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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:09:52 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery
Message-ID: <IST45.A.jHF.qBLOPB@telecom>
Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery
By NICOLE PERLROTH
February 10, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO - When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the
Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine
that seems straight from a spy film.
He leaves his cellphone and laptop at home and instead brings
"loaner" devices, which he erases before he leaves the United States
and wipes clean the minute he returns. In China, he disables
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, never lets his phone out of his sight and, in
meetings, not only turns off his phone but also removes the battery,
for fear his microphone could be turned on remotely. He connects to
the Internet only through an encrypted, password-protected channel,
and copies and pastes his password from a USB thumb drive. He never
types in a password directly, because, he said, "the Chinese are very
good at installing key-logging software on your laptop."
What might have once sounded like the behavior of a paranoid is now
standard operating procedure for officials at American government
agencies, research groups and companies that do business in China and
Russia - like Google, the State Department and the Internet security
giant McAfee. Digital espionage in these countries, security experts
say, is a real and growing threat - whether in pursuit of
confidential government information or corporate trade secrets.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/technology/electronic-security-a-worry-in-an-age-of-digital-espionage.html
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:56:58 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: The Curious Case of LightSquared vs. GPS
Message-ID: <jh43ra$adi$1@dont-email.me>
The Curious Case of LightSquared vs. GPS
By Erika Morphy
E-Commerce Times
Though opposition to LightSquared may fall short of meeting
conspiracy-theory criteria, it does seem as though everyone is ganging
up against the company. This week, it was not allowed to testify at a
congressional subcommittee hearing about its own troubled network.
Opponents delivered dire warnings that LightSquared's network could
interfere with GPS signals in a way that would jeopardize air safety.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74400.html
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