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The Telecom Digest for December 1, 2013
Volume 32 : Issue 237 : "text" Format
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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 00:29:36 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: A spurned techie's revenge: Locking down his ex's digital life
Message-ID: <p06240841cebf27db5edf@[10.0.1.4]>
A spurned techie's revenge: Locking down his ex's digital life
Revenge porn is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to
cyber-domestic abuse.
by Sean Gallagher
Nov 22 2013
Ars Technica
The e-mail's subject line was "Interested in hiring you." The sender,
a woman, said she had seen me on a local Baltimore news show talking
about revenge porn, and she was "interested in talking to you about
some work." She gave an office phone number, and her e-mail address
was from a large local hospital system, so I thought it might be for
some sort of speaking engagement.
It was anything but. When I contacted her, the woman told me her life
had been turned upside down by her ex-boyfriend. He had hacked her
phones, her voicemail, and her family's computer, and he was blocking
her out of her digital life. She was looking for someone to help her
regain control.
To some, those claims might sound like paranoia. But there are
thousands of incidents of this type of abusive use of technology
annually, perpetrated by (mostly male) spouses or partners. The most
public forms of tech-centered abuse, especially revenge porn, are
getting attention from legislators across the US right now. But these
incidents are not entirely new. For more than a decade, domestic
violence and "intimate partner" stalking and harassment have relied
heavily on technology.
The most recent comprehensive study on stalking and domestic
violence, conducted by the Department of Justice in 2006, found that
more than 887,000 people were aware that they were victims of cyber
stalking or electronic monitoring in that year alone. And that was a
year before the iPhone was released and well before the smartphone
boom really began.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/a-spurned-techies-revenge-locking-down-his-exs-digital-life/
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 01:09:41 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: LG smart TV snooping extends to home networks, second blogger says
Message-ID: <p06240845cebf31489448@[10.0.1.4]>
LG smart TV snooping extends to home networks, second blogger says
Internet-connected TVs from LG phone home with file names in shared folders.
by Dan Goodin
Nov 21 2013
Ars Technica
Smart TV from LG phones home with user's viewing habits, USB file names
It's not the premise of a sci-fi novel. Internet-connected TVs are
watching you now.
A second blogger has published evidence that his LG-manufactured
smart television is sharing sensitive user data with the Korea-based
company in a post that offers support for the theory that the
snooping isn't isolated behavior that affects a small number of sets.
In addition to transmitting a list of shows being watched and the
names of files contained on USB drives, the Internet-connected TV
also sent the names of files shared on home or office networks, the
blogger reported. He made the discovery after plugging the Wireshark
packet-sniffing program into his home network and noticing that an LG
TV-model number 42ls570, purchased in April-was transmitting file
names that sounded vaguely familiar even though there was no USB
drive plugged in.
"It turns out it was pulling filenames from my shared folders over
the network and broadcasting those instead," he wrote in a blog post
published Thursday. "I moved all the media out of the folder and put
a few duds in named 'GiantPorn,' turned the TV off and on and it was
still broadcasting the old filenames. The TV couldn't see those files
whilst browsing manually so I'd hazard a guess it's caching some of
these locally."
Within about 10 minutes, voilà. The name of the GiantPorn MPEG file
was transmitted to 193.67.216.135, an IP address belonging to LG
Electronics, according to Whois records.
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http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/lg-smart-tv-snooping-extends-to-home-networks-second-blogger-says/
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 00:36:55 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Secret Weapon in Mall Battle: Parking Apps
Message-ID: <p06240818cebdd857bb3d@[10.0.1.4]>
Secret Weapon in Mall Battle: Parking Apps
By JACLYN TROP
November 27, 2013
Phoebe Scott of Orange County, Calif., has a new routine before
heading to the mall.
She checks the parking lots on her ParkMe smartphone app "so that I
can see what I'm up against, or if I need to change my plans." If a
lot is below 90 percent full, the trip is on. Her favorite, not far
from her workplace, is a garage at the Santa Monica Place mall, where
sensors and lights guide her to a specific open space.
"It's a daily battle," said Ms. Scott, 29, the founder of Laudville,
a social technology start-up. "Anything to make it easier makes a
really big difference."
The fight for a mall parking spot, long a necessary evil of Black
Friday, is growing easier thanks to the proliferation of new
technologies, from apps and sensors to color-coded lights and
electronic boards.
It's one way that malls and shopping districts are trying to lure
customers away from their computers, into the realm of their
brick-and-mortar stores.
"What happens when there's no spots? People drive around and become
frustrated," said Kathy Grannis, a spokeswoman for the National
Retail Federation. "Who wants to start their shopping experience
frustrated?"
ParkMe, which tracks more than 28,000 locations worldwide, has
emerged as a mainstay app for mall customers navigating the nation's
parking lots. With the app, they can find the closest and least
expensive lots, as well as alternative garage entrances. The app's
user base surged 97 percent in the past year, and it is adding
hundreds of garages to its database.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/business/secret-weapon-in-mall-battle-parking-apps.html
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