32 Years of the Digest ... founded August 21, 1981
Add this Digest to your personal
or 
The Telecom Digest for September 30, 2013
Volume 32 : Issue 203 : "text" Format
====== 32 years of TELECOM Digest -- Founded August 21, 1981 ======
|
Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the
Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Bill Horne and
the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other
journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are
included in the fair use quote. By using any name or email address
included herein for any reason other than responding to an article
herein, you agree to pay a hundred dollars to that person, or email address
owner.
Addresses herein are not to be added to any mailing list, nor to be
sold or given away without the explicit written consent of the owner of
that address. Chain letters, viruses, porn, spam, and miscellaneous junk
are definitely unwelcome.
We must fight spam for the same reason we fight crime: not because we
are naive enough to believe that we will ever stamp it out, but because
we do not want the kind of world that results when no one stands
against crime. - Geoffrey Welsh
See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details
and the name of our lawyer, and other stuff of interest.
|
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:27:54 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: LAUSD halts home use of iPads for students after devices hacked
Message-ID: <p06240811ce6e13622ae1@[10.0.1.2]>
LAUSD halts home use of iPads for students after devices hacked
By Howard Blume
September 25, 2013
Following news that students at a Los Angeles high school had hacked
district-issued iPads and were using them for personal use, district
officials have halted home use of the Apple tablets until further
notice.
It took exactly one week for nearly 300 students at Theodore
Roosevelt High School to hack through security so they could surf the
Web on their new school-issued iPads, raising new concerns about a
plan to distribute the devices to all students in the district.
...
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lausd-ipad-hack-20130925,0,6974454.story
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:24:35 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: iPhone and iPad users report severe motion sickness while using iOS 7
Message-ID: <p0624080fce6e12ac001c@[10.0.1.2]>
iPhone and iPad users report severe motion sickness while using iOS 7
By Jacob Kastrenakes
September 25, 2013
The Verge
Apple's new design style in iOS 7 has had plenty of detractors, but
some may have genuine cause for complaint: the zooming and parallax
animations across the new operating system have been giving some
users bad cases of motion sickness. "The zoom animations ... are
literally making me nauseous and giving me a headache," Apple forum
user Ensorceled writes. "It's exactly how I used to get car sick if I
tried to read in the car." Other forum users are reporting feelings
of illness, eye pain, and dizziness as well.
...
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/25/4770818/ios-7-zooming-animations-causing-reports-of-severe-motion-sickness
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 12:30:07 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens
Message-ID: <p06240800ce6e05cefc21@[10.0.1.8]>
N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens
By JAMES RISEN and LAURA POITRAS
September 28, 2013
WASHINGTON - Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been
exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated
graphs of some Americans' social connections that can identify their
associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling
companions and other personal information, according to newly
disclosed documents and interviews with officials.
The spy agency began allowing the analysis of phone call and e-mail
logs in November 2010 to examine Americans' networks of associations
for foreign intelligence purposes after N.S.A. officials lifted
restrictions on the practice, according to documents provided by
Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor.
The policy shift was intended to help the agency "discover and track"
connections between intelligence targets overseas and people in the
United States, according to an N.S.A. memorandum from January 2011.
The agency was authorized to conduct "large-scale graph analysis on
very large sets of communications metadata without having to check
foreignness" of every e-mail address, phone number or other
identifier, the document said. Because of concerns about infringing
on the privacy of American citizens, the computer analysis of such
data had previously been permitted only for foreigners.
The agency can augment the communications data with material from
public, commercial and other sources, including bank codes, insurance
information, Facebook profiles, passenger manifests, voter
registration rolls and GPS location information, as well as property
records and unspecified tax data, according to the documents. They do
not indicate any restrictions on the use of such "enrichment" data,
and several former senior Obama administration officials said the
agency drew on it for both Americans and foreigners.
N.S.A. officials declined to say how many Americans have been caught
up in the effort, including people involved in no wrongdoing. The
documents do not describe what has resulted from the scrutiny, which
links phone numbers and e-mails in a "contact chain" tied directly or
indirectly to a person or organization overseas that is of foreign
intelligence interest.
The new disclosures add to the growing body of knowledge in recent
months about the N.S.A.'s access to and use of private information
concerning Americans, prompting lawmakers in Washington to call for
reining in the agency and President Obama to order an examination of
its surveillance policies. Almost everything about the agency's
operations is hidden, and the decision to revise the limits
concerning Americans was made in secret, without review by the
nation's intelligence court or any public debate. As far back as
2006, a Justice Department memo warned of the potential for the
"misuse" of such information without adequate safeguards.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/us/nsa-examines-social-networks-of-us-citizens.html
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:10:27 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Dunkin' salutes National Coffee Day with free Joe for folks who down-load the Dunkin' app to their smartphones
Message-ID: <p0624080bce6e0ed419a3@[10.0.1.2]>
Dunkin' salutes National Coffee Day with free Joe for folks who
down-load the Dunkin' app to their smartphones
By Chris Reidy / Globe Staff / September 27, 2013
Sunday is National Coffee Day this year, and Dunkin' Donuts is not
about to let such a red-letter day go by without a salute to caffeine.
In this case, the Canton-based coffee-and-baked-goods chain plans to
give away free small cups of hot or iced coffee to folks who have
downloaded the Dunkin' app to their iPhones, iPod Touch devices, or
smartphones that use Google's Android operating system. The offer is
good only on Sept. 29 at participating stores.
And the deal is: No app, no free Joe.
...
http://www.boston.com/business/news/2013/09/27/dunkin-salutes-national-coffee-day-with-free-joe-for-folks-who-down-load-the-dunkin-app-their-smartphones/uaPrMsI3SWXbZrmy5NzuFL/story.html
Dunkin' Donuts Celebrates National Coffee Day
http://www.dunkindonuts.com/DDBlog/2013/09/dunkin_donuts_celeb0.html
September 29: FREE Coffee Through Dunkin' Mobile App
On September 29, we're treating our guests to a FREE small hot or
iced Dunkin' Donuts coffee at participating DD restaurants throughout
the United States. The offer is available and redeemable only on
National Coffee Day through the "My Offers" tab of the Dunkin' Mobile
App, which is available for both iPhone and Android mobile devices.
TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecom-
munications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in
addition to Usenet, where it appears as the moderated newsgroup
'comp.dcom.telecom'.
TELECOM Digest is a not-for-profit, mostly non-commercial educational
service offered to the Internet by Bill Horne. All the contents
of the Digest are compilation-copyrighted. You may reprint articles in
some other media on an occasional basis, but please attribute my work
and that of the original author.
The Telecom Digest is moderated by Bill Horne.
This Digest is the oldest continuing e-journal about telecomm-
unications on the Internet, having been founded in August, 1981 and
published continuously since then. Our archives are available for
your review/research. We believe we are the oldest e-zine/mailing list
on the internet in any category!
URL information: http://telecom-digest.org
Copyright (C) 2013 TELECOM Digest. All rights reserved.
Our attorney is Bill Levant, of Blue Bell, PA.
Finally, the Digest is funded by gifts from generous readers such as
yourself who provide funding in amounts deemed appropriate. Your help
is important and appreciated. A suggested donation of fifty dollars
per year per reader is considered appropriate. See our address above.
Please make at least a single donation to cover the cost of processing
your name to the mailing list.
All opinions expressed herein are deemed to be those of the
author. Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only
and messages should not be considered any official expression by the
organization.
End of The Telecom Digest (4 messages)
Return to Archives ** Older Issues