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The Telecom Digest for March 8, 2014
Volume 33 : Issue 41 : "text" Format
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Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 13:43:30 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Centurylink outages reported
Message-ID: <lfd40k$8j4$1@dont-email.me>
The Seattle Times Blogs
The Today File
An outage for CenturyLink users has been reported in the Seattle area,
affecting Internet, phone and television services.
Outages have been reported in more than 20 other states, according to
Downdetector.com.
Rest at:
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/01/outage-affecting-centurylink-users-in-seattle-area/
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http://goo.gl/N9F8aO
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Bill Horne
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I am changing my name to Crysler
I am going down to Washington D.C.
I will tell some power broker what you did for Iococca
Would be perfectly acceptable to me
- Tom Paxton
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:11:40 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: CenturyLink phone outage caused by copper thief
Message-ID: <lfd5ld$tef$1@dont-email.me>
CenturyLink phone outage caused by copper thief
KIRO-TV
Video report of an alleged copper thief, who was caught napping.
http://www.kirotv.com/videos/news/centurylink-phone-outage-caused-by-copper-thief/vF3Hr/
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http://goo.gl/FiD0Yo
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Bill Horne
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Now he's got a woman at home
He's got another woman down the hall
He seems to want me anyway
Why'd you have to get so drunk
And lead me on that way
- Joni Mitchell
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:15:29 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: CenturyLink applies new fee to customer bills
Message-ID: <lfd5si$hn$1@dont-email.me>
The Denver Post
by Andy Vuong
Colorado's largest telephone company is adding a new fee to monthly
phone bills, one it classifies as a "non-telecom services surcharge."
CenturyLink said the $1.55 monthly fee is related to voicemail and
inside wiring maintenance. The company states on its website that only
customers who subscribe to those services will be required to pay the
surcharge. Inside wiring maintenance covers the "repair or replacement
of damaged inside wiring or jacks."
http://blogs.denverpost.com/techknowbytes/2014/02/14/centurylink-add-1-55-non-telecom-services-surcharge-colorado-bills-march/13132/
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http://goo.gl/kYExqD
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Bill Horne
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One generation got old
One generation got soul
This generation got no destination to hold
Pick up the cry
- Jefferson Airplane
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 10:39:22 -0800 (PST)
From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: California Yellow pages firm sues phone giant AT&T
Message-ID: <9a492fb0-3e4d-420c-a7ec-ca216abc4340@googlegroups.com>
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 9:49:04 PM UTC-5, Bill Horne wrote:
> The lawsuit filed by Fresno-based Valley Yellow Pages says a rival phone
> book run by AT&T and Cerberus Capital Management LP are offering
> illegal, secret discounts to advertisers. The lawsuit seeks an end to
> the alleged practice and unspecified damages.
I'm no lawyer, but at first this article seemed strange to me because
businesses offer private discounts all the time to selected customers.
One sentence in the linked article said:
"The laws Alldredge accuses AT&T and its partners of breaking stem from the
1930s and were written to keep large national companies from anticompetitive
and fraudulent behavior used to crush smaller businesses."
That leads me to two key questions:
1) Is today's AT&T still considered a "large national company"? Obviously the
old Bell System AT&T fell into that category, but since divestiture does it
still fit? Verizon is a very large company. Further, the yellow pages
marketplace overall has greatly declined, along with telephone directories in
general, as users make use of the Internet instead. Given all that, it would
seem AT&T's alleged marketplace dominance isn't as big as claimed. In another
example, today IBM competes in services that it was once prohibited from doing
due to anit-trust laws.
2) In today's free-wheeling deregulated business atmosphere, are those old
1930s laws still applicable? For instance, in the 1930s, banks were strictly
limited in size and function, but today they can be nation-wide, offering a
variety of financial services. Likewise, many other businesses have evolved
into national powerhouses, squeezing out smaller players. Many "big box"
retail store chains have destroyed modest sized "Main Street" businesses.
Today, tough competition is perceived as a good thing--the marketplace doing
its job.
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:30:18 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: New attack on HTTPS crypto might reveal if you're pregnant or have cancer
Message-ID: <lfd6oc$a9c$1@dont-email.me>
Ars Technica
Scientist-devised technique determines precise address of SSL-protected
websites.
by Dan Goodin
As the most widely used technology to prevent eavesdropping on the
Internet, HTTPS encryption has seen its share of attacks, most of which
work by exploiting weaknesses that allow snoops to decode
cryptographically scrambled traffic. Now there's a novel technique that
can pluck out details as personal as someone's sexual orientation or a
contemplation of suicide, even when the protection remains intact.
A recently published academic paper titled "I Know Why You Went to the
Clinic: Risks and Realization of HTTPS Traffic Analysis" shows how even
strongly encrypted Web traffic can reveal highly personal information to
employers, Internet service providers, state-sponsored spies, or anyone
else with the capability to monitor a connection between a site and the
person visiting it. As a result, it's possible for them to know with a
high degree of certainty what video someone accessed on Netflix or
YouTube, the specific tax form or legal advice someone sought from an
online lawyer service, and whether someone visiting the Mayo Clinic
website is viewing pages related to pregnancy, headaches, cancer, or
suicide.
Rest at:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/03/new-attack-on-https-crypto-might-know-if-youre-pregnant-or-have-cancer/
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http://goo.gl/z3EyvI
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Bill Horne
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Hoping they don't mind a little advice in rhyme
You'll find in life or revolution rarely is there a quick solution
Anything worthwhile takes a lot of time
- Pete Seeger
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