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The Telecom Digest for Sun, 12 Jan 2020
Volume 39 : Issue 12 : "text" format

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Telephone ads 100 years agoHAncock4
Re: Corporations Forcing Workers To Train Their Foreign ReplacementsHAncock4
Why is a 22GB database containing 56 million US folks' personal details sitting on the open internet?Monty Solomon
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <016cb140-ad8a-49cb-a0e8-3e71901200da@googlegroups.com> Date: 11 Jan 2020 12:06:42 -0800 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Telephone ads 100 years ago 100 years ago AT&T ran an extolling their maintenance: https://archive.org/details/Nations-Business-1920-01/page/n79 (right side) The Automatic Electric Co. ran ad touting its P-A-X systems. In addition to basic communication, their system also offered code call, emergency calls, and conference calls. https://archive.org/details/Nations-Business-1920-04/page/n69 I'll leave it others to decide how far we advanced in the last 100 years given all the network crashes reported here. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <2efeb900-ff50-49a4-9972-df80052b6831@googlegroups.com> Date: 9 Jan 2020 14:06:57 -0800 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: Corporations Forcing Workers To Train Their Foreign Replacements On Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 3:08:39 PM UTC-5, Moderator wrote: > Corporations Forcing Workers To Train Their Foreign Replacements > > By Farron Cousins > > Donald Trump swore that he was going to bring American jobs back to > this country, but he's done absolutely nothing to make that a > reality. Instead, corporations are still shipping jobs overseas, and > to add insult to injury, many of these companies are forcing their > American workers to train their foreign replacements. Ring of Fire's > Farron Cousins explains what's happening. > > https://trofire.com/2020/01/05/corporations-forcing-workers-to-train-their-foreign-replacements/ I couldn't resist posting this old AT&T ad from 1947. In it, AT&T is touting that their employees are local "home town folks" https://archive.org/details/the-saturday-evening-post-1947-08-16/page/n1 ------------------------------ Message-ID: <6B498699-A18E-4084-AC7B-C452FCD2D109@roscom.com> Date: 10 Jan 2020 02:59:20 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Why is a 22GB database containing 56 million US folks' personal details sitting on the open internet? Why is a 22GB database containing 56 million US folks' personal details sitting on the open internet using a Chinese IP address? Seriously, why? If CheckPeople could take a look at this, that would be great By Shaun Nichols Exclusive A database containing the personal details of 56.25m US residents - from names and home addresses to phone numbers and ages - has been found on the public internet, served from a computer with a Chinese IP address, bizarrely enough. The information silo appears to have been obtained somehow from Florida-based CheckPeople.com, which is a typical people-finder website: for a fee, you can enter someone's name, and it will look up their current and past addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, names of relatives, and even criminal records in some cases, all presumably gathered from public records. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/09/checkpeoplecom_data_exposed/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 12 Jan 2020
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