts Used in New York to Search for Bombing Suspect It is believed to be the first such deployment of the nation's Wireless Emergency Alerts system: An electronic wanted poster was sent out for Ahmad Khan Rahami, who was wanted in the weekend attack. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/nyregion/cellphone-alerts-used-in-search-of-manhattan-bombing-suspect.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <lseotblfmqp787mb2f4fsifneqbpn4h1p2@4ax.com> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:38:57 -0400 From: Pete Cresswell <PeteCress@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: BroadBand Alternatives in Philadelphia PA (USA) Suburbs? Specifically Paoli. Recently got the note from Verizon about dinging me $2.80 per month if I don't buy a new router from them. FIOS is nice....but is it *that* nice?.... My base phone bill is up to a little over $100/month from the sixty-some it was a few years ago. Anybody in this area got an alternative that is working for them? I'm thinking ditch FIOS and move my incoming phone service to the VOIP provider that I already use for outgoing. ?? -- Pete Cresswell ------------------------------ Message-ID: <nrgvka$hus$1@reader2.panix.com> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:29:31 +0000 (UTC) From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> Subject: Re: Free Wi-Fi Kiosks Were to Aid New Yorkers. An Unsavory Side Has Spurred a Retreat. In <C150BA24-12AE-4FFA-8366-9141B7683A78@roscom.com> Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> writes: >Free Wi-Fi Kiosks Were to Aid New Yorkers. An Unsavory Side Has Spurred a >Retreat. Err, no. They're a method of installing surveillance equipment all over the city so as to track everyone's movements, both by monitoring cell/smart phones in their pockets and.. by plenty, make that PLENTY, of attached video cameras. (Most people who watch this stuff, i.e. a hefty chunk of c.d.t. readers, figured out the first part. The video cameras and other sensors is something that wasn't so obvious) https://cryptome.org/2016/06/linknyc-spy-kiosks-installation-videos.htm -- _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Wed, 21 Sep 2016