---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <85008890-EB9A-428D-B6D3-C5CAFBB74330@roscom.com> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 22:32:40 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: With a $1,000 Price Tag, Apple's iPhone Crosses a Threshold With a $1,000 Price Tag, Apple's iPhone Crosses a Threshold SAN FRANCISCO - When Apple unveils its new top-of-the-line iPhone on Tuesday, it isn't just expected to offer features like infrared facial recognition and wireless charging for the first time. The company will also enter new territory on price: The latest phone will start at about $1,000, compared with the $769 minimum for its current top phone, the iPhone 7 Plus. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/10/technology/apple-iphone-price.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <opgqpt$9r6$1@dont-email.me> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:15:08 -0400 From: Arnie Goetchius <arnie.goetchius@invalid.domain> Subject: RoboCaller now Showing Legitimate Numbers in CallerID Starting about two weeks ago, some of the robo calls I receive are showing real, working numbers. As a routine matter, I submit these calls to nomorobo.com and they block any further calls from that number for people who have subscribed to nomorobo. Unfortunately, those working legitimate numbers are now blocked for anybody subscribing to nomorobo. I'm not sure of the significance of this new practice by the scammers. ***** Moderator's Note ***** I've seen that too: the numbers are always from radio station call-in lines. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <c10feec4-0081-49cb-9ebd-1dc347dda883@googlegroups.com> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:32:54 -0700 (PDT) From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Verizon gets OK to abandon printed phone books for Pa. landline customers The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission approved an order on Aug. 31 allowing Verizon to discontinue saturation deliveries of yellow pages and business white pages phone books. The regulatory commission eased the requirements on the distribution of residential phone books in 2010. article at: http://www.philly.com/philly/business/verizon-gets-ok-to-abandon-printed-phone-books-for-landline-customers-20170915.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <5717CA2E-B496-492D-B0B8-D8B03E3F7334@roscom.com> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 11:37:44 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: bunnie Huang and Ed Snowden describe a malware-resistant hardware Iphone privacy overlay In an engineering paper, bunnie Huang and Ed Snowden describe a malware-resistant hardware Iphone privacy overlay In July 2016, Andrew "bunnie" Huang and Edward Snowden presented their research on journalist-friendly mobile surveillance resistance at the first MIT Media Lab Forbidden Research conference; a little over a year later, they have published an extensive scholarly paper laying out the problems of detecting and interdicting malware in a mobile device, and presenting a gorgeously engineered hardware overlay that can be installed in an Iphone to physically monitor the networking components and report on their activity via a screen on a slim external case. Huang is a legendary hardware engineer -- his 2017 book, "The Hardware Hacker" is absolutely the best book on the subject you will find. Snowden, of course, is the world's leading public authority on the surveillance capabilities and tactics of governments. Together, they are an unbeatable team. https://boingboing.net/2017/09/08/impaired-judgment-phones.html ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 17 Sep 2017