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The Telecom Digest for June 9, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 139 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
What Pogue Actually Bought (Monty Solomon)
Police: mobile software hack defeating anti-theft measure (Monty Solomon)
LinkedIn app under scrutiny for transferring iOS calendar entries (Monty Solomon)
Ad Networks Bypass iPhone Privacy Rules (Monty Solomon)
Re: Haverhill teen to serve year in jail for fatal texting crash; judge calls for people to keep eyes on road (Adam H. Kerman)

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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 13:43:22 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: What Pogue Actually Bought
Message-ID: <p062408b0cbf7ea0053eb@[10.0.1.2]>

What Pogue Actually Bought

David Pogue
JUNE 7, 2012

I get plenty of reader e-mail, and if I had to graph the question 
categories, "What should I buy?" would be the tallest bar by far.

If you could hold your finger down on that bar to explode it into 
sub-bars, "What do you own?" would be a pretty tall one. Imagine, in 
other words, if your job let you test and try every single brand of 
camera, tablet, phone, laptop and GPS, which would you buy for you 
and your own family?

That's why, every couple of years, I write the following post: What 
Pogue Actually Bought. Hope it's useful to somebody.

...

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/what-pogue-actually-bought/




Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 10:12:19 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Police: mobile software hack defeating anti-theft measure
Message-ID: <p062408a1cbf7b86db57a@[10.0.1.2]>

Police: mobile software hack defeating anti-theft measure

A Ukrainian group has a worldwide network of resellers to reset 
IMEI numbers.

by Cyrus Farivar
June 8 2012

For over a year now, a French law has provided a means for law 
enforcement to block stolen phones and prevent them from being used. 
French mobile phone users are encouraged to record their IMEI number 
online with authorities as a precautionary measure. Once a phone is 
reported stolen to the police, operators are required to transmit the 
unique IMEI number on each phone to a European bank in Dublin, 
Ireland. Then, this bank is supposed to block usage of that phone, 
rendering it unusable.

The French newspaper Le Monde (Google Translate) reports that mobile 
theft in France has dropped 20 percent between April 2011 and April 
2012, suggesting that this measure has been somewhat effective.

However, the Paris police department has now announced that it has 
discovered the use of software called Z3X, which has apparently been 
found in 50 mobile phone shops in eastern Paris. Z3X is a 
Ukrainian-made tool that offers what appears to be a specific way to 
reset IMEI numbers on various specific phones, including models of 
Samsung, LG, NEC and other phones. The group has listed resellers 
scattered across the United States, Europe, Russia, Ukraine and Libya.

...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/police-mobile-software-hack-defeating-anti-theft-measure/




Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 10:48:28 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: LinkedIn app under scrutiny for transferring iOS calendar entries
Message-ID: <p062408a6cbf7c012802f@[10.0.1.2]>

LinkedIn app under scrutiny for transferring iOS calendar entries

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/06/06/linkedin_app_under_scrutiny_for_transferring_ios_calendar_entries.html

LinkedOut - A LinkedIn Privacy Issue

http://blog.skycure.com/2012/06/linkedout-linkedin-privacy-issue.html#!/2012/06/linkedout-linkedin-privacy-issue.html

LinkedIn's Leaky Mobile App Has Access to Your Meeting Notes

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/linkedins-leaky-mobile-app-has-access-to-your-meeting-notes/

More about our mobile calendar feature

http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/06/06/mobile-calendar-feature/




Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 10:42:23 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Ad Networks Bypass iPhone Privacy Rules
Message-ID: <p062408a5cbf7bf9c6481@[10.0.1.2]>

Ad Networks Bypass iPhone Privacy Rules

By JOEL SCHECTMAN And JESSICA E. VASCELLARO
June 5, 2012

Mobile ad networks are using new techniques to target iPhone users by 
circumventing Apple Inc.'s earlier efforts to protect user privacy.

Apple last summer said it would stop allowing app makers to use a 
unique identifier embedded in iPhones and iPads to track users as 
they move from app to app, which is an important way for advertisers 
to position their ads for appropriate audiences.

To avoid the limits of Apple's rules, ad networks that serve 
advertisements within mobile apps have started using new identifiers 
that collect information like location and preferences as the user 
moves across apps. One of the tracking systems is based on a unique 
identifier located in the iPhone's wireless networking hardware-a 
system known as Open Device Identification Number, or ODIN. The other 
prominent tracking alternative, called OpenUDID, uses the device's 
built-in copy-and-paste function.

These networks claim they will lose millions of dollars a week in 
revenue unless they can gather personal data from users to better 
target them. Privacy advocates argue these new techniques could allow 
marketers to identify individuals and violate unsuspecting users' 
privacy.

...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303552104577440492478901490.html




Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 04:16:00 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re:  Haverhill teen to serve year in jail for fatal  texting crash;  judge calls for people to keep eyes on road
Message-ID: <jqrua0$tcs$1@news.albasani.net>

>Haverhill teen to serve year in jail for fatal texting crash; judge 
>calls for people to keep eyes on road

>By Brian R. Ballou and John R. Ellement, Globe Staff
>6/6/2012

>HAVERHILL - Saying he was sending a message of deterrence to 
>Massachusetts drivers, District Court Judge Stephen Abany today 
>imposed maximum sentences on Haverhill teen Aaron Deveau for causing 
>a fatal crash by texting while driving.

[Moderator snip]

Wow. He'll serve a year at the county jail for taking a human life.
So that's what deterrence smells like.






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