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The Telecom Digest for November 13, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 265 : "text" Format
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Did Skype Give a Private Company Data on Teen WikiLeaks Supporter Without a Warrant? (Monty Solomon)
20 years of GSM digital mobile phones (Monty Solomon)

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Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:10:30 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Did Skype Give a Private Company Data on Teen WikiLeaks Supporter  Without a Warrant?
Message-ID: <p06240801ccc5be9cbacb@[10.0.1.6]>

Did Skype Give a Private Company Data on Teen WikiLeaks Supporter 
Without a Warrant?

By Ryan Gallagher
Nov. 9, 2012

Skype's privacy credentials took a hit in July over a refusal to 
comment on whether it could eavesdrop on conversations. Now the 
Internet chat service is facing another privacy-related 
backlash-after allegedly handing over user data without a warrant to 
a private security firm investigating pro-WikiLeaks activists.

The explosive details were contained in a report by Dutch 
investigative journalist Brenno de Winter, published on NU.nl earlier 
this week. Citing an internal police file detailing an investigation 
called "Operation Talang," Winter wrote that PayPal was attempting to 
track down activists affiliated with the hacker collective Anonymous. 
The hackers had attacked the PayPal website following the company's 
controversial decision to block payments to WikiLeaks in December 
2010.

...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/11/09/skype_gave_data_on_a_teen_wikileaks_supporter_to_a_private_company_without.html

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http://goo.gl/ENUvy




Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:02:03 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: 20 years of GSM digital mobile phones
Message-ID: <p06240813ccc624fbb92f@[10.0.1.6]>

20 years of GSM digital mobile phones
How far the cellphone has come since the Nokia 1011

By Caleb Cox
9 November 2012
The Register

Twenty years ago today, on 9 November 1992, Nokia launched the 
world's first commercially available GSM digital mobile phone - the 
Nokia 1011 - strengthening consumer interest in the world of mobile 
connectivity. The candybar device - which weighed a whopping 475g and 
could sustain a conversation for no more than 90 minutes - also 
introduced text messaging, viewable on the handset's two-line display.

Those that rushed off to buy one were blissfully unaware of how much 
their handsets would evolve over the next two decades. The notion 
that a phone could become the central hub of their lives would have 
been considered outlandish. Here then are of the of the most 
significant milestones reached in the digital mobile era.

...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/09/20_years_of_gsm_digital_phones/






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