From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Tue Dec 1 09:13:20 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:13:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 12.1 :: Rabbit :: Sharp Decline :: Will Be Dead Soon :: SSN :: Message-ID: <294376.84179.qm@web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ ? ? ? ? ? ???CyberTelecom News? ? ? ? Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872 Comcast Data Usage Meter Launches, Comcast Today, we announced the pilot market launch of the Comcast data usage meter in the Portland, Oregon area. After a short period, we?ll roll it out nationally. It?s designed to be simple and easy to use and will help customers better understand how much data they consume in a month. (Note: the median usage for Comcast?s customers is about 2 to 4 GB per month.) http://blog.comcast.com/2009/12/comcast-data-usage-meter-launches.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/cable.htm NATOA Files Comments to the FCC on "Cost Estimates for Connecting Anchor Institutions to Fiber", NATOA NATOA filed comments today in response to the FCC?s National Broadband Plan Public Notice #12 seeking comments on ?Cost Estimates for Connecting Anchor Institutions to Fiber.?? The comments as filed and can be read here.? Please let me know if... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/natoa-news/~3/ESY7p31Wu3c/natoa-files-comments-to-the-fc.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm FCC Identifies Broadband Gaps, bandwidth reports A Harvard study commissioned by the FCC found that open access to broadband lines through local loop "unbundling" is one key factor in fostering widespread adoption of broadband in the US and other countries. http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0911/indextest.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm NTIA Awards Grants for Broadband Mapping and Planning, ntia NTIA announced that it has awarded grants to fund broadband mapping and planning activities in Alaska, Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Louisiana, and Missouri under NTIA?s State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program. The program, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will increase broadband access and adoption through better data collection and broadband planning. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2009/BBMappinggrants_AKCODEKSLAMO_091130.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm Connected Nation Receives Recovery Act Funding For Broadband Mapping and Planning Initiatives in Alaska and Kansas, Connected Nation Today, the Department of Commerce?s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced approximately $4 million in grant awards for Alaska and Kansas, enabling Connected Nation to launch comprehensive broadband mapping initiatives in partnership with those states. http://connectednation.com/in_the_news/the_blog/2009/11/connected-nation-receives-recovery-act.php More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm ALA files comments to NTIA and RUS on broadband stimulus programs, ALA ALA files comments to NTIA and RUS on broadband stimulus programs http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/november2009/comments_wo.cfm?persistent=0&expy_dt= More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm A new 'TV Guide' to children's 'television', Net Family News For those of us not using search engines to find TV shows on the Web and wishing for a TV Guide of the Web, as Adam Thierer over at TechLiberation.com put it, there is now a TV Guide of the Web: Clicker.com. What distinguishes it from regular search engines is it's a search engine for full-length shows ? not trailers or snippets. You can browse by category too; e.g., you'll find Looney Tunes or "Leave It To Beaver" http://www.netfamilynews.org/2009/11/new-tv-guide-to-childrens-television.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/fcc.htm Net Neutrality: War of the Words, Center for Internet and Society The debate over net neutrality is rapidly devolving into a war of the words--increasingly, words that take the form of hyperbole. Case in point: as reported last week by the Washington Post?s Cecilia Kang, White House Deputy Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin told attendees at a recent conference that the Obama administration is committed not only to neutrality but to global free speech, and that indeed, neutrality http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6367 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Wikipedia denies editors' exodus, BBC The online encyclopaedia disputes claims that the numbers of people editing Wikipedia are in sharp decline. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/8382477.stm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ Verizon CEO: Hulu Will Be Dead Soon - Leading Internet video service just a fad..., dslreports According to Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, the telco isn't worried about the threat Hulu poses to their freshly created TV empire, because Hulu will probably be dead in a year or two from now. "This is in for the next eight to twelve months and in two years it won't matter because the world will have moved on," the CEO was recently quoted as saying. He might not be wrong -- Hulu very well could be headed for also-ran status http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-CEO-Hulu-Will-Be-Dead-Soon-105669 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/video.htm Should an Independent Regulatory Agency Head Be Visiting the White House This Often?, Tech Lib Front Move over, health care reform, climate change, and the economy. Judging by White House visits by various government agency heads, the Obama administration instead appears preoccupied with the re-regulation of communications, media, and the Internet. The Administration has just released logs of all visitors to the White House and Executive Office Buildings from Obama?s inauguration through August?including a http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techliberation/~3/yP9QEqoRJ3c/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm Scammers get better tools for tapping social networks, CW New tools capable of quickly finding, gathering and correlating information about individuals from social networking sites and other public sources are giving online scammers a powerful new weapon, say security researchers. