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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:56:20 +1100
From: David Clayton <dc33box-usenet@yahoo.com.au>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Every home needs its own IT guru
Message-ID: <pan.2012.01.30.06.56.19.542166@yahoo.com.au>
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:54:04 -0500, Monty Solomon wrote:
> Every home needs its own IT guru - Our growing number of gadgets
> means more questions for tech-savvy friends and family
And where are the instructions on how to avoid those questions that you
just KNOW are going to drain you like a vampire attached to your neck?
--
Regards, David.
David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a
measure of how many questions you have.
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:47:53 -0800
From: Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Config advice for asterisk?
Message-ID: <4F25E8B9.5090806@thadlabs.com>
On 1/28/2012 9:14 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
> Speaking of asterisk, can someone suggest a good source of configuration
> advice for asterisk?
[Moderator snip]
> Any suggestions where to find simple canned configs and related advice?
> I'm a reasonably competent programmer, so something that explained the
> programming model as well as giving examples would be nice.
I've been out of the business for 4 years now and am technically retired,
but I used to set up [among other things] asterisk VoIP systems with
interfaces to PRIs for small businesses which features probably the world's
best voice mail system and support for Cisco 7960 VoIP instruments, Polycom
IP4000 conference room phones, ATA analog adapters, etc.
Googling "asterisk configuration examples" returns some very useful
material, such as (among many others):
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Configuration+Examples
:-)
FYI, there are 3 versions of the O'Reilly asterisk book so far:
Asterisk, the future of telephony, 1st ed, 376 pages, September 2005
ISBN unknown -- my only copy is PDF
Asterisk, the future of telephony, 2nd ed, 604 pages, August 2007
Asterisk 1.4, ISBN-10: 0-596-51048-9, ISBN-13: 978-0-596-51048-0,
Asterisk, the definitive guide, 3rd ed, 734 pages, April 2011
Asterisk 1.8, ISBN: 978-0-596-51734-2
Also O'Reilly Asterisk Cookbook, 1st ed, 66 pages, April 2011
ISBN: 978-1-449-30382-2
And these two tomes:
Asterisk Hacking [Ben Jackson] (Elsevier) 2007,253 pages
ISBN 978-1-59749-151-8 comes with a CD (which I can't quickly find)
Asterisk for Dummies (Stephen Olejniczak (author of Telecom for Dummies))
(Wiley) 2007, ISBN 978-0-470-09854-7, 334 pages
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:17:27 -0700
From: Fred Atkinson <fatkinson.remove-this@and-this-too.mishmash.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Fiber Optics Connectors
Message-ID: <05b8576ddded1aeddc4222f00e68662a.squirrel@webmail.mishmash.com>
Folks,
I need to read up on fiber optics connectors.
I'm familiar with the LC, ST, and SC type connectors.
I understand that there are special connectors called APC (Angle
Polished Connectors) and I'd like to read up on when they are used.
Can someone recommend a book that explains APCs and some of the newer
connectors [those I have not listed here]?
Thanks,
Fred
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:10:46 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: FDA staffers sue agency over surveillance of personal e-mail
Message-ID: <p06240841cb4cbf407b44@[10.0.1.2]>
FDA staffers sue agency over surveillance of personal e-mail
By Ellen Nakashima and Lisa Rein, Published: January 29
The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal
e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned
Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that they
believed posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents
show.
The surveillance - detailed in e-mails and memos unearthed by six of
the scientists and doctors, who filed a lawsuit against the FDA in
U.S. District Court in Washington last week - took place over two
years as the plaintiffs accessed their personal Gmail accounts from
government computers.
Information garnered this way eventually contributed to the
harassment or dismissal of all six of the FDA employees, the suit
alleges. All had worked in an office responsible for reviewing
devices for cancer screening and other purposes.
