---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20200217184203.GA9370@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:42:03 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Ski resort, retirement community among areas dealing with CenturyLink outages BY CRAIG SAILOR UPDATE 5 p.m. Thursday: Service to all Tacoma customers has been restored, according to CenturyLink. UPDATE 7 p.m. Wednesday: Service has been restored in the Crystal Mountain and Enumclaw areas, according to CenturyLink. Original story below. CenturyLink phone and internet service outages in North Tacoma, Crystal Mountain ski resort and Enumclaw have left residents without landlines and forced a retirement community to go on "fire watch." About 50 customers are affected in the Tacoma outage which began Friday, CenturyLink spokeswoman Kerry Zimmer said Wednesday. https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article240240906.html -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200217184519.GA9479@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:45:19 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: New alarming texting scam: scammers pose as Verizon Wireless, ask for personal information (WKBW) - Police are issuing a warning about a sophisticated scam that sends out texts that look like they're from Verizon Wireless. According to Howtogeek.com, a scammer texts people with an "account security" message. The message takes you to a site that looks like Verizon's website. https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/new-alarming-texting-scam-scammers-pose-as-verizon-wireless-ask-for-personal-information -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <3DDC8CA7-CC51-4AC7-8786-E5F291E42F80@roscom.com> Date: 15 Feb 2020 12:29:42 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: A World Without Privacy Will Revive the Masquerade A World Without Privacy Will Revive the Masquerade As the growing scale of facial recognition shows, more data can always be extracted. Twenty years ago at a Silicon Valley product launch, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy dismissed concern about digital privacy as a red herring: "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it." "Zero privacy" was meant to placate us, suggesting that we have a fixed amount of stuff about ourselves that we'd like to keep private. Once we realized that stuff had already been exposed and, yet, the world still turned, we would see that it was no big deal. But what poses as unsentimental truth telling isn't cynical enough about the parlous state of our privacy. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/we-may-have-no-privacy-things-can-always-get-worse/606250/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Tue, 18 Feb 2020