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The Telecom Digest for February 3, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 34 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
The Apple Bug That Let Us Spy on a Total Stranger's iPhone (Monty Solomon)
A picture is worth a thousand words (Bill Horne)
Tiff over LightSquared reveals odd partnership (Bill Horne)

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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 21:06:29 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: The Apple Bug That Let Us Spy on a Total Stranger's iPhone
Message-ID: <6bTe7B.A.DOC.vWpKPB@telecom>

The Apple Bug That Let Us Spy on a Total Stranger's iPhone

BY SAM BIDDLE
FEB 1, 2012

Every single iMessage to and from this man's iPhone - his friends call
him Wiz - has been sent to us by accident. We know about his job, sex
life, and address. Apple, you might want to fix this.

The story is simple: a friend's son had some trouble with his iPhone
4. Being an awesome mom, our friend took it into the Apple Store when
her kid was at school. School. Not college or grad school, but
I'm-under-18 school. When she got it back, her kid's phone was in
perfect working order - but it had also become a portal into another
man's private life. No matter how many times we've reset the phone and
entered our friend's information, every incoming and outgoing iMessage
meant for Wiz shows up on her child's phone. His phone had become her
son's phone - and there was an iMessage bevy of stuff you wouldn't
want your child to see.

The problem of iMessages winding up on the wrong screens isn't new -
we mentioned it back in December. At the time, the worry was that
iPhone thieves could pry into your private communications. But that's
not what's going on here - this is like a wiretap we didn't ask for -
and Wiz has no idea I'm looped in on the whole thing. He texts
throughout the day like usual, oblivious to the snooping. Now we see
just how big of a deal this obscure "bug" is: Your entire personal
life could be flung open, and you'd never know.

Take our word for it - we've gotten to know Wiz pretty well.

...

http://gizmodo.com/5880593/the-apple-bug-that-let-us-spy-on-a-total-strangers-iphone




Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:20:08 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: A picture is worth a thousand words 
Message-ID: <jgfg8p$c2c$1@dont-email.me>

Rule number one: never get a cartoonist mad at you.
Rule number two: never get a friend of a cartoonist mad at you.

Please look at this link:

http://xkcd.com/verizon/

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)




Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:08:35 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Tiff over LightSquared reveals odd partnership 
Message-ID: <jgffj3$8t1$1@dont-email.me>

by Stephen Lawson
Computerworld

Tiff over LightSquared reveals odd partnership

Harbinger's Falcone, who started the carrier, took advice from a
software executive but kept his distance

IDG News Service - LightSquared founder Philip Falcone's response to
ethics allegations by a U.S. senator sheds some light on a strange
chapter in the carrier's ongoing bid to build a controversial cellular
data network.

In a Jan. 23 letter, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa accused Falcone of
hinting he could help out the senator in return for his softening an
investigation of LightSquared's dealings with the U.S. Federal
Communications Commission (FCC). As part of his allegation, Grassley
said a software executive had contacted his office and all but offered
to build a data center in Iowa if Grassley left LightSquared alone.

Rest at:

http://goo.gl/mhvX9

-or-

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223943/Tiff_over_LightSquared_reveals_odd_partnership

Bill

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)






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