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Evidence that the NSA Is Storing Voice Content [Telecom]
The 15-JULY-2013 Bruce Schneier CRYTO-GRAM email report is fascinating. For those who don't know who Bruce Schneier is: Following is a copy'n'paste of just the "NSA is storing voice content" portion...
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[telecom] Amar G. Bose, Acoustic Engineer and Inventor, Dies at 83
Amar G. Bose, Acoustic Engineer and Inventor, Dies at 83 By GLENN RIFKIN July 12, 2013 Amar G. Bose, the visionary engineer, inventor and billionaire entrepreneur whose namesake company, the Bose...
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[telecom] Nations Buying as Hackers Sell Flaws in Computer Code
Nations Buying as Hackers Sell Flaws in Computer Code By NICOLE PERLROTH and DAVID E. SANGER July 13, 2013 On the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta, two Italian hackers have been searching for bugs -...
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[telecom] Has Patent, Will Sue: An Alert to Corporate America
Has Patent, Will Sue: An Alert to Corporate America By DAVID SEGAL July 13, 2013 If you're a corporate executive, this may be one of the last sentences you want to hear: "Erich Spangenberg is on the...
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Big disconnect: Telcos to abandon copper phone lines [telecom]
Mantoloking's outside copper loop plant seems unlikely to be restored after getting flooded out by Sandy: "MANTOLOKING, N.J. (AP) -- Robert Post misses his phone line. Post, 85, has a pacemaker that...
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[telecom] Cellphone data mined to create personal profiles
Cellphone data mined to create personal profiles Analyzing calls, text, and other cellphone data yields clues about a user's personality, behavior, and even health status By Hiawatha Bray | GLOBE...
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an EPIC battle against a windmill [telecom]
[NY Times] Privacy Group to Ask Supreme Court to Stop N.S.A.'s Phone Spying Program Washington - A privacy rights group plans to file an emergency petition with the Supreme Court on Monday asking it...
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[telecom] Photoshop's New Rental Program, and the Outrage Factor
Photoshop's New Rental Program, and the Outrage Factor By DAVID POGUE JULY 5, 2013 My review of Photoshop CC on Thursday - especially its availability only as a rental, with a monthly or yearly...
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[telecom] What It's Like to Get a National-Security Letter
What It's Like to Get a National-Security Letter Posted by Maria Bustillos The New Yorker June 28, 2013 In the summer of 2011, while he was fighting an indictment for alleged computer crimes, Aaron...
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Needed, conference calling [telecom]
I'm again seeking a vendor for a conference bridge service. There are free ones, but they are worth what you pay for them. Features needed/wanted: a) non-800 numbers, likely in the 202 area [Some...
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Remedies for Better Cellphone Signal and Quality [telecom]
Remedies for Better Cellphone Signal and Quality By ERIC A. TAUB June 26, 2013 One technology will typically trump another when it's an improvement over the existing one. Think of high-definition...
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[telecom] U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement
U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement By RON NIXON July 3, 2013 WASHINGTON - Leslie James Pickering noticed something odd in his mail last September: a handwritten card, apparently...
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[telecom] Software as a Monthly Rental
Software as a Monthly Rental By DAVID POGUE July 3, 2013 There's a new reason for Photoshop to be famous. Yes, it's still the program that just about every photographer and designer on earth uses to...
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[telecom] The Criminal N.S.A.
The Criminal N.S.A. By JENNIFER STISA GRANICK and CHRISTOPHER JON SPRIGMAN June 27, 2013 THE twin revelations that telecom carriers have been secretly giving the National Security Agency information...
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[telecom] Privacy in an age of publicity.
THE PRISM Privacy in an age of publicity. BY Jill Lepore June 24, 2013 The New Yorker An extraordinary fuss about eavesdropping started in the spring of 1844, when Giuseppe Mazzini, an Italian exile...
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