TELECOM Digest     Thu, 3 Nov 2005 23:58:00 EST    Volume 24 : Issue 501

Inside This Issue:                            Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Botmaster Charged in Unique Computer Crime (Dan Whitcomb)
    MIT Wireless Network Tracks Info on Users (Brooke Donald)
    Mesh Networks: New Options For Wireless Users (Mark Long)
    Mystery Object: Supermassive Black Holes? (Peter N. Spotts, CS Monitor)
    Re: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far (Jim Haynes)
    Re: Verizon FIOS, DSL, and Possible Cancellation Fees (jeremyeastburn)
    Re: Recorded Call From Law Office? (Carl Moore)
    Re: Do We Go Overboard for Halloween? (John McHarry)

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From: Dan Whitcomb <reuters@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Botmaster Charged in Unique Computer Crime
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 21:03:23 -0600


By Dan Whitcomb

A 20-year-old man accused of using thousands of hijacked computers, or
"bot nets," to damage systems and send massive amounts of spam across
the Internet was arrested on Thursday in what authorities called the
first such prosecution of its kind.

Jeanson James Ancheta, who prosecutors say was a well-known member of
the "Botmaster Underground" -- or the secret network of computer
hackers skilled at bot attacks -- was taken into custody after being
lured to FBI offices in Los Angeles, said U.S. Attorney's spokesman
Thom Mrozek.

A bot is a program that surreptitiously installs itself on a computer
and allows the hacker to control the computer. A bot net is a network
of such robot computers, which can harness their collective power to
do considerable damage or send out huge quantities of spam.

Mrozek said the prosecution was unique because, unlike in previous
cases, Ancheta was accused of profiting from his attacks -- by selling
access to his "bot nets" to other hackers and planting adware --
software that causes ads to pop up -- into infected computers.

"Normally what we see in these cases, where people set up these bot
systems to do, say, denial of service attacks, they are not doing it
for profit, they are doing it for bragging rights," he said. "This is
the first case in the nation that we're aware of where the guy was
using various bot nets in order to make money for himself."

Ancheta has been indicted on a 17-count federal indictment that
charges him with conspiracy, attempted transmission of code to a
protected computer, transmission of code to a government computer,
accessing a protected computer to commit fraud and money laundering.

Ancheta, who was expected to make an initial court appearance late on
Thursday or Friday, faces a maximum term of 50 years in prison if
convicted on all counts, though federal sentencing guidelines
typically call for lesser penalties.

Prosecutors did not name the companies that they said paid Ancheta and
said the firms did not know any laws were broken.

Mrozek said Ancheta, who lives in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey,
was thought to have made nearly $60,000 from the planted adware, using
the money to pay for servers to carry out additional attacks, computer
equipment and a BMW.

He said Ancheta was taken into custody after FBI agents called him
into their offices to pick up computer equipment that had been seized
in an earlier raid.

Among the computers he attacked, Mrozek said, were some at the Weapons
Division of the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake,
California and at the U.S. Department of Defense.


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From: Brooke Donald <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: MIT Wireless Network Tracks Info on Users
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 21:04:29 -0600


By BROOKE DONALD, Associated Press Writer

In another time and place, college students wondering whether the
campus cafe has any free seats, or their favorite corner of the
library is occupied, would have to risk hoofing it over there. But for
today's student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that
kind of information is all just a click away.

MIT's newly upgraded wireless network -- extended this month to cover
the entire school -- doesn't merely get you online in study halls,
stairwells or any other spot on the 9.4 million square foot campus. It
also provides information on exactly how many people are logged on at
any given location at any given time.

It even reveals a user's identity if the individual has opted to make that
data public.

MIT researchers did this by developing electronic maps that track
across campus, day and night, the devices people use to connect to the
network, whether they're laptops, wireless PDAs or even Wi-Fi equipped
cell phones.

The maps were unveiled this week at the MIT Museum, where they are
projected onto large Plexiglas rectangles that hang from the
ceiling. They are also available online to network users, the data
time-stamped and saved for up to 12 hours.

