---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <87zihxsi2j.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> Date: 07 Feb 2017 19:21:40 -0400 From: Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> Subject: Re: Here's Exactly How the Internet Is Now Under Threat Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> writes: > As commissioner, Tom Wheeler told those four companies that they > should be serving the public interest as well. All corporations should be "serving the public interest as well". Governments issue corporate charters and allow the privilege of limited liability because it is in the public interest to see capital invested in that way, not as a Get Out Of Jail Free card to investors to abuse the public interest and walk away with the profits. If corporations refuse to act in the public interest, their charters shoud be revoked. Yes, that would hurt share holders, just the same as if you put your money into Joey Weasel's little business and he gets 10 to life when they catch him. You were supposed to scrutinize Joey very carefully before you handed him your bundle. Would make investors very careful of which compnaies they bought into. Track record of skimming cream and stonewalling the public interest? Divest, don't buy, never go there again. <https://backchannel.com/obamas-fcc-head-is-worried-about-our-online-future-628b8f63efc5>: -- Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada ------------------------------ Message-ID: <3926314F-9D75-4911-AA6F-D5801B76439A%usenet@news.jmatt.net> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 16:00:04 -0000 (UTC) From: Matt Simpson <usenet@news.jmatt.net> Subject: Re: One word on the phone could cost you dearly Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> wrote: > One word on the phone could cost you dearly - [the story is listed as "Unproven" on the snopes.com website - bh] http://www.snopes.com/can-you-hear-me-scam/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <6sSdnSLNfOz0YATFnZ2dnUU7-TOdnZ2d@giganews.com> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 11:01:29 -0600 From: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@dork.geeks.org> Subject: Re: Ransomware killed 70% of Washington DC CCTV ahead of inauguration Fred Goldstein <fg_es@removeQRM.ionary.com> writes: >On 1/30/2017 12:11 PM, Pete Cresswell wrote: >> Per Monty Solomon: >>> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/30/ransomware_killed_70_of_washington_dc_cctv_ahead_of_inauguration/ >> >> It would have been interesting to hear how all those machines got >> infected. >> >Very easily. The DVtel servers which tie it all together had the default >password left on them. It took me something like ten seconds to find it >on line. ... >It is amazing how many people don't change default passwords. Besides being common sense, its part of every single IT audit I've ever gone through, do you immediately change all vendor default passwords on everything as part of your corporate policy? -- Doug McIntyre doug@themcintyres.us ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 09 Feb 2017