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141601/Scammers_get_better_tools_for_tapping_social_networks?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/socialnetworks.htm FHH to FCC: Think Again, CommLawBlog Here, the FCC?s new form would require each and every individual with an ?attributable interest? in a broadcast licensee to cough up his/her social security number to the Commission (in order to get themselves FCC Registration Numbers ? or FRNs ? which they would then have to include in the new Form 323). Forcing disclosure of such sensitive Identity-Theft-Prone information as SSNs is certainly a new and significant regulatory burden. http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/CommLawBlog/~3/DwcYCroGze4/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/idtheft.htm Court orders spam network to pay $15.2M, CW A U.S. district court judge has ordered the largest "spam gang" in the world to pay nearly $15.2 million for sending unsolicited e-mail messages marketing male-enhancement pills, prescription drugs and weight-loss supplements, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141599/Court_orders_spam_network_to_pay_15.2M?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/enforce.htm US Court Levies $15 Million Fine Against Spammer, CircleID Earlier this year, the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs, the US Federal Trade Commission, and the Australian CMA broke up a large fake drug spam ring known as Herbal Kings, run by New Zealander Lance Atkinson. The NZ government fined him NZ$108,000 (about US$80,000) which, while a substantial fine, seemed pretty small compared to the amount of money he must have made. But today, at the FTC's http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091130_us_court_15_million_fine_against_spammer/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/enforce.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. Announce only list information available at? www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo? AUP :: www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm#aup Cybertelecom is Off-the-Record. Otherwise play nicely. Cybertelecom? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Link to us! www.cybertelecom.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Fri Dec 4 11:00:17 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 11:00:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 12.4 :: Uncle! :: All IP All the Time :: Ready, Fire, Aim :: Hogs and Unicorns :: It's Not About the Money :: Message-ID: <752746.78149.qm@web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ Parties Asked To Comment on Analytical Framework Necessary To Resolve Issues in the Special Access Notice of Proposed, Fed Reg This document invites interested parties to comment on the appropriate analytical framework for examining the various issues that have been raised in the rulemaking proceeding on special access services pending before the Commission. http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-12-04-E9-29019 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ Future Broadband Deployment: Columbia Institute for Teleinformation Report, FCC One of the most exciting parts of the national broadband plan project has been the opportunity, through our workshops and research projects, to hear and learn from the preeminent experts in the field. This summer, we asked the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (?CITI?) based at Columbia Business School in New York to review http://blog.broadband.gov/blog/index.jsp?entryId=16645 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm FCC Ponders Moving From PSTN To IP Voice - Wants input on how to make it happen..., dslreports The FCC has issued a public notice (pdf) requesting input on precisely what it would take to migrate the nation from its legacy circuit-switched phone systems to an all-IP voice network. "In identifying the appropriate areas of inquiry, we seek to understand which policies and regulatory structures may facilitate, and which may hinder, the efficient http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Ponders-Moving-From-PSTN-To-IP-Voice-105791 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm An Open Letter To Blair Levin On The Subject of National Broadband Public Notices, Tales from the Sausage Factory Dear Blair: I surrender! I admit defeat. I cry ?uncle.? You win. Despite my earlier doubts, I am now prepared to say the National Broadband Plan process is the most open, transparent, comprehensive, bestest and wonderfullest procee... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1745 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Ready, Fire, Aim: GAO Issues Warning on Broadband Stimulus Grants, Tech Lib Front November was certainly a bad month, public relations-wise, for the Administration?s stimulus program, what with claims that the program had created huge new numbers of jobs debunked. (Who would have guessed that numbers given for Arizona?s 15th congressional district or Minnesota?s 57th district were wrong?) But, as pointed out last http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techliberation/~3/op90ghebHCY/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm The "Problem of Proportionality" in Debates about Online Privacy and Child Safety, PFF The Internet is massive. That's the 'no-duh' statement of the year, right? But seriously, the sheer volume of transactions (both economic and non-economic) is simply staggering. Consider a few factoids to give you a flavor of just how much is going on out there: http://blog.pff.org/archives/2009/11/the_problem_of_proportionality_in_debates_about_on.