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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:18:58 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Spring Break Gets Tamer as World Watches Online
Message-ID: <p06240823cb88a7cb868f@[10.0.1.4]>
Spring Break Gets Tamer as World Watches Online
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
March 16, 2012
KEY WEST, Fla. - Ah, Spring Break, with its copious debauchery, its
spontaneous bouts of breast-baring, Jager bombing and après-binge
vomit.
In this era of "Jersey Shore" antics and "Girls Gone Wild," where
bikini tops vanish like unattended wallets, it would seem natural to
assume that this generation of college student has outdone the spring
break hordes of decades past on the carousal meter.
But today's spring breakers - at least some of them - say they have
been tamed, in part, not by parents or colleges or the fed-up cities
they invade, but by the hand-held gizmos they hold dearest and the
fear of being betrayed by an unsavory, unsanctioned photo or video
popping up on Facebook or YouTube.
Late one March evening at Rick's Bar on rum-soaked Duval Street,
college students alternated Jell-O shots with iPhone shots.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/us/spring-break-gets-tamer-as-world-watches-online.html
***** Moderator's Note *****
Ah, at last: the second wave of electronic awareness. Users are
moderating their behavior based on past experience, and next (dare we
hope?) they will think about the information being gathered by others,
and how it's being used.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:11:24 +0000 (UTC)
From: wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Inside the Stratfor Attack
Message-ID: <jjtpec$5pk$1@grapevine.csail.mit.edu>
In article <c_KdnYDBEdCk_v_SnZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d@posted.nuvoxcommunications>,
Robert Bonomi <bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
>If the attacks were conducted by citizens of Ireland and England, who
>arrested them? Are those countries party to a treaty that makes their
>citizens subject to U.S. law?
The United States has extradition treaties with many other countries.
The "hacking" took place on machines located within the United States,
against a U.S. corporation, so no extraterritoriality is implied.
-GAWollman
--
Garrett A. Wollman | What intellectual phenomenon can be older, or more oft
wollman@bimajority.org| repeated, than the story of a large research program
Opinions not shared by| that impaled itself upon a false central assumption
my employers. | accepted by all practitioners? - S.J. Gould, 1993
***** Moderator's Note *****
The real question is whether Ireland and Great Britain should be
willing to surrender their citizens to draconian penalties and
interminable prison terms, when what Anonymous really did was mostly
embarrass a few powerful companies that should have paid more
attention to security.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:49:11 -0500
From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Inside the Stratfor Attack
Message-ID: <BdWdnVgq9IyqJf_SnZ2dnUVZ_sydnZ2d@posted.nuvoxcommunications>
In article <c_KdnYDBEdCk_v_SnZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d@posted.nuvoxcommunications>,
Robert Bonomi <bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
>In article <p0624080fcb87924fa308@[10.0.1.4]>,
>>
>>***** Moderator's Note *****
>>
>>Is Ms. Perlroth referring to the "Anonymous" hackers, or was the
>>Stratfor attack conducted by a different group?
>
>Yes, it was the 'anonymous' gang.
>
>***** Moderator's Note *****
>
>If the attacks were conducted by citizens of Ireland and England, who
>arrested them? Are those countries party to a treaty that makes their
>citizens subject to U.S. law?
The legal issue is where the crime occurred. The laws of that
jurisdiction apply.
I believe that a violation of, say, 18 USC 1030 is deemed to occur where
the computer(s) in question is(are) located. Thus, U.S. law enforcement
can file a criminal complaint/indictment in U.S. Courts, even if the perp
is extra-territorial -- his acts in 'touching' the computer 'inside' the
U.S. is sufficient -- according to U.S. law -- to give the U.S. courts
"jurisdiction" over him. Then it is simply a matter of bringing the
purported perpetrator before said court for trial.
There -are- extradition treaties in place between a lot of countries
that do apply in such situations. Thus 'local' law-enforcement could
take the alleged perp(s) into custody pending extradition.
The alleged perps may also have violated 'domestic' laws concerning,
say, 'receiving stolen property' -- with the evidence developed by "the
F.B.I. and others" being sufficient to support local charges in that
jurisdiction as well.
