Date: 5 Oct 2000 06:15:10 -0400 Message-ID: <20001005101510.15173.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com> From: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org (Telecom Digest) To: telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Subject: Telecom Digest V2000 #77 Reply-To: editor@telecom-digest.org Sender: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Errors-To: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Precedence: bulk X-UIDL: 618697553a9394ae6933cc4cc7ed77d2 Status: RO X-Status: Telecom Digest Thursday, October 5 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 077 In this issue: Re: Time Suffolk Bans Driving and Talking Re: Verizon Backs No-Call Drive Laws 10/4/00 ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES PalmOS Password Retrieval and Decoding AT&T Considers Long-Distance Spinoff Calif. Residents Sue Verizon Over 'Secret' Charge Re: Carnivore Review Team Exposed! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 4 Oct 2000 08:17:47 -0400 From: Dave Tweed Subject: Re: Time Jonathan Seder wrote: > This was discussed here a while ago - maybe around March 21 of this > year. There are several precise time standards - the (U.S.) National > Institute of Standards and Technology runs WWV which in turn drives most > Internet (RFC 868) time standards. Astronomers use WWV time, I believe, > with adjustments. > > The GPS satellites also have their own, slightly offset standard. There's a short summary of the various time standards at http://www.chipcenter.com/circuitcellar/august00/ancil/c0800eqa8.htm;?PRINT=true and a much more in-depth discussion at http://sciastro.astronomy.net/sci.astro.3.FAQ WWV, CHU, and most other radio time standards transmit UTC. - -- Dave Tweed - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 4 Oct 2000 12:45:32 -0400 From: "monty solomon" Subject: Suffolk Bans Driving and Talking Suffolk Bans Driving and Talking RIVERHEAD, N.Y. -- Suffolk County, home of the Hamptons and other playgrounds of the wealthy, has voted to ban drivers from using handheld cellular phones. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39251,00.html - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 4 Oct 2000 14:54:13 -0400 From: sicherman@lucent.com (He Comes As No Surprise) Subject: Re: Verizon Backs No-Call Drive Laws In , ahk@chinet.chinet.com wrote: > > hpa@zytor.com wrote: > > > Listening to the radio? > > That's supposed to keep you more alert. Not necessarily. A year or two ago I read a report of an insurance study in which drivers with the radio on had about 10% more accidents. This doesn't prove that the radio causes accidents. Maybe the drivers who see driving as a "fun" activity are more likely to have the radio on. It might help more to ban T.V. commercials for cars. Without them, more drivers might recognize that driving is mundane, difficult, and dangerous. - -:- "Now take the man who drives a Studebaker, smokes Old Golds, uses cream-based hair oil, an electric shaver, carries a Parker 51 fountain pen. Obviously he's a salesman, an active man, aggressive in face-to-face situations and wants to make a good impression. Probably he was quite a romantic type in his youth." And the other psychologist added: "Also, you'll find that he is wearing loud shorts." --Vance Packard, _The Hidden Persuaders_ - -- Col. G. L. Sicherman work: sicherman@lucent.com home: colonel@mail.monmouth.com - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 21:56:08 -0400 From: "Judith Oppenheimer" Subject: 10/4/00 ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES ************************************************************************ ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES ************************************************************************* from ICB Toll Free News - Daily News and Intelligence covering the Political, Legal and Marketing Arenas of 800 and Dot Com. ************************************************************************* CONTENTS EDITOR'S MUST-READ SELECTION: - - U.S. GOV USES ICANN TO ROUTE AROUND THE APA AND THE CONSTITUTION - - FCC LEERY OF LONG DISTANCE SPIN-OFFS - - CALIFORNIA GOV SIGNS BILL FOR APP-SPECIFIC AREA CODES - - VENDOR SELECTION CRITERIA FOR DEALER LOCATOR APPS, PART II - - BROWN OF NOSE, CRANED OF NECK, DOT WS PUCKERS UP TO TM BOOTY - - AT&T BOARD MULLS LD SPINOFF; SITS OUT TLD OPPORTUNITY - - IF YOU CAN MAKE IT HERE ... 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READ IT HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4591 ************************************************************************ HEADLINES for October 4, 2000 F - FCC LEERY OF LONG DISTANCE SPIN-OFFS AT&T Corp. is contemplating separating out its consumer long-distance business, according to sources. Additionally, WorldCom is considering separating its consumer long-distance business, either creating a tracking stock or even a new company. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4598 F - CALIFORNIA GOV SIGNS BILL FOR APP-SPECIFIC AREA CODES But first, the Federal Communications Commission - which bars technology overlays because it deems them as discriminatory against wireless providers - - must either grant California's petition to allow such overlays or issue a broad ruling that would lift the prohibition in all states. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4597 P - VENDOR SELECTION CRITERIA FOR DEALER LOCATOR APPS, PART II Toll-free dealer locator systems, also known as point-of-call routing systems, play an important role in the marketing initiatives they support. Carrier based point-of-call routing is the staple of the Shared Use industry, however Shared Use providers would be wise to consider the service bureau option. Part II of a two-part article by Paul Langhorst of 800 Adept, Inc. 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This `protection window' is intended to give companies a chance to register the equivalent .ws address to their current dotcom address proactively, thus avoiding potential litigation at a later date. This new initiative is a second and final attempt to give companies and organizations the opportunity to establish their .ws presence and rightly protect their trademarked names from cybersquatters. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4595 F - AT&T BOARD MULLS LD SPINOFF; SITS OUT TLD OPPORTUNITY This latest twist to the AT&T saga suggests that the AT&T board may be going down the path of what many business experts have suggested may be the best option for major carriers operating in different market segments - the internal spinning off of operations to allow the creation of several smaller companies. Of note, AT&T is not on the roster of companies vying for new TLD's. 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All rights reserved. ************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: 4 Oct 2000 22:12:28 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: PalmOS Password Retrieval and Decoding PalmOS Password Retrieval and Decoding Summary PalmOS offers a built-in Security application, which is used for the legitimate user to protect and hide records from unauthorized users by means of a password. In all basic built-in applications (Address, Date Book, Memo Pad, and To Do List), individual records can be marked as "Private" and will only be accessible if the correct password is entered. It is possible to obtain an encoded form of the password, determine the actual password due to a weak, reversible encoding scheme, and access a users private data. In order for this attack to be successful, the attacker must have physical access to the target Palm device. The threat of physical attacks internal to a company is very real and this advisory makes the point that security is not limited to the network/internet arena. The private records often contain passwords, financial data, and company confidential information. @stake's experience with physical audits has revealed that most users of Palm or other portable devices do not realize that their private information could possibly be accessed by unauthorized users. http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/PalmOS_Password_Retrieval_and_Decoding.html - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 4 Oct 2000 22:16:25 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: AT&T Considers Long-Distance Spinoff AT&T considers long-distance spinoff By The Associated Press Special to CNET News.com October 3, 2000, 10:50 p.m. PT NEW YORK--The board of directors at AT&T reportedly is in favor of spinning off the company's struggling consumer long-distance business to shareholders rather than selling outright what was once a core unit of the telecommunications giant. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-2927667.html - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 4 Oct 2000 22:29:34 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Calif. Residents Sue Verizon Over 'Secret' Charge Calif. Residents Sue Verizon Over 'Secret' Charge Wednesday, October 04, 2000 By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Remember those black rotary telephones the phone company used to make you rent back in the 1980s because you were not allowed to buy them? Guess what? You may still be renting that phone whether you know it or not, whether it still exists or not and whether you want to or not. http://news.lycos.com/headlines/TopNews/article.asp?docid=RTNEWS-TELECOMS-VERIZON-DC&date=20001004 - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 5 Oct 2000 00:48:09 -0400 From: "Michael D. Sullivan" Subject: Re: Carnivore Review Team Exposed! Now that I went back and checked, the yahoo.com email address was not published. It was provided by the FBI Calea Implementation Section staff by phone, when contacted at an official number (probably the number in the Flexible Deployment Plan guide). Methinks some staff member got frustrated at not being able to get a public fbi.gov email account that could be given out for the FDP filings and signed up for a free yahoo.com account without official authorization. Whether the yahoo.com account was obtained through official channels or in this informal way, it indicates the casual attitude of the FBI toward *real* security. - -- Michael D. Sullivan avogadro@bellatlantic.net Bethesda, MD, USA "John McHarry" wrote in message news:k9skts4sjhqv3jt9vrlh41d10fumdrmo8b@4ax.com... > That is extremely weird. Did you call them at a published number? > This sounds far too much like a Trojan Horse. > > They don't seem to post any email addresses on their home page, so > maybe FBI prohibits email communication and somebody inside is trying > to bypass that. But other parts of DOJ have email addresses. > Something is afoot. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. 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