Red splotches on one map show the highest concentration of wireless
users on campus. On another map, yellow dots with names written above
them identify individual users, who pop up in different places
depending where they're logged in.

"With these maps, you can see down to the room on campus how many
people are logged on," said Carlo Ratti, director of the school's
SENSEable City Laboratory, which created the maps. "You can even watch
someone go from room to room if they have a handheld device that's
connected."

Researchers use log files from the university's Internet service
provider to construct the maps. The files indicate the number of users
connected to each of MIT's more than 2,800 access points. The map that
can pinpoint locations in rooms is 3-D, so researchers can even
distinguish connectivity in multistoried buildings.

"Laptops and Wi-Fi are creating a revolutionary change in the way
people work," Ratti said. The maps aim to "visualize these changes by
monitoring the traffic on the wireless network and showing how people
move around campus."

Some of the results so far aren't terribly surprising for students at
the vanguard of tech innovation.

The maps show, for example, that the bulk of wireless users late at
night and very early in the morning are logged on from their
dorms. During the day, the higher concentration of users shifts to
classrooms.

But researchers also found that study labs that once bustled with
students are now nearly empty as people, no longer tethered to a phone
line or network cable, move to cafes and nearby lounges, where food
and comfy chairs are more inviting.

Researchers say this data can be used to better understand how
wireless technology is changing campus life, and what that means for
planning spaces and administering services.

The question has become, Ratti said, "If I can work anywhere, where do
I want to work?"

"Many cities, including Philadelphia, are planning to go
wireless. Something like our study will help them understand usage
patterns and where best to invest," said researcher Andres Sevtsuk.

Sevtsuk likened the mapping project to a real-time census.

"Instead of waiting every year or every 10 years for data, you have
new information every 15 minutes or so about the population of the
campus," he said.

While every device connected to the campus network via Wi-Fi is
visible on the constantly refreshed electronic maps, the identity of
the users is confidential unless they volunteer to make it public.

Those students, faculty and staff who opt in are essentially agreeing
to let others track them.

"This raises some serious privacy issues," Ratti said. "But where
better than to work these concerns out but on a research campus?"

Rich Pell, a 21-year-old electrical engineering senior from
Spartanburg, S.C., was less than enthusiastic about the new system's
potential for people monitoring. He predicted not many fellow students
would opt into that.

"I wouldn't want all my friends and professors tracking me all the
time. I like my privacy," he said. "I can't think of anyone who would
think that's a good idea. Everyone wants to be out of contact now and
then."

On the Net:
http://ispots.mit.edu/
http://senseable.mit.edu/

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From: Mark Long <newsfactor@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Mesh Networks: New Options for Wireless Users
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 21:05:39 -0600


by Mark Long, newsfactor.com

The race has begun to make wireless networks more viable for cities,
large corporate headquarters, university campuses, and other
environments where the technology used in today's Wi-Fi hotspots might
be insufficient on its own.

Several companies -- including tech giant Motorola and smaller shops
such as Firetide, Tropos Networks, BelAir Networks, and Strix Systems
 -- have been pursuing a wireless broadband network strategy, known as
'mesh,' to help extend the reach of wireless networks.

The ingenious technology works in such a way that users who are out of
range of an Internet-access point do not need a dedicated connection
of their own.  Instead, they can piggyback their Internet requests on
devices scattered around a geographic location. These devices relay
the requests back to the central connection. In theory, long chains of
such devices can provide Internet connectivity far from the actual
access point.

Mesh Backbone

One company leading the way in the march to mesh, SkyPilot Networks in
Santa Clara, California, is applying the technology to serve both
residential broadband customers and city workers.

"We are the only company thus far to use the same mesh backbone
infrastructure to provide both broadband Ethernet access and Wi-Fi,"
said SkyPilot CEO Bob Machlin. He said that such a network can scale
to all kinds of distances and capacities, and that having a single
integrated network makes it easier to manage the system as well as to
maintain quality of service.

