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Volume 30 : Issue 195 : "text" Format
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Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:11:59 -0700
From: Steven <diespammers@ikillspammers.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: I'm looking for a job
Message-ID: <j1ckk0$ltt$1@dont-email.me>
On 8/3/11 1:50 PM, Bill Horne wrote:
> I'm looking for a job, and would appreciate the readers' help.
>
> I just finished a gig in Florida, and I like the weather a lot, but
> I'll go where the work is: if you know any company (*especially*
> Independents) that is looking for a CO Tech, please tell me.
>
> Bill
>
Have you tried Telecom Careers at http://www.telecomcareers.net/
After I retired I wanted to work jobs when I wanted to and signed up
there. I do not use it much now since I am known within the
business I get calls all the time.
--
The only good spammer is a dead one!! Have you hunted one down today?
(c) 2011 I Kill Spammers, Inc. A Rot in Hell Co.
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 22:33:44 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Text error sends Scottish exam results a day early
Message-ID: <p0624081cca5fb57300f0@[10.0.1.4]>
Text error sends Scottish exam results a day early
Exam officials launch investigation after 30,000 students in Scotland
who opted to get grades by text were sent them early
Severin Carrell and Jessica Shepherd
The Guardian, Thursday 4 August 2011
Exam officials have launched an investigation after up to 30,000
students in Scotland who opted to get their grades by text message
were sent them on Wednesday, a day early by mistake.
Opposition leaders in the Scottish parliament said the blunder had
given these students a clear advantage in finding places at
university because the list of late courses available went live on
the internet at a minute past midnight on Thursday morning, nine
hours before the results were officially due to arrive.
...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/aug/04/text-error-scottish-exam-results
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 00:12:06 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Security Holes Found in Siemens Control Systems
Message-ID: <p06240827ca5fcc56f805@[10.0.1.4]>
Hard-Coded Password and Other Security Holes Found in Siemens Control Systems
By Kim Zette
August 3, 2011
LAS VEGAS - A security researcher has uncovered a slew of
vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems, including a
hard-coded password, that would let attackers reprogram the systems
with malicious commands to sabotage critical infrastructures and even
lock out legitimate administrators.
The vulnerabilities exist in several models of Siemens programmable
logic controllers, or PLCs - the same devices that were targeted by
the Stuxnet superworm and that are used in nuclear facilities and
other critical infrastructures, as well as in commercial
manufacturing plants that make everything from pharmaceuticals to
automobiles.
Stuxnet was discovered on systems in Iran last year and is believed
to have been aimed at destroying uranium-enrichment centrifuges at
the Natanz nuclear facility in that country. It targeted Siemens
Simatic Step7 software, which is used to monitor and program Siemens
PLCs. It then intercepted legitimate commands going from the Step7
system to PLCs and replaced them with malicious commands aimed at
sabotaging processes controlled by the PLC; in this case the spinning
of centrifuges.
The newly discovered vulnerabilities go a step further than Stuxnet,
however, in that they allow an attacker to communicate directly with
a Siemens PLC without needing to compromise, or even use, the Step7
software.
...
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/siemens-hardcoded-password/
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:48:44 -0700
From: dplatt@radagast.org (Dave Platt)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Wider-range cordless phones?
Message-ID: <sasog8-1ri.ln1@radagast.org>
> Which begs the question: which phone instruments are "qualified" for use
> in a full-use (sink, shower/tub, throne) bathroom?
At a local swimming-pool-supplies company (Leslie's) I saw a Uniden
DECT 6.0 phone which was advertised as being submersible... "meets JIS7
Waterproof Specifications". Suitable for using while you're floating
around in the pool on an inflated inner tube, or etc.
Unless you use a really harsh shampoo in your bathroom, one of these
would probably do just fine :-)
--
Dave Platt <dplatt@radagast.org> AE6EO
Friends of Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior
I do not wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will
boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 16:24:33 -0500
From: John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: OT: Has anyone heard from Pat? How is he doing?
Message-ID: <CALtjCnKETHHOBW_WgsRQF8Vcw6mtLR1nVp-hWM45qA4L8zdmyg@mail.gmail.com>
The subject says it all. I don't remember reading anything about him recently.
--
John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
Austin, Texas, USA
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