[Cybertel-Ann] 8.24.7 :: Stealing Copper :: Stealing Wifi :: Stealing Sunrocket's Customers :: Govt Hidden From The People, By The People... ::

Fri Aug 24 10:55:55 PDT 2007

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“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional
constellation, it is that no official, high or petty,
can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics,
nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or
force citizens to confess by word or act their faith
therein.” — Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, West
Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319
U.S. 624 (1943)

U.S. Improves Broadband Penetration Rankings - By one
spot, from 25th to 24th..., DSLreports, 8/24/2007 
According to a report from Website Optimization, the
United States has improved their broadband penetration
ranking from twenty-fifth to twenty-fourth. Broadband
penetration in U.S. homes grew 0.2 percentage points
to 83.43% of all Internet...
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/US-Improves-Broadband-Penetration-Rankings-86825
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

Copper Thieves Keep Dying - Embarq latest to offer
reward..., DSLreports, 8/24/2007 
The rising price of copper has thieves stealing the
metal wherever they can, be that air conditioners,
home piping, phone wires or live electrical wires.
Embarq is the latest company to try to crack down on
the thefts by offering a $5,000 reward to...
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Copper-Thieves-Keep-Dying-86832
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/dsl.htm

Why Wi-Fi networks are floundering, America's Network,
8/24/2007 
Faced with weak user demand, AT&amp;T and other
telecoms are stepping up pressure on cities to foot
more of the bill for muni Wi-Fi projects
http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=451151&ref=25
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/muni.htm

Google CEO Says It Will 'Probably' Bid On Spectrum
Licenses, Techdirt, 8/24/2007 
Google has been making noise for some time about
getting its hands on some wireless spectrum licenses.
It's been behind a push to get the FCC to institute
"open access" rules for license winners in the
upcoming auction of 700 MHz spectrum, and the...
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070822/171724.shtml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w700.htm

Former FCC Chair Stumps For Spectrum, Internet news,
8/24/2007 
Hundt says 700MHz is the last spectrum left to sell
and it shouldn't fall in the hands of firms who don't
support net neutrality.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/147075742/3695826
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w700.htm

Can We Please Stop Arresting WiFi Users Using Open
Networks?, Techdirt, 8/24/2007 
We've had a bunch of stories over the last few years
of people getting arrested for using open WiFi access
and we still can't understand what crime has actually
been committed. Unfortunately, yet another person in
the UK has now been arrested for...
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070822/121141.shtml
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm

Is Wi-Fi Bandwidth Theft A Real Problem? - What
exactly can you be arrested for?, DSLreports,
8/24/2007 
Recently, there was another arrest made in the UK of a
man who was illegally using Wi-Fi at an unsecured
spot. This has prompted George Ou over at ZDNet to ask
an interesting question: if you have a Wi-Fi enabled
Skype phone which automatically...
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Is-WiFi-Bandwidth-Theft-A-Real-Problem-86884
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm

Eric Schmidt at PFF: what Internet freedom means to
us, Google, 8/24/2007 
Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Manager, Global
Communications and Public Affairs “Freedom” is a word
that gets used a lot in Washington, but what does it
mean, exactly, for Google and its users? Tuesday
night, our CEO Eric Schmidt told the Progress &...
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/147341080/eric-schmidt-at-pff-what-internet.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Comcast Responds To Traffic Shaping Accusations - But
chooses their words carefully...., DSLreports,
8/24/2007 
We (and other outlets we've spoken to) have been
trying to get Comcast to comment on reports that the
company has started using Sandvine gear to disrupt the
seeding of BitTorrent files. Comcast picked Light
Reading to issue their first denial of...
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Responds-To-Traffic-Shaping-Accusations-86816
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

EFF Challenges Bogus Patent on Internet Subdomains,
EFF, 8/24/2007 
Illegitimate Patent Used to Threaten Website Hosting
Companies San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) is challenging a bogus patent on
Internet subdomains that has been used to threaten
small businesses and innovators. Ideaflood,...
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2007_08.php#005412
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/

Another Whois-Privacy Stalemate, CircleID, 8/24/2007 
The report of the Whois Working Group was published
today. The Working Group could not achieve agreement
on how to reconcile privacy and data protection rights
with the interests of intellectual property holders
and law enforcement agencies. So the...
http://www.circleid.com/posts/another_whois_privacy_stalemate/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/whois.htm