"Today it is very easy to do a Google search on the term 'metro Wi-Fi'
and come up with list of a thousand projects out there," Machlin
said. "They range from connectivity for public employees to ones that
add on free public service and public safety connectivity from fire to
police."

At least one Internet service provider (ISP), however, is sold on the
mesh-networks idea. MetroFi in Mountain View, California, now offers
residential customers in both Cupertino and Santa Clara Wi-Fi services
for which SkyPilot provided the components.

"The deployments cover 20 square miles and use 25 SkyPilot mesh
infrastructure nodes per square mile," said MetroFi CEO Chuck
Haas. "And our service is available today for $19.95, or about half
the cost of subscribing to DSL or cable."

Community Coverage

Another benefit of MetroFi's new service is that subscribers can
access the system using a laptop from anywhere within the community's
coverage area.

Although the company does not offer public-safety communications in
Cupertino or Santa Clara, Haas said MetroFi is talking with other California
communities about providing cities with such networks under an 'all-in'
pricing of $50,000 per square mile, inclusive of site surveys, network
design, equipment, and installation.

Beyond its potential metropolitan-wide applications, SkyPilot's technology
has facilitated the rollout of broadband services in rural environments
where DSL and cable providers fear to tread.

Larry Bowman, a partner at SkyWest Broadband, has deployed SkyPilot's
technology to cover residential customers in Grass Valley, California, in
the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Bowman said that SkyPilot's mesh-routing technology allows the packets of
data that compose all Internet uploads and downloads to take several paths
in order to get from Point A to Point B. As a result, his network's data
travels automatically around hills, buildings, or dense foliage.

Wireless Heroes

'The way the system works is that you have one main antenna, which SkyPilot
calls the Sky-Gateway,' Bowman said. 'Reaching out from there are the
extenders that gather the information and forward it on to the main antenna.
In fact, I am standing on the top of a hill as we speak, installing an
extender in order to get into a valley that cannot reach the main gateway
directly.'

The third essential piece of the system is the hardware installed at each
subscriber's residence, which SkyPilot calls the Sky-Connector. 'It has an
antenna and mounts somewhere on or near the home, and is connected to a
wireless router within the home or to an Ethernet card installed in a
computer,' Bowman said.

Bowman estimated that with the single Sky-Gateway that he and his partners
have in place, and with enough strategically placed Sky-Extenders, SkyWest
eventually could serve as many as 500 rural subscribers in Grass Valley.
With Internet access service priced at $45 per month, SkyWest expects to
begin turning a profit within six months.

"There's a local housing community where we have almost 100 percent
penetration already," Bowman said. "We're their heroes."

Mesh Implications

"Because it features the ability to allow traffic to be routed around
problem points, mesh gives certain advantages," said Yankee Group senior
analyst Lindsay Schroth. "Due to its self-sealing capabilities, you don't
have to have [a dedicated connection between access points]."

The value is in instances in which mesh 'will definitely make sense from the
viewpoint of broader availability,' said Schroth. "For example, when the city
of San Francisco talks about providing public access, the set-up will not be
purely Wi-Fi," she said. Rather, it will incorporate what SkyPilot has been
talking about doing. But the application of mesh technology might not be the
best design in every case, Schroth added.

Even so, laptop manufacturers and software developers are beginning to
eye mesh technology as a way to create mobile Wi-Fi networks even
without having to place dedicated devices around a geographic area.

One company, PacketHop, recently released software, called TrueMesh,
that gives Windows XP laptops the ability to route wireless data is if
they were dedicated access points. If the technology were distributed
by a major laptop vendor, such as Dell or Hewlett-Packard, mobile
users might never be out of range of a wireless connection.

