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Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:32:42 -0500
From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Pakistan halts phone service over terror fear
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1211240031400.10583@panix5.panix.com>
[Al Jazeera]
Pakistan halts phone service over terror fear
Pakistan has suspended mobile phone services in major cities, a move
officials say is necessary to prevent terror attacks from marring Shia
Muslim processions.
"All the blasts that occurred within the last 15 days were mobile-phone
based," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters on Friday.
Mobile and wireless phone services were temporarily blocked in the
commercial capital Karachi, the southwestern city of Quetta and in parts
of the capital.
The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) said the suspension was
likely to continue until Ashura, the climax of the month of Muharram, on
Sunday.
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rest:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/11/20121123234251241975.html
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Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:15:40 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: The Shrewd Shopper Carries a Smartphone
Message-ID: <p0624088cccd5ec3ada97@[10.0.1.10]>
The Shrewd Shopper Carries a Smartphone
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
November 22, 2012
This Black Friday, to the tech-aware go the spoils.
Retailers are trying to lure shoppers away from the Internet, where
they have increasingly been shopping to avoid Black Friday madness,
and back to the stores. The bait is technological tools that will
make shopping on the busiest day of the year a little more sane - and
give shoppers an edge over their competition.
Those with smartphones in hand will get better planning tools, prices
and parking spots. Walmart has a map that shows shoppers exactly
where the top Black Friday specials can be found. A Mall of America
Twitter feed gives advice on traffic and gifts, and the Macy's app
sends special deals for every five minutes a shopper stays in a store.
"The crazy mad rush to camp out and the crazy mad rush to hit the
doorbusters have really made people think, 'I'm just going to stay
home on Black Friday,' " said Carey Rossi, editor in chief of
ConsumerSearch.com, a review site. "This is going to invite some
people back and say, 'You know what? It doesn't have to be that
crazy.' "
Part of the retailers' strategy is to slap back at online stores like
Amazon.com, which last year used apps to pick off shoppers as they
browsed in physical stores. But the stores are also recognizing that
shopping on the Friday after Thanksgiving need not require an
overnight wait in line, a helmet and elbow pads. A smartphone gives
shoppers enough of an edge.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/23/technology/the-shrewd-shopper-carries-a-smartphone-on-black-friday.html
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http://goo.gl/sSYMa
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:51:21 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Errata Security: You are committing a crime right now
Message-ID: <p06240890ccd60cb777bf@[10.0.1.10]>
You are committing a crime right now
Posted by Robert David Graham (@ErrataRob)
November 20, 2012
Are you reading this blog? If so, you are committing a crime under 18
USC 1030(a) (better known as the "Computer Fraud & Abuse Act" or
"CFAA"). That's because I did not explicitly authorize you to access
this site, but you accessed it anyway. Your screen has a resolution
of 1440x900. I know this, because (with malice aforethought) I
clearly violated 18 USC 1030(a)(5)(A) by knowingly causing the
transmission of JavaScript code to your browser to discover this
information.
So we are all going to jail together.
That's silly, you say, because that's not what the law means. Well,
how do you know what the law means? The law is so vague that it's
impossible to tell.
The CFAA was written in 1986. Back then, to access a computer, you
had to have an explicit user account and password. It was therefore
easy to tell whether access was authorized or not. But then the web
happened, and we started accessing computers all over the world
without explicit authorization.
So, without user accounts or other form of explicit authorization,
how do we tell if access to a website is "authorized" or not?
...
http://erratasec.blogspot.de/2012/11/you-are-committing-crime-right-now.html
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