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm 'How to bully-proof yourself on Facebook', NetFamily News Here are some great social-networking-specific tips from Facebook's director of public policy, Europe. There's just one key point missing, I think, because of the 2007 finding that "youth who engage in online aggressive behavior by making rude or nasty comments or frequently embarrassing others are more than twice as likely to report online http://www.netfamilynews.org/2009/12/how-to-bully-proof-yourself-on-facebook.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Bob Barr Denounces Cyberbullying Criminalization, PFF Bob Barr, the four term Republican Georgia congressman turned ACLU activist and 2008 Libertarian Presidential candidate, has denounced Rep. Linda S?nchez's (D-CA) "Megan Meier Cyber Bullying Prevention Act" (H.R. 1966) in particularly harsh terms: http://blog.pff.org/archives/2009/12/bob_barr_denounces_cyberbullying_criminalization.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Not just digital natives & immigrants!, NetFamily News It makes sense that news media reports about how youth use technology are both produced and consumed through adult lenses. Many news reporters grew up in a very different (mass media) environment, as did a lot of parents, educators, and other news consumers. So we're seeing and participating in a distorted picture of social media and http://www.netfamilynews.org/2009/12/not-just-digital-natives-immigrants.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Technology boosts literacy skills, BBC Using social network websites and texting improves core writing skills, says the National Literacy Trust. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/8392653.stm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/literacy.htm "Bandwidth hogs" join unicorns in realm of mythical creatures, Ars Technica There's a spectre haunting Internet service providers?the spectre of the "bandwidth hog." But does the mythical beast really exist? One telecom analyst is dubious, and he's calling out the ISPs. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/bandwidth-hogs-dont-even-exist-says-analyst.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Google Says Public DNS Is About Speed, Not Ads, Gigaom Google today launched a product called Google Public DNS that can be installed as an alternative to the DNS systems offered by network providers. If you want to configure your network to use it, go here. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/nXY6VHHvAvc/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ Google launches alternative DNS resolver, CW Google has created a new system to resolve domain name system queries that the company claims will speed up Web browsing for end users, as well as make it more secure. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141751/Google_launches_alternative_DNS_resolver?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ Latest Consumer Reports Survey Not Kind To AT&T - Company ranked dead last for wireless satisfaction in 19 of 24 cities, dslreports Straight off of AT&T and Verizon's multi-week network quality snark fest, Consumer Reports has issued their latest survey of wireless carriers and phones, and it probably won't make AT&T particularly happy. The survey itself is available to subscribers only, but we can tell you that the findings generally mirror other recent surveys of the http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Latest-Consumer-Reports-Survey-Not-Kind-To-ATT-105739 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm AT&T customer satisfaction tanks, CW AT&T received some bad news from Consumer Reports this week, as the magazine's latest survey shows that the carrier now has the lowest level of customer satisfaction in the United States. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141671/AT_T_customer_satisfaction_tanks?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm Sens. Feinstein And Durbin Specifically Try To Carve Citizen Journalists Out Of Shield Law, Techdirt There was a lot of reasonable concern earlier this year when a much needed federal shield law proposal appeared to ignore participatory journalists and only cover those employed by major media companies. After people complained about this we were relieved to see Senators Chuck Schumer and Arlen Specter change the bill to cover http://techdirt.com/articles/20091202/1823367171.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ Murdoch Ramps Up Attack on Internet Freeloaders, Internet News News Corp. boss takes paid content message to Washington as regulators mull action on the journalism front. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/Fc5vNHeiBSU/3850386 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm SLAPP Me Baby, One More Time, Citizen's Media California SLAPP jurisprudence is the gift that keeps on giving, especially for weary bloggers looking for something to write about. (SLAPP stands for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. You can read all about them in our Legal Guide.)Our http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenMediaLawProject/~3/3YYKVm71vPw/slapp-me-baby-one-more-time More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Google allows publishers to limit free content, Globe and Mail Company makes concession to increasingly disgruntled media industry http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/vM6hf9kfwFo/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Free Content Undermines Democracy?, Techdirt A journalism professor by the name of Tim Luckhurst is claiming that newspaper paywalls are needed to preserve democracy, and that free content online undermines democracy. We've heard this argument before, and it makes no more sense now than when it was first raised. The basic argument is that free content online isn't bringing in enough http://techdirt.com/articles/20091130/0621387128.