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From: Peter N. Spotts <csm@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Mystery Object: Supermassive Black Hole?
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 21:16:07 -0600


      from the November 04, 2005 edition -
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1104/p02s01-stss.html

      A step closer to identifying that monster in the Milky Way
      Mystery object is smaller than once thought - and incredibly dense.
      Might it be an actual supermassive black hole?
      By Peter N. Spotts | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Astronomers have taken the measure of a monster lurking at the center
of the Milky Way. It's not as big as astronomers once thought. But its
incredible density throws more weight behind the idea that it's a
supermassive black hole, not some oddball collection of other exotic
objects.

The research brings astronomers a step closer to capturing images of
the edge, or "event horizon," of a black hole -- which scientists say
would be the "smoking gun" that proves such entities exist. Once that
horizon is crossed, anything falling in -- including light -- will never
come out.

Supermassive black holes are enormous concentrations of matter
confined to relatively tiny spaces in the centers of most galaxies.
They are the oversized cousins of stellar black holes, which can form
after stars at least 10 times as massive as the sun burn out and
collapse. These smaller black holes tend to be 18 or 19 miles across.

To produce the new results, astronomers aimed a continentwide network
of radio telescopes at a source of radio emissions at the center of
the galaxy, in the constellation Sagittarius. The source is an object
4 million times more massive than the sun.

But the object apparently does not take up much space as previous
measurements had indicated, the new results show. Instead of filling a
patch of space as wide as the solar system, or even as wide as Earth's
full orbit around the sun, the object is smaller than the distance
between the Earth and sun, or 1 astronomical unit. Given estimates of
its mass and its incredible shrinking volume, calculations of its
density are going through the roof.

By closing in on the object's true size, "we're getting tantalizingly
close to being able to see an unmistakable signature ... of a
supermassive black hole," notes Zhi-Qiang Shen of the Shanghai
Astronomical Observatory and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who led
a team from China, the US, and Taiwan. Its results appear in the
current issue of the journal Nature.

What would that signature look like?

Most likely, it would appear as a black circle, surrounded by a thin,
bright line, astronomers say. This thin line of radiation actually
would come from objects behind the black hole. But a process called
gravitational lensing would focus the radiation around the black
hole. Moreover, the black hole would likely appear off-center inside
its thin halo -- an effect traced to its rotation.

Solving the mystery at the heart of the Milky Way is important,
astronomers say, because supermassive black holes are thought to lie
at the center of most galaxies. Knowing more about the one in the
Milky Way -- if that's really what it is -- will help astronomers
understand the role these objects play in other galactic cores.

Until the smoking gun is spotted, notes University of Maryland
astrophysicist Christopher Reynolds, the object could be something
more bizarre and still fall within the confines of standard
physics. One possibility, although remote, is what he calls a "boson
star," made up of particles associated with the fundamental forces of
nature. Such a star could have the size and mass characteristics of
the object at the heart of the Milky Way.

"There are other families of particles out there that can form massive
compact objects," says Dr. Reynolds. New instruments expected to be
developed over the next decade should help astronomers sift the right
answers from the wrong ones, he says.

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Subject: Re: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far
Reply-To: jhaynes@alumni.uark.edu
Organization: University of Arkansas Alumni
From: haynes@alumni.uark.edu (Jim Haynes)
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:21:00 GMT


It's ironic that it is Sony, since Sony was on the other side in the
famous VCR case.  "Sony" is a lawyerly nickname for the case in which
the movie and TV industries sued to have VCRs outlawed because they
could be used to violate copyright law.  The Supreme Court found in
favor of the VCR industry because there are substantial non-infringing
uses of the machines.

jhhaynes at earthlink dot net

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From: jeremyeastburn@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Verizon FIOS, DSL, and Possible Cancellation Fees
Date: 3 Nov 2005 14:29:28 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Correct, both Verizon.  And I just ordered FIOS yesterday (5down/2up)
and they waived the cancellation fee AND they gave me $10/month off
for 12 months!  I can't wait, thanks.

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Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 14:43:06 EST
From: Carl Moore <cmoore@ARL.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Re: Recorded Call From Law Office?


