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| Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 03:26:05 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon's New, Encrypted Calling App Comes Pre-Hacked for the NSA
Message-ID: <m6e8qe$rou$1@dont-email.me>
Verizon is the latest big company to enter the post-Snowden market for
secure communication, and it's doing so with an encryption standard that
comes with a way for law enforcement to access ostensibly secure phone
conversations.
Verizon Voice Cypher, the product introduced on Thursday with the
encryption company Cellcrypt, offers business and government customers
end-to-end encryption for voice calls on iOS, Android, or BlackBerry
devices equipped with a special app. The encryption software provides
secure communications for people speaking on devices with the app,
regardless of their wireless carrier, and it can also connect to an
organization's secure phone system.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-11/verizons-new-encrypted-calling-app-comes-prehacked-for-the-nsa
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Bill Horne
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| Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 19:18:34 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Data sent between phones and smartwatches wide open to hackers
Message-ID: <5AA7E488-2B51-4FFA-A505-E6203CB9EDFD@roscom.com>
Data sent between phones and smartwatches wide open to hackers
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/connections-between-phones-and-smartwatches-wide-open-to-brute-force-hacks/
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| Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 09:45:48 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon downplays impact of net neutrality rules
Message-ID: <m6hje9$k7t$1@dont-email.me>
by Brian Fung
One of the key arguments put forward by the broadband industry in
opposing federal regulation is that it would cause an enormous economic
fallout. Aggressive oversight, Internet service providers argue, would
raise costs for consumers and force telecom companies to stop investing
in their networks. They wouldn't be able to offer new services or faster
speeds.
In plain English, this roughly boils down to: "Leave us alone, or the
average American gets hurt."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/12/10/verizon-actually-strong-net-neutrality-rules-wont-affect-our-network-investment/
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http://goo.gl/BCtDFV
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Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
And you to whom adversity has dealt a final blow
With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go
Turn to and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again
- Stan Rogers
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| Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:09:15 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: AT&T, Verizon tax breaks fail to produce jobs
Message-ID: <m6hkq8$pik$1@dont-email.me>
By THOMAS GRYTA
With Congress poised to extend a raft of tax breaks, consider this: One
such break has helped AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. slash
their recent tax bills by billions of dollars without leading to the
intended increase in investment or jobs.
The measure, known as "bonus depreciation," lets companies offset their
income with investments they have made more quickly. It was enacted in
2008 as part of the economic stimulus package with the goal of giving
companies an incentive to build more factories or upgrade more
equipment, creating jobs and giving a boost to sluggish economic growth
in the process.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-t-verizon-tax-breaks-fail-to-produce-jobs-1418345589
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http://goo.gl/QySU3f
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Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
But when you roar at the income tax
And the slippery bureaucratic hacks
And the ancient political fishlike smell
And assert that the world is going to hell ...
- Ogden Nash
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| Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 09:53:35 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon, VITA upgrade phone passwords after breach
Message-ID: <m6hjsr$ls6$1@dont-email.me>
by Andrew Cain
Verizon has worked with the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to
upgrade phone passwords at state agencies that use the Verizon Hosted IP
Centrex phone service after someone apparently hacked into the system in
August and made unauthorized calls.
On Aug. 3, Verizon notified VITA of 26 suspect phone calls that totaled
73 minutes of use were made on Aug. 1 between 9 and 11:42 p.m., said
Janice Akers of VITA.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/state-regional/verizon-vita-upgrade-phone-passwords-after-breach/article_94883c17-61a8-5e5e-a624-3277bd73254b.html
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http://goo.gl/7Zn5Cw
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Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
I was bought by a man named Ray
A card-carrying member of the NRA
But he left me out in his car one day
And now the finger on my trigger hasn't seen its sixteenth birthday
- Ellis Paul
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| Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:30:15 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: In Twin Cities, Centurylink fiber rollout not quite up to speed
Message-ID: <m6hm1j$u4l$1@dont-email.me>
by Julio Ojeda-Zapata
CenturyLink is mum on when its previously promised fiber-optic
gigabit-per-second Internet service will roll out across St. Paul and
Minneapolis.
But readers have been digging up tantalizing clues.
The latest comes from Blake Haas, who thinks he figured out the extent
of CenturyLink’s fiber-optic deployments by using Web-mapping tools.
http://blogs.twincities.com/yourtechweblog/2014/12/11/centurylink-fiber-clues-reader/
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http://goo.gl/Y5Aoel
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Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
There's a hundred-thousand Frenchmen in New Orleans
In New Orleans there are Frenchmen everywhere
But your house could fall down
Your baby could drown
Wouldn't none of those Frenchmen care
- Randy Newman
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