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Cisco IPTV Broadcast: Annual Security Report Spotlights Cybercriminal's New Playground - Social Media, CISCO What: On Tuesday, December. 8, security executives and researchers from Cisco will discuss findings from the Cisco 2009 Annual Security Report, reviewing security trends over the past year and implications for the future. The live broadcast will highlight the following: Social Networking: Cisco experts explain how http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2009/prod_120309.html?CMP=AF17154&vs_f=News at Cisco:+Press+Releases+and+Features&vs_p=News at Cisco:+Press+Releases+and+Features&vs_k=1 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/socialnetworks.htm New study calls for cybersecurity overhaul in U.S., CW The U.S. government and private businesses need to overhaul the way they look at cybersecurity, with the government offering businesses new incentives to fix security problems, the Internet Security Alliance said. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141762/New_study_calls_for_cybersecurity_overhaul_in_U.S.?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/ Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spying Records Would 'Shock,' 'Confuse' Consumers, Wired Verizon and Yahoo oppose a FOIA request for the companies' menus of surveillance prices and services it offers the government, like wiretaps and pen registers. http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/ahgADkfrdl0/wiretap-prices More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm Graduate Student Unveils Sprint's GPS Sharing With Feds - Eight million 'pings' to user tracking database in 13 months..., dslreports Blogger Christopher Soghoian is raising eyebrows this week with a recording of a Sprint executive at a conference exploring how Sprint has been using a new portal to give user GPS data to law enforcement agents an astounding 8 million times over a thirteen month span. The disclosure of course immediately raised questions over what kind of http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Graduate-Student-Unveils-Sprints-GPS-Sharing-With-Feds-105749 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm NY predators deleted from Facebook, MySpace, NetFamily News The state of New York has made it easier for social network sites that work with it to deleted sex offenders registered in that state. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo this week announced that two sites that do use the state's database to check for predators, MySpace and Facebook, have purged the profiles of more than 3,500 sex offenders http://www.netfamilynews.org/2009/12/ny-predators-deleted-from-facebook.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/child.htm Real World Arrest for Virtual World Crime, Ask Mariam A cybercriminal in the UK has been arrested for phishing attacks and theft of virtual goods from players of the online game, Runescape. As described in this online news story, the capture of this digital thief is the first of its kind. The case represents collaboration between the owners of the website and the e-crime's unit of the real world British http://community.norton.com/t5/Ask-Marian/Real-World-Arrest-for-Virtual-World-Crime/ba-p/178886 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm US-CERT Sees Danger Lurking in SSL-VPN, Internet News From the blogs: The security authority says it's found a potentially threatening flaw in major vendors' SSL-VPN implementations. Do we worry now? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/Qe_6UP6gmIg/3850886 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/vulnerable.htm Wisconsin Data Shows AT&T's 'Franchise Reform' Was A Joke - Now consumers get higher prices AND no consumer protection laws..., dslreports We've discussed how a significant number of states passed new state level video franchise laws at the behest of phone company lobbyists, but didn't really realize what they were signing up for. Bills that consumers were told would result in lower TV prices by making it easier for phone companies to jump into the TV business, in many cases were little more than phone company wish lists -- aimed at legalizing the cherry picking of next-gen broadband http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Wisconsin-Data-Shows-ATTs-Franchise-Reform-Was-A-Joke-105784 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/states/wi.htm FCC Aims To Expand USF - But again, they probably should bother to fix it first...., dslreports For years we've discussed how the Universal Service Fund (USF) is perhaps one of the worst examples of government dysfunction and corporate abuse, even by the government's own admission. The fund, which customers have poured billions in fees into over the least decade -- is designed to help bring phone service (not broadband) to http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Aims-To-Expand-USF-105752 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/usf/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. Announce only list information available at www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo AUP :: www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm#aup Cybertelecom is Off-the-Record. Otherwise play nicely. Cybertelecom Link to us! www.cybertelecom.