I did hear a complete number but did not write it down.  (Just in case
the record needs to be straightened out.)

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From: John McHarry <jmcharry@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Do We Go Overboard for Halloween?
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 03:25:40 GMT


On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:02:33 -0700, hancock4 wrote:

> A society communications question:

> I've noticed that Halloween seems to have grown substantially in
> importance as a holiday.  Years ago it was one night -- -kids went
> around and collected candy, maybe a few adults had a costume party.

> But in more recent years it seems to rival Christmas as a major
> holiday.

When I was a child in central IL in the 50s, early 60s, it seems it
was a childrens' affair, but it did last for several days. The town
claimed a population 4400, which has declined since, and a lot or kids
canvassed the entire town. I recall that a friend and I tipped over
the last two remaining outhouses in town. One collapsed, and the other
was demolished and removed by the owners. There was also a fair amount
of soaping and paraffining of windows, though not much other vandalism.
The general idea was to commit a prank, not wanton destruction.

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The worst thing I ever think I did as 
a child on Halloween was go with some friends to the State-Lake Theatre
in downtown Chicago. We set off a couple of 'stink bombs' in the middle
the movie. My friends had some sort of acid (sulphuric perhaps) which
created very much a 'rotten egg' odor, then we got out of the theatre 
before the stench had permeaeted the entire place. I recall they had
to evacuate the theatre and it was closed for a couple days while the
carpet was replaced where we had done it.

Other than that, our other favorite prank (good at Halloween or any
time of the year) was called 'stall the trolley bus.' Lawrence Avenue
(and many other east/west streets on the north side of Chicago had
trolley bus service provided by CTA. Unlike a streetcar, which uses an
overhead catenary pole and wire, but runs on actual rails (CTA had 
lots of those also), a trolley bus used the catenary and overhead wire
but ran on rubber tires. We would gather at a relatively busy inter-
section, Lawrence and Western Avenues. The trolley would invariably
stop there to pick up or drop off riders. The object was to wait
behind the vehicle until just one or two seconds after the driver 
started to pull away. Then one of my friends would run up behind the
trolley and yank down the catenary pole. Obviously, the trolley came to
a dead stop. But if we were 'lucky' the driver had just accelerated
enough to coast into the center of the street as he was stalling. This
had the effect of causing the north/south traffic on Western Avenue to
get stalled also. Timed just right, we could cause it to happen just
as Western got a green light to cause an even longer backup of cars.

Getting the trolley stuck in the middle of Western Avenue was our
goal. One day the Western Avenue streetcar was coming north, so _he_
got stalled as well. The trolley driver would get off the tolley with
an angry look around and muttering about 'the little bastards who did
this'. Around behind the trolley, trying to raise the catenary pole
back into place,  all the while the stop/go light had changed twice
so now cars on Lawrence were trying to make it through the
intersection as well as the ones on Western Avenue, everyone laying on
their horns and getting nowhere fast. The trolley guy (apparently sort
of new) was having a very hard time getting the catenary to stay up, 
and the Western Avenue streetcar guy came over to help him and show
him how to do it. Those guys -- CTA trolley and street car drivers -- 
could have cared less about the other traffic on both directions all
around them; they stood out there in the street talking about it all
the while the 'little bastards' had run off to hide, and watch in
secret, as they convulsed with laughter. They finally got the trolley
catenary re-established, all the while motorists in all directions 
were creeping past them, honking and cussing them. After four or five
minutes, and as many cycles of the stop/go lights, and the passengers
on both the trolley and streetcar sitting inside nonchalantly reading
their newspapers, oblivious one would think to the commotions around
them on the street, trolley was reconnected, the driver got back
inside and pulled away, then the streetcar driver got back on his
vehicle and drove away. Another minute or two after that and the
intersection was back to 'normal'. That was our idea of Halloween
'fun'.  Plus of course, soaping things and tossing rolls of toilet
paper around everywhere.   PAT]

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