---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190722131954.GA13454@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 13:19:54 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Reporter's multi-city 5G tour finds a 'fast and hot' mess Leading U.S. carriers - like AT&T in Las Vegas and T-Mobile in NYC - are beginning to launch 5G in parts of the country. But is 5G ready for prime time? Not yet. Joanna Stern, a Wall Street Journal reporter, decided to test out the technology for an article. https://www.wraltechwire.com/2019/07/22/reporters-multi-city-5g-tour-finds-a-fast-and-hot-mess/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <F0D020FE-86B6-430A-90EC-93086AE11C6D@roscom.com> Date: 22 Jul 2019 08:30:03 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: What happens when a country's entire adult population is hacked? The hack: A 20-year-old man was arrested in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Tuesday afternoon and charged with an unprecedented hack of the country's tax authority, ending with the theft of sensitive personal records from nearly every adult in Bulgaria, according to local reports. The suspect, whose name is Kristiyan Boykov, according to Bulgarian media, faces up to eight years in prison. Police say others may have been involved. The country's officials have spent the week revealing and apologizing for the pillaging of Bulgaria's National Revenue Agency (NRA) in June, Reuters reported. Personal and financial data for millions of taxpayers was leaked by email to local journalists. The data leak includes names, addresses, income and earnings information, and personal identification numbers, totaling 21 gigabytes and extending back over a decade. https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613973/what-happens-when-a-countrys-entire-adult-population-is-hacked/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <85FFF8E6-08B8-435D-BF80-D4D969BAD71D@roscom.com> Date: 22 Jul 2019 08:32:32 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: How an authoritarian regime will intercept all internet traffic inside its country How an authoritarian regime will intercept all internet traffic inside its country The man in the middle: Beginning last week, Kazakhstan's government is intercepting all HTTPS traffic inside the country, ZDNet reports. HTTPS is a protocol meant to offer encryption, security, and privacy to users, but now the nation's internet service providers are forcing all users to install certificates that enable pervasive interception and surveillance. On Wednesday, Kazakh internet users were redirected to web pages in- structing them to install the government's root certificate in their web browser, which enables what's called "man in the middle" inter- ception of internet traffic, decryption, and surveillance. https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613989/how-an-authoritarian-regime-will-intercept-all-internet-traffic-inside-its-country/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Tue, 23 Jul 2019