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Tue Dec 8 09:14:33 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:14:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 12.8 :: Distracted Driving :: Bandwidth Hogs and Unicorns :: We're Not Creepy! :: Western Union & AP :: Into the Swamp :: Confused Customers :: Message-ID: <825691.76738.qm@web37908.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ ? ? ? ? ? ???CyberTelecom News? ? ? ? Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ ?The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn?t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.? Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive, Microsoft ADA Online: Is a Website a "Place of Public Accommodation"?, Citizen's Media A lawsuit filed in October claims that Sony's online games?ranging from Everquest and Star Wars Galaxies to Wheel of Fortune?do not provide tools to allow visually impaired users to successfully play the games, and thus violate both the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and California's civil rights law. Stern v. Sony Corp. of America, 09-cv-o7710 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 23, 2009). http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenMediaLawProject/~3/cniilHPI6cs/ada-online-website-place-public-accommodation More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ada/ ALA urges FCC to consider role of libraries in economic development, ALA ALA urges FCC to consider role of libraries in economic development http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/december2009/fcc_wo.cfm?persistent=0&expy_dt= More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm FCC Launches Major Rewrite Of Phone Rules, CommLawBlog The telephone system formerly relied on the technology called ?circuit switching?: by dialing a number, a caller caused the equipment to set up a temporary, private connection with the person being called. This is inherently an analog technology. Now, however, calls are increasingly http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/CommLawBlog/~3/iPsqEBohuS8/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Could the FCC Structure A Broadcaster Clearance Auction Without Congress? Yeah, actually . . ., Tales from the Sausage Factory Progress and Freedom Foundation has recently published this piece by Adam Theirer and Barbara Esbin on how encouraging a deal between broadcasters and wireless providers to reduce the spectrum used by broadcasters and auction more spectrum for wir... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1757 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm Sprint Sued For Distracted Driving Death - Mother's daughter sues carrier, phone manufacturer for accident, dslreports Jennifer Smith's mother sadly died last year when she was hit by a driver who was distracted while talking on their cellphone. According to the New York Times, Smith is suing both Sprint and the maker of the cellphone (Samsung) for failing to adequately warn consumers of the dangers of driving while talking (or worse texting). "They should've told people from the beginning there was a real risk, and this would ve never http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Sprint-Sued-For-Distracted-Driving-Death-105828 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm Parents of Dead Teen Sue School Over Sexting Images, Wired The parents of a teenage girl who committed suicide last year are suing the girl?s ex-boyfriend and several other former high school classmates who circulated a nude photo of her and harassed her about the image. http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/31zeMahABes/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Virtual-world news update, Net Family News A lot of news about virtual worlds has crossed my laptop lately, so ? since this is a big growth sector of cyberspace (with the global VW population growing from 186.5 million now to 638 million by 2015, according to Strategy Analytics) ? I thought I'd package it up for you.... http://www.netfamilynews.org/2009/12/virtual-world-news-update.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Excellent new resources from the FTC, Stay Safe Online Of the many online safety resources available for parents and kids, the Federal Trade Commission?s web resources are some of the best. Two new FTC resources continue their efforts to bring useable, comprehensive information to consumers. http://www.staysafeonline.org/blog/excellent-new-resources-ftc More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm "Bandwidth Hogs" Join Unicorns in Realm of Mythical Creatures, MAP One of the major themes of the Network Neutrality debate is the claim that Network Neutrality rules will require carriers to establish bandwidth caps and differential pricing for different tiers of service. This article describes why one prominent analyst thinks that bandwidth caps will not be necessary. http://www.mediaaccess.orghttp//www.mediaaccess.org/roadmap/bandwidth-hogs-join-unicorns-in-realm-of-mythical-creatures More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm The Bandwidth Hog Does Not Exist - One blogger offers an invitation for ISPs to prove otherwise, dslreports For years, ISP lobbyists and their hired mouthpieces have pushed the bogus concept of the "Exaflood", or the idea that bandwidth demand is growing so quickly, ISPs can't possibly keep up unless they get X. Usually X in this equation is fewer consumer protections, no price caps, the right to charge incredibly high overage fees, not having to pay taxes -- etc. You get the point. Real science from outside lobbyist land, however, http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/The-Bandwidth-Hog-Does-Not-Exist-105809 