---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <qoi6ud$jqn$1@news.xmission.com> Date: 20 Oct 2019 17:53:17 -0000 From: "Kenny McCormack" <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Australia uses new technology to catch drivers on phones In article <barmar-53BF1D.12214902102019@reader.eternal-september.org>, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote: >In article <dc99535c-f82e-472c-b3db-6b293c46e858@googlegroups.com>, > "Tom Horne" <hornetd.remove-this@and-this-too.gmail.com> wrote: > >> For those of you who say it doesn't effect you, then you are part of the >> 0.5% of the population for which that is actually true. > > I'll bet far more than 0.5% claim it doesn't affect them, I wouldn't > be surprised if it's even a majority. > > Most of them are demonstrating the Dunning-Kruger effect. Just > because you *think* it doesn't affect you, it doesn't mean that's > true. I don't think it is Dunning-Kruger, per se. D-K refers to a very specific set of circumstances, that don't quite apply here. It is like a lot of things that come out of academia; a specific, academic principle, that gets transmogrified in the public consciousness to become something else. That all said, I don't at all disagree with your basic point, in fact, I think it is more extreme that you are putting it. I would put it this way: What percentage of the population would agree (publicly) with the following self-descriptive statement: "I am not capable of talking on my cell phone and safely driving a car at the same time." My guess is that that number is about 0.5% (if that). Note: When I say "agree with" above, I mean "and publicly admit to it", Many people might actually understand better but would never publicly admit it. It's all part of the marketing culture we live in, in which the guiding principle is that everybody has to "believe in themselves" (despite any/all indications to the contrary - that such belief is misguided). In fact, here in the US of A, our Fearless Leader is the very epitome of someone who believes in himself, despite massive evidence that such belief is misguided (to say the very least). -- Prayer has no place in the public schools, just like facts have no place in organized religion. -- Superintendent Chalmers ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191021123209.GA6161@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:32:09 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: The Government Is Wielding Sticks And Carrots To Address National Security Concerns In The Telecommunications Sector By John Dermody, Steve Bunnell, Theodore Kassinger, Greta Lichtenbaum and Lisa Monaco The security of information and communications technology, and particularly the supply chain that supports that technology, has become a major focus of the national security community. Recent reports suggest that the Department of Commerce will soon announce a ban on the acquisition and use of Huawei products and services by industries and consumers in the United States. This ban would be in addition to existing prohibitions on the federal government's acquisition and use of technology produced by Huawei and other Chinese technology manufacturers. http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=853364&email_access=on -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191021125405.GA6368@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:54:05 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Another cryptocurrency SIM-swap victim sues AT&T, this time for $1.8M Moonday Mornings: Another cryptocurrency SIM-swap victim sues AT&T, this time for $1.8M Cryptocurrency stolen, must get it back By Matthew Beedham Telecom operator AT&T is being sued by an individual claiming to be the victim of a SIM-swap hack which resulted in the loss of $1.8 million. The victim alleges that between May 16-18 AT&T employees transferred ownership of their SIM to bad actors. The scammers were then able to access the victim's personal finances and cryptocurrency exchange accounts to carry out their attack. It all sounds like history is repeating itself. https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/10/21/moonday-att-being-sued-1-8m-sim-swap-hack/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Tue, 22 Oct 2019