---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <321DACC6-06DF-48A0-A618-F723535C6872@roscom.com> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:27:49 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Yahoo hit in worst hack ever, 500 million accounts swiped Yahoo hit in worst hack ever, 500 million accounts swiped. The internet company, [which is] being bought by Verizon, says a state-sponsored actor stole email addresses, passwords and birth dates. Change your passwords. Now. https://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-500-million-accounts-hacked-data-breach/ Yahoo Says Hackers Stole Data on 500 Million Users in 2014 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/technology/yahoo-hackers.html How to Protect Yourself After the Yahoo Attack http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/technology/personaltech/what-to-do-if-hacked.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <002901d21602$4920fcd0$db62f670$@nc.rr.com> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 21:23:41 -0400 From: "Bob Goudreau" <BobGoudreau@nc.rr.com> Subject: Re: AT&T Lab's Project AirGig Nears First Fiedld Trials The moderator wrote: > ... the net effect is to remove the "home install" technician from > the equation. "Requiring" an electric company lineman to mount it > doesn't make up the difference: there are no connections to wire, no > adjustments to check, and (most importantly) no time-consuming > visits to individual residences. > > It should be called Broadband Without Employees (BWE). I think > Generalissimo Franco would approve. I think almost everyone would approve, if the result is cheaper and more widely available broadband in underserved rural areas. Doubtless there were some manual switchboard operators who were upset when Strowger introduced the first automated switch over a century ago. I'm glad the Luddites didn't win then, and I hope they don't win now. Bob Goudreau Cary, NC ------------------------------ Message-ID: <ns3a2n$ael$1@dont-email.me> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:18:28 -0400 From: Fred Goldstein <fg_es@removeQRM.ionary.com> Subject: Re: AT&T Lab's Project AirGig Nears First Fiedld Trials On 9/22/2016 10:53 AM, Fred Goldstein wrote: > On 9/20/2016 11:26 PM, Neal McLain wrote: > ... >> It doesn't matter that BPL has gone through several deaths and >> rebirths, or that it is widely thought of to be impractical. So long >> as the labor costs are at stake, BPL will keep crawling out of the >> grave. > > This isn't BPL. It's a different meaning of "over". In AirGig's case, > it's "on the same pole, above". ... > > It's all rather risky and I have some doubts that they'll follow through > in volume. But it's not BPL, which, like Generalissimo Franco, is still > dead. > > ***** Moderator's Note ***** > > If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck ... But it's not a duck. It's more like a platypus. > ... the net effect is to remove the "home install" technician from the > equation. "Requiring" an electric company lineman to mount it doesn't > make up the difference: there are no connections to wire, no > adjustments to check, and (most importantly) no time-consuming visits > to individual residences. > > It should be called Broadband Without Employees (BWE). I think > Generalissimo Franco would approve. No such luck on AT&T's part. This probably still requires home installation. In most fixed broadband scenarios, the radio at the customer site has to be installed outdoors. It is possible that in some locations, the density of the access radio will be high enough to allow customers to just install it themselves, like plugging in a cell phone. But performance is a function of signal strength and you get a much stronger signal outdoors, plus a fixed installation can use a directional gain antenna. If access is done on millimeter wave (vs. 3.5 or 5 GHz), then it must be a highly directional fixed antenna. On lower frequencies, it will help a lot. However, installing an antenna on a customer's house -- think "DirecTV", already in ATT's wheelhouse -- is a whole heck of a lot easier than installing fiber all the way to the house. ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 25 Sep 2016