---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <73D3F647-4F01-42FA-9C6A-BD2310BC09F6@roscom.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:20:15 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: FCC Aims to Improve Usage of Mobile Emergency Alert System FCC Aims to Improve Usage of Mobile Emergency Alert System By John D. McKinnon WASHINGTON - Federal regulators are expected to push wireless carriers to improve the targeting of local emergency alerts, in hopes that public-safety officials will use the system more. Local officials say they sometimes don't issue wireless alerts - which produce a distinctive buzzing and squawking in mobile devices - lest they needlessly alarm people who aren't in immediate danger. https://www.wsj.com/articles/fcc-aims-to-improve-usage-of-mobile-emergency-alert-system-1515597687 ------------------------------ Message-ID: <0eee7f84-05c8-4b59-bbef-59c50c04210d@googlegroups.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:48:33 -0800 (PST) From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: History--1960s--troubled times for telephony The telephone companies did not escape the social unrest and problems of society of the 1960s. One problem was anonymous obscene calls. Both Bell Telephone and General Telephone ran full page ads in LIFE magazine about them and what they were doing about it: https://books.google.com/books?id=aU8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=life%20may%2023%201969&pg=PA34#v=onepage&q&f=false (two pages) https://books.google.com/books?id=o1UEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=life%20jun%2024%201966&pg=PA89#v=onepage&q&f=false Another problem was pay phone vandalism. Again, both Bell and GTE ran full page ads in LIFE discussing the problem: https://books.google.com/books?id=1VAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=life%20Nov%2021%201969&pg=PA24#v=onepage&q&f=false (two pages) https://books.google.com/books?id=TEAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=life%20sept%2017%201971&pg=PA23-IA1#v=onepage&q&f=false (two pages) [You may also scroll through the rest of each issue.] ------------------------------ Message-ID: <1D6F150C-F877-4507-A853-5471FE1435EB@roscom.com> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 23:12:14 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: A Dog Walking App Accidentally Leaked People's Home Lock Codes A Dog Walking App Accidentally Leaked People's Home Lock Codes A popular app that connects dog owners and dog walkers accidentally revealed the lock box codes of at least 50 users, and the home addresses of at least 100. The information was posted on the website of Wag, an app that connects dog owners with walkers, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Journal said its reporters had viewed the records of more than 100 customers, including 50 lockbox codes, but that new records had appeared at least every day, meaning the total number could potentially be much larger. http://fortune.com/2018/01/09/wag-dog-walking-app-exposed-lock-codes/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 12 Jan 2018