Copies of the e-mails show that, starting in January 2009, the FDA
intercepted communications with congressional staffers and draft
versions of whistleblower complaints complete with editing notes in
the margins. The agency also took electronic snapshots of the
computer desktops of the FDA employees and reviewed documents they
saved on the hard drives of their government computers.
FDA computers post a warning, visible when users log on, that they
should have "no reasonable expectation of privacy" in any data
passing through or stored on the system, and that the government may
intercept any such data at any time for any lawful government purpose.
But in the suit, the doctors and scientists say the government
violated their constitutional privacy rights by gazing into personal
e-mail accounts for the purpose of monitoring activity that they say
was lawful.
...
(URL points to The Washington Post, which sometimes requires
registration to read the material - moderator)
http://goo.gl/ZmEzr
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fda-staffers-sue-agency-over-surveillance-of-personal-e-mail/2012/01/23/gIQAj34DbQ_story.html
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:16:26 +1100
From: David Clayton <dc33box-usenet@yahoo.com.au>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Scanning QR codes can infect your smartphone
Message-ID: <pan.2012.01.30.22.16.25.5823@yahoo.com.au>
Scanning QR codes can infect your smartphone
Stuart Corner
Monday, 30 January 2012 09:01
Your IT - Mobility
Cybercriminals are using QR codes to infect mobile phone with malware in a
rapidly growing mobile malware 'industry'
According to Australian security technology distributor AVG Technologies,
"Putting a malicious QR code sticker onto existing marketing material or
replacing a website's bona fide QR code with a malicious one could be
enough to trick many unsuspecting peopleâ?¦This new technique is expected
to gain momentum in 2012 and beyond, as the user does not know what lies
behind the QR code until the malware is already installed and running.
"For example a QR code could be used to download malware that directs the
phone to send text messages to premium SMS numbers.'
AVG says, in its Community Powered Threat Report for Q4 2011: "Malware
targeting mobile devices evolves frighteningly fast and has the potential
of being even more destructive than beforeâ?¦While consumers are going
mobile, so are the cyber criminals. We have witnessed the use of the same
malicious intent tactics targeting mobile devices: social engineering,
stolen or fake certificates to sign malware, root kits and other tactics."
AVG's CTO, Yuval Ben-Itzhak, said: "As phones become more like computers,
so do the risks. Many sophisticated tricks of the trade from computers are
now being repurposed for phones. However, as phones are often tied into
billing systems the gains can be far greater."
The report also warns that digital signatures attached to Android
applications offer little guarantee of trust "Stealing or faking a private
key of a trusted source (developer), will allow cyber criminals to sign
their malicious applications with the same key as the trusted developer,"
it says.
"By doing so, the cyber criminal could sign and distribute applications
that maliciously replace the authentic applications or corrupt them."
(URL points to a site that asks users to subscribe - moderator)
http://goo.gl/dwNm6
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http://www.itwire.com/your-it-news/mobility/52424-scanning-qr-codes-can-infect-your-smartphone
***** Moderator's Note *****
AVG has been known to overestimate the risks associated with the
various threats the company warns users about.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:10:46 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Google says one hour of video is now being uploaded to YouTube every second
Message-ID: <p06240843cb4cc4f0d08c@[10.0.1.2]>
Google says one hour of video is now being uploaded to YouTube every second
By - New Scientist
January 30
People who complain about some of the racier content on YouTube are
often told that the sheer rate at which that content is uploaded
makes it impossible to moderate. That claim would seem to be more
than borne out by the figures released recently by Google, YouTube's
owner.
The search giant's figures show that one hour of video is now being
uploaded to YouTube every second. That upload rate - equivalent to 60
hours of video per minute - represents an astonishing tenfold
increase from its 2007 rate.
...
(URL points to The Washington Post's online site, which sometimes
requires registration to read the material - moderator)
http://goo.gl/oximr
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/google-says-one-hour-of-video-is-now-being-uploaded-to-youtube-every-second/2012/01/27/gIQAtubBdQ_story.html
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