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/tiers.htm Global Policy Proposal for the Allocation of IPv4 Blocks to Regional Internet Registries - Background Report, ICANN No description http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-12may09-en.htm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm Behavioral Ad Industry: We're Not Creepy! - New ad campaign designed to fend off consumer protection laws..., dslreports Most consumers have made it pretty clear that they don't like the idea of having their online browsing activity tracked, stored and used to sell them additional crap -- particularly without their consent. That hasn't stopped ISPs from quietly selling your clickstream data (then denying it), and while consumer fears have temporarily shelved behavioral advertising efforts like Phorm or NebuAD, the billions in untapped revenues http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Behavioral-Ad-Industry-Were-Not-Creepy-105801 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ecom/advertising.htm Iran chokes off Internet on eve of student rallies, Globe and Mail Government also warns foreign journalists to stay in their offices for the next three days http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGlobeAndMail-Technology/~3/F-OJwTc3Qqg/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/iran.htm Interesting TV Viewing Stats from Nielsen, Cabletechtalk The latest ?Three Screens? report from Nielsen today shows that despite repeated claims of rampant ?cord cutting? from the media, the overwhelming majority of video is still consumed on good old fashioned televisions, and without time shifting from DVRS.? Live TV is still the number one choice for viewing. http://www.cabletechtalk.com/cable-programming/2009/12/07/interesting-tv-viewing-stats-from-nielsen/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/video.htm The Telegraph And Natural Monopolies In Communications, Techdirt A bunch of folks have sent in Matthew Lasar's excellent look back at some of the early days of the telegraph system and how it parallels some questions that we face today over things like net neutrality. The basic story is that Western Union worked out a way to gain a monopoly on the telegraph, and then worked out a deal with the Associated Press, whereby all AP papers would use Western Union, and none would support t http://techdirt.com/articles/20091204/0003037194.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/telegraph.htm F.T.C. Wades Into the Swamp of Online Privacy, NYT The Federal Trade Commission hosts a conference on online privacy, and the conversation gets testy. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=6f33792cbd7135d5415e4351e2ddc070 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/ FTC to consider stricter online privacy rules, CW The U.S. Federal Trade Commission plans to take a hard look at how it enforces consumer privacy standards in the coming months, with new rules for online companies possibly on the way, the agency's chairman said on Monday. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141911/FTC_to_consider_stricter_online_privacy_rules?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/ Yahoo Doesn't Want You To Know Its Spying Price List; Issues DMCA Takedown, Techdirt Last week, well-known privacy activist, Chris Soghoian, got a lot of attention for revealing some data on how often Sprint was sharing GPS data with the government. However, perhaps an even more interesting part of his detailed writeup about various service providers and how they provide data to the government, was his attempt to uncover how much various service providers charge the government. This was interesting, http://techdirt.com/articles/20091206/2329287228.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm Cisco: Social Media Newest Playground for Cybercriminals, CISCO Cisco today issued its Annual Security Report for 2009, which highlights the impact of social media, particularly social networking, on network security and explores the critical role that people, not technology, play in creating opportunities for cybercriminals. The Annual Security Report also includes winners of the 2009 Cisco? Cybercrime ... http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2009/prod_120809.html?CMP=AF17154&vs_f=News at Cisco:+Press+Releases+and+Features&vs_p=News at Cisco:+Press+Releases+and+Features&vs_k=1 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm WPA Cracker: Test WPA-PSK Networks In 20 Minutes - 400 servers, 135 million word dictionary: $17, dslreports IDG News Service notes that security researcher has launched a new cloud-based computing service that will test your WPA-secured Wi-Fi network for chinks in its armor. Creatively dubbed WPA Cracker, the service speeds up the process of testing a WPA-PSK protected wireless networks against dictionary attacks. Whereas such a test could take five days or more on a dual-core PC, WPA Cracker gives customers http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/WPA-Cracker-Test-WPAPSK-Networks-In-20-Minutes-105848 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/wifi/security.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. Announce only list information available at? www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo? AUP :: www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm#aup Cybertelecom is Off-the-Record. Otherwise play nicely. Cybertelecom? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Link to us! www.cybertelecom.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Thu Dec 10 09:08:00 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:08:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 12.10 :: Stop Streaming! Dammit! :: a complete contortion :: ended in divorce :: tax the rich :: all my friends friends :: No one knows you're a dog except US prosecutors :: Message-ID: <896891.84021.qm@web37907.