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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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[telecom] Job Title Key to Inner Access Held by Snowden
Job Title Key to Inner Access Held by Snowden By SCOTT SHANE and DAVID E. SANGER June 30, 2013 WASHINGTON - Intelligence officials refer to Edward J. Snowden's job as a National Security Agency...
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FCC Whacks TV Max [telecom]
Posted on CommLawBlog on June 26, 2013 by Paul J. Feldman | No consent for retransmission of TV signals? That'll be $2.25 million, | please. | | If you've ever wondered what would happen if you...
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Walmart cellphone plans? [telecom]
So the plethora of Walmart ads say you can keep your phone(s) and number(s) and switch to their off-brand carriers for the same networks and a lot less money. Anyone try that? Experiences? Is one...
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It's vacation time again [telecom]
It's that time of year again, when Telecom Digest readers book flights to far-away places, pack their clothes, and head out on vacation. But ... Many of the auto-response "vacation macro" features of...
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SOHO application to handle phone calls? [telecom]
Hello Someone I know would like to work part-time from her home handling phone calls from a doctor's office. To get started, she only needs a reliable phone line and an analog modem with support for...
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Re: Exploding the Phone [telecom]
Lou, [Here is] the link to the book's Web site: Regards, Fred Official web site for Phil Lapsley's book, 'Exploding The Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell'
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Number, Please! Comment Deadlines Set in Telephone Numbering Proceeding [telecom]
Posted on June 19, 2013 by FHH Law Source: Neal McLain Comment deadlines have been set in the FCC proceeding that could eventually mean serious changes in what we understand a telephone number to...
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Access Recovery Charge [telecom]
Having just received a bill in which CenturyLink (motto: "proving Qwest wasn't so bad after all") raises my Access Recovery Charge, I started to wonder. The bill says the charges are "to recover costs...
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Telegram not dead. Stop. [telecom]
Despite end of India's national telegraph service, telegraphy lives on. by Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, June 19 2013, 9:38am CST Continued: The Monitor has since posted the following clarification on...
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History--1968 telephone credit card verification [telecom]
An article in the August 1968 Computers & Automation describes using a card-dialer telephone to verify credit card transactions. (Note that in the 1970s AT&T developed a special telephone set and...
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Excellent new book about Phone Phreaks [telecom]
Here is an excellent new book that traces the history of Phone Phreaks. It is well researched and well put together. "Exploding The Phone : The untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma...
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Google unveils Internet beaming balloons launched into stratosphere [telecom]
By Nick Perry and Martha Mendoza | Associated Press | Jun 15, 2013 | Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish- | shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen | field in...
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India to send world's last telegram [telecom]
By Shivam Vij, Correspondent, Christian Science Monitor, June 14, 2013 fast. | New Delhi | At the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), India's state- | owned telecom company, a message emerges from a...
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Is the NSA Verizon Request Legal? [telecom]
Based On What We Know, Is The NSA Verizon Request Legal? by EYDER PERALTA June 15, 2013 6:48 AM Here's what we know about a National Security Agency program that collects vast amounts of data on the...
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