This is all a matter of long-established legal principles, and practice.
The NY Times article is lacking in 'technical details' of the arrests,
so anything based on that is 'speculation".
Some subsequent digging shows that those arrested used the collective
name of "LulzSec", which is described as "*an* operating arm of the
hacking organization known as 'Anonymous''.
Of the six persons arrested, two are residents of the U.S., two resided
in the United Kingdom, and two reside in Ireland.
All six face multiple charges in the U.S, prosecution being coordinated
by the U.S. Atty for the Southern District of New York.
The two U.K. residents face separate charges in the U.K., and at least
one of the Ireland residents appears to be facing local charges there.
Googling for 'lulzsec' and 'f.b.i.' brings up a bunch of more detailed
coverage.
***** Moderator's Note *****
The NY Times article was a once-over-lightly fluff piece, with no
background, no research, and lots of scare tactics. The EFFA_BEE_EYE is
coming to get you if you embarrass the big boys! The EFFA_BEE_EYE will
reach out to anyone who DARES to hack into a computer!
Pulleeze.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: 16 Mar 2012 17:16:02 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Inside the Stratfor Attack
Message-ID: <20120316171602.25607.qmail@joyce.lan>
>The legal issue is where the crime occurred. The laws of that
>jurisdiction apply.
Yes, but extradition treaties invariably have limits. For example,
many countries will not extradite murder suspects to the US unless
they get a guarantee of no death penalty.
The UK has a fairly bad extradition treaty which makes it way too easy
to extradite people to the US for stuff that's (arguably) legal in the
UK. It's a political issue there.
R's,
John
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:16:58 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: For Apple, Pressure Builds Over App Store Fraud
Message-ID: <p06240821cb88a7526a54@[10.0.1.4]>
For Apple, Pressure Builds Over App Store Fraud
By EVELYN M. RUSLI and BRIAN X. CHEN
March 15, 2012
In a little over an hour, Ryan Matthew Pierson racked up $437.71 in
iTunes charges for virtual currency that he could use to buy guns,
nightclubs and cars in iMobsters, a popular iPhone game. One problem:
Mr. Pierson, a technology writer in Texas, has never played iMobsters.
"This was fraud," said Mr. Pierson, recalling the November incident.
"I woke up, checked my e-mail, and I could see these purchases
happening in real time."
Mr. Pierson raised the issue with Apple and his bank, and the problem
was eventually resolved. But his experience is hardly unique, as
reflected by hundreds of online complaints saying that Apple's iTunes
Store, and in particular its App Store, which the company portrays as
the safest of shopping environments, is not so secure.
The complaints come from consumers like Mr. Pierson, who say that
their accounts have been hijacked or that some apps are falsely
advertised. And they come from creators of apps, who say they are
having to deal with fraudulent purchases that drain their time and
resources. Software makers also complain that competition in the App
Store has become so brutal that many companies resort to artificially
inflating their popularity rankings to grab attention.
It's a change for Apple, which was once criticized for its
micromanaging of the App Store. Now the problem is not too much
control, but too little.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/technology/pressure-on-apple-builds-over-app-store-fraud.html
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:43:49 -0400
From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Looks like lights out for LightSquared
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1203161242100.21301@panix5.panix.com>
[CNN]
Sprint terminates contract with LightSquared
(New York) - Sprint ended its $9 billion agreement with LightSquared on
Friday, after it became increasingly clear that LightSquared's network may
not get off the ground.
...
The nation's third-largest wireless carrier was hoping to build out and
license a 4G network to LightSquared, which the wholesaler would use in
tandem with its own infrastructure to launch its service. In turn, Sprint
would have been able to use up to 50% of LightSquared's network capacity
for its own customers.
....
Sprint had twice extended its tentative agreement with LightSquared in
hope that the company could gain regulatory approval, but Sprint's faith
in that process ended Friday.
"Due to these unresolved issues ... Sprint has elected to exercise its
right to terminate the agreement announced last summer," a Sprint
spokesman wrote in an e-mailed statement.
--------
rest:
http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/16/technology/sprint-lightsquared/index.htm
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