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Telecommunications digest. (Moderated)
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Debian OpenSSL Vulnerability
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***** Moderator's Note ***** Although the attached warning is not, srictly speaking, telecom related, I'm allowing it because Debian GNU/Linux is the operating system that runs a lot of the Asterisk PBX software, and is used in a lot of other "infrastructure" machines that provide email or other essential corporate functions. The more people who know, the better.... more »
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3 in 10 get all or most calls on cell phones
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By ALAN FRAM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- For nearly three in 10 households, don't even bother trying to call them on a landline phone. They either only have a cell phone or seldom if ever take calls on their traditional phone. The federal figures, released Wednesday, showed that reliance on cells... more »
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License requirements for cellular repeaters/boosters [TELECOM]
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I'm not sure this is where I saw the discussion regarding license requirements for cellular repeaters, but some had stated that no FCC license was required. From today's FCC Daily Digest, it appears they disagree. DIGITAL ANTENNA, INC. Notified Digital Antenna, Inc. of its Apparent Liability for... more »
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A Low-cost Attack on a Microsoft CAPTCHA
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A Low-cost Attack on a Microsoft CAPTCHA Jeff Yan, Ahmad Salah El Ahmad School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK {Jeff.Yan, Ahmad.Salah-El-Ahm...@ncl.ac.u k Abstract: CAPTCHA is now almost a standard security technology. The most widely used CAPTCHAs rely on the sophisticated distortion of... more »
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Velveeta: "beware Operation Sudden Fall" [Telecom]
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***** Moderator's Note ***** Usenet is getting a flood of Velveeta this morning, all of it touting some scheme to "Encrypt" SMS messages, and supposedly protect them from interception by the police. The first two URL's in the Velveeta point to news reports about widespread drug dealing and arrests on a... more »
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ringdown non-dial pay station (was History -- increase in pay phone from 5c to 10c?)
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...<<All coin telephones on post were served on a manual dial basis (No dial pad on the coin phone equipment). To place a call, one would pick up the G type handset, wait for the local operator to answer on her cord board incoming subscriber lines. Then advance the call in the conventional operator dial manner, or manual ring down if to another pay phone. I... more »
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"Mind Control by Cellphone" [Telecom]
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We haven't had this discussion in a while. There's always the crowd who says "it is impossible for a cellphone to affect your body except by heating", the crowd who says "it'll give you cancer", and a few who say "we're not sure why there are effects, or what their significance is, but they do exist". This article falls into that last camp.... more »
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Who needs an HDTV? [Telecom]
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***** Moderator's Note ***** I'm a member of the Boston Linux & Unix Group, and I asked the members to add a Linux perspective to the Hiawatha Bray article mentioned in Monty Solomon's post. This reply is from Jarod Wilson, who asked that his email address be removed. ***** ***** ...The digital side of the HVR-950Q is supported in the dvb-v4l mercurial... more »
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