Feds use robots.txt files to stay invisible online.
Lame., CNET, 8/24/2007 
Some federal government Web sites, including the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, are
trying to remain hidden online by blocking search
engines from indexing them. Not only is this lame, but
it's a good reason to ignore their...
http://news.com.com/8301-13578_3-9765451-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/

2007 OFCOM Communications Review, Telecom Industry and
Regulation, 8/24/2007 
The British regulator OFCOM released its 2007 review.
The report is worth reading ... here are a few of the
report's key points:The availability of broadband to
more than half of UK households has driven the
development of converged services and...
http://telcom2935.blogspot.com/2007/08/2007-ofcom-communications-review.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/

China seeks real-name registration for bloggers,
America's Network, 8/24/2007 
Blog service providers in China are "encouraged" to
register users with their real names and contact
information, according to a new government document
that tones down an earlier proposal banning anonymous
online blogging, an...
http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=451481&ref=25
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/china.htm

SoundExchange Gives Small Broadcasters A Break - At
least for a couple more years ... but they don't want
it, DSLreports, 8/24/2007 
After much lobbying and media coverage about the
negative effect of higher royalty rates on small
Internet radio broadcasters, SoundExchange put a halt
on realizing the rates until a better deal could be
worked out. It s now being reported that..
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/SoundExchange-Gives-Small-Broadcasters-A-Break-86865
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/carp.htm

Group sets fees for online broadcasters, America's
Network, 8/24/2007 
A music industry group said it would cap "per channel"
fees for major Internet radio companies streaming
music on multiple channels, an Associated Press report
said.
http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=451751&ref=25
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/carp.htm

US-CERT deputy director: Hacktivism attacks may rise,
CW, 8/24/2007 
The Estonian "cyber-riot" earlier this summer may a
look at the shape of things to come, according to the
deputy director of US-CERT. Michael Witt says that
such "hacktivism" could rise after the success of the
Estonian incident, and that it'll have an impact on
U.S....
http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/147288474/article.do
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/

Telecom Firms Helped With Government's Warrantless
Wiretaps, Wash Post, 8/24/2007 
The Bush administration acknowledged for the first
time that telecommunications companies assisted the
government's warrantless surveillance program and were
being sued as a result, an admission some legal
experts say could complicate the...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/23/AR2007082302056.html?nav=rss_technology
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm

Damages available under Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,
even though no "interruption of service", Internet
Cases, 8/24/2007 
Frees, Inc. v. McMillian, No. 05-1979, 2007 WL 2264457
(W.D. La. August 6, 2007) Plaintiff Frees, Inc. filed
suit against two of its former employees, McMillan and
Pierceall for, among other things, violation of the
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA"), 18...
http://www.internetcases.com/archives/2007/08/damages_availab_1.html
More Info:
http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm

Spam Spreads Storm Trojan Across Internet, eWeek,
8/24/2007 
The Storm worm spreads through daily spam ploys,
including e-cards and security logins.
http://feeds.ziffdavis.com/~r/ziffdavis/eweek/tech/~3/147068995/0,1759,2174160,00.asp
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/

Two more EarthLink deployments on hold, MuniWireless,
8/24/2007 
Muni networks in the twin beltway cities of Alexandria
and Arlington,Virginia, have joined cities in a
holding pattern as EarthLink determines its future in
the market.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/147528076/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/states/va.htm

Can small business count on VoIP?, CNET, 8/24/2007 
Last week's Skype outage left many small businesses in
the lurch and emphasized the importance of having a
backup for when IP services fail.
http://news.com.com/Can+small+business+count+on+VoIP/2100-7352_3-6204171.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/

Paying Skype users get a week's free service, CW,
8/24/2007 
Skype has decided to offer seven days of free service
to its premium paying customers in the wake of a
two-day outage of its peer-to-peer voice-over-IP
service.
http://feeds.computerworld.com/~r/Computerworld/News/~3/147372474/article.do
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/

SunRocket Sues Vonage Over Use of Customer List, Wash
Post, 8/24/2007 
When Internet phone start-up SunRocket suddenly closed
its doors last month, several competitors offered
special rates and other incentives to attract its
former customers. Now the company in charge of selling
SunRocket's assets has sued its...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/23/AR2007082302204.html?nav=rss_technology
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/

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