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The Telecom Digest for May 15, 2014
Volume 33 : Issue 83 : "text" Format
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Woman allegedly records own arrest, gets accused of wiretapping (Monty Solomon)
How a mayor's quest to unmask a foul-mouthed Twitter user blew up in his face (Monty Solomon)
'You Are Here' by Hiawatha Bray (Monty Solomon)
Orange confirms details of 1.3 million customers were stolen (Monty Solomon)

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:19:03 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Woman allegedly records own arrest, gets accused of wiretapping
Message-ID: <p06240830cf991d8e7f90@[10.0.1.3]>

Woman allegedly records own arrest, gets accused of wiretapping
Massachusetts wiretapping law prohibits secretly recording police.

by David Kravets
May 11 2014
Ars Technica

A Massachusetts woman faces charges of allegedly using a hidden 
mobile phone to audio-record her own suspicion-of-disorderly-conduct 
arrest.

...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/woman-allegedly-records-own-arrest-gets-accused-of-wiretapping/




Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:19:03 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: How a mayor's quest to unmask a foul-mouthed Twitter user blew up  in his face
Message-ID: <p0624082dcf991c4b33c4@[10.0.1.3]>

How a mayor's quest to unmask a foul-mouthed Twitter user blew up in his face
Angry backlash shows that online overreach won't "play in Peoria."

by Nate Anderson
May 13 2014
Ars Technica

When news broke that the mayor of Peoria, Illinois, had called upon 
his town's police force to shut down a fake Twitter account opened in 
his name; that local police had responded with search warrants 
against Twitter, Comcast, and Google; that they had at last raided a 
local home and seized four iPhones, four computers, two Xbox game 
consoles, an iPad, and a "large gold gift bag with five sandwich bags 
containing a green leafy substance;" that the homeowner hadn't 
created the account but was ultimately suspended from his job as a 
result of that "green leafy substance;" that Peoria's next city 
council meeting descended into outright acrimony over the 
heavy-handedness of the entire episode; and that the entire episode 
turned out to be a colossal waste of time and resources in which no 
one but the pot owner was ever charged with a crime-well, that's the 
moment at which a curious reporter files a public records act request 
to get a glimpse of how such a trainwreck got underway.

So I filed one-and the backstory I found was fascinating.

...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/how-a-mayors-quest-to-unmask-a-foul-mouthed-twitter-user-blew-up-in-his-face/




Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 23:16:50 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: 'You Are Here' by Hiawatha Bray
Message-ID: <p06240813cf988fa93daa@[10.0.1.3]>

BOOK REVIEW
'You Are Here' by Hiawatha Bray

By James Sullivan  | GLOBE CORRESPONDENT   MAY 13, 2014

Hiawatha Bray notes the price of the unprecedented convenience 
offered by a smartphone, beginning with our agreeing to "use your 
current location."

One of the signal books of the 1970s urged readers to "Be Here Now" - 
to be ever-present, according to the consciousness-raising ideals of 
the time.

If "You Are Here" is indicative of how we've arrived at the current 
era - technologically tethered as we've become - this new historical 
survey by veteran Globe reporter Hiawatha Bray makes a sobering case 
for our own complicity in creating a society where technology offers 
great benefits and conveniences but threatens individual privacy and 
independence.

"For much of human history," he writes, "it has been relatively easy 
to get lost." Ages ago, that was a terrifying prospect, but now it 
almost sounds like a welcome invitation. Bray's book describes the 
march of progress in mapping our own surroundings and how our search 
for ever-better surveillance has sometimes made us lose our way as we 
try to "find ourselves."

In deft detail, "You Are Here" chronicles the various innovations 
that have helped human beings guide themselves across the planet, 
from the primitive navigational tools of Polynesian sailors to the 
gyroscopes and GPS devices with which we've conquered the sea and 
air. In the smartphone age, however, we've made ourselves, not the 
rivers and mountains, "the primary geographic feature" of the 
landscape as we identify "the exact locations of billions of humans, 
their every move recorded and viewed by far too many eyes."

...

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2014/05/12/book-review-you-are-here-from-compass-gps-history-and-future-how-find-ourselves-hiawatha-bray/zvDMg169m2Py5wgF85ZkML/story.html




Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 07:33:37 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Orange confirms details of 1.3 million customers were stolen
Message-ID: <p06240821cf98fd06df68@[10.0.1.3]>

Orange confirms details of 1.3 million customers were stolen

8 May, 2014
Caroline Donnelly

Orange has warned people to be on their guard against phishing 
attacks after the personal details of 1.3 million of its customers 
were stolen by the hackers.

The French telecommunications group has confirmed the breach resulted 
in the victims' names, telephone numbers, birth dates and email 
addresses being compromised. The attack took place last month and was 
originally detected on 18 April, it added.

However, Orange has stressed that no credit card information or 
payment details were lifted during the breach.

...

http://www.itpro.co.uk/data-leakage/22202/orange-confirms-details-of-13-million-customers-were-stolen






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