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ ? ? ? ? ? ???CyberTelecom News? ? ? ? Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ AT&T Exec: Stop Streaming, Dammit!, Gigaom AT&T?s Ralph de la Vega used today?s UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York to deliver a message to the carrier?s data-hungry mobile users: We will have ways of modifying ? or monetizing ? your behavior. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/dAU-iTeHpNY/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w3g.htm 50% of youth report ?digital abuse?, Safekinds A study conducted by the Associated Press and MTV found that 50% of 14 to 24 year-olds have experienced some type of digital abuse. The study, released on Thursday, also found that 30% had either sent or received nude photos on their cell phones or online. But when you break down the numbers, 10% actually sent such messages, which is in line with a previous http://www.safekids.com/2009/12/08/50-of-youth-report-digital-abuse/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Hey Mom, is it ok if I send your tax forms to a guy named "SlickWolffy"?, Ask Mariam Stop being a cheap parent and give your kids a legal way to get music and videos. If you don't, you're contributing towards your child becoming a music pirate and possibly risking personal identity theft. http://community.norton.com/t5/Ask-Marian/Hey-Mom-is-it-ok-if-I-send-your-tax-forms-to-a-guy-named-quot/ba-p/181729 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm NBC Universal: For Neutrality Before They Were Against It - Do what we say now, not what we used to say..., dslreports It's not often you'll see journalists actually remember what a company has said historically on a subject in order to provide a little context (and to illustrate how, a majority of the time, companies are incredibly full of crap). But someone went back to look at NBC Universal's positions on network neutrality before they wanted to merge with Comcast, and not too surprisingly http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/NBC-Universal-For-Neutrality-Before-They-Were-Against-It-105893 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Net Neutrality Regulation & the First Amendment, Tech Lib Front One of the more troubling aspects of the contentious debate over Net neutrality regulation is the way some proponents have sought to cast Net neutrality as ?the Internet?s First Amendment.? As a die-hard free speech advocate, I find this truly outrageous and a complete contortion of the true purpose of the First Amendment.? As I have argued here before, it is http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techliberation/~3/eeOU_n7Q9lQ/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm FCC Technical Advisory Process slideset, CAIDA This slideset, "Historical and Architectural Context for Traffic Management Needs Today" was presented at the FCC Technical Advisory Process workshop on December 8, 2009. http://www.caida.org/publications/presentations/2009/traffic_historical_context/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralnprm.htm Why an Open Government Matters, OSTP Each year millions of visitors stream through the rotunda of the National Archives in Washington, DC, to view the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence.? These foundational documents of our democracy are on public display because of the importance of openness in government. http://blog.ostp.gov/2009/12/09/why-an-open-government-matters/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/ White House Releases Open Government Directive, EPIC The White House announced a new Directive to promote transparency, collaboration, and accountability across the federal government. The Directive builds on President Obama's Open Government Memo, issued in January 2009. The Directive will establish benchmarks, and require agencies to create new websites and plans to promote transparency. Competitions are http://epic.org/2009/12/white-house-releases-open-gove.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/ AOL Quietly Returns to Life on Its Own, NYT The long, chaotic and star-crossed relationship between AOL and Time Warner finally ended in divorce. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=4f251dc30a3e1985261ded22429ca4f6 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/aol.htm AT&T to Urge Customers to Use Less Wireless Data, NYT Unprecedented growth in wireless data use is prompting AT&T to consider ways to urge consumers to conserve. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=22526eb51e32e56f0b45e33391b40ce3 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/att.htm What should the government do to help journalism?, OJR Last week's Federal Trade Commission hearings on the journalism industry beg raise the question: Just what should the U.S. federal government be doing, if anything, to help the journalism industry? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ojr-full/~3/AxylMF9JeK8/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Facebook privacy changes draw mixed reviews, CW Facebook's revamped privacy settings will push more user data onto the Internet and, in some cases, make privacy protection harder for Facebook users, digital civil liberties experts said. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142042/Facebook_privacy_changes_draw_mixed_reviews?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/ For Facebook, More Privacy Means More Public, Gigaom Only 15-20 percent of Facebook?s 350 million users have ever modified their privacy settings, the company said. As the site today revises its privacy settings to pop up every single time a user posts an item, that portion will surely go up. But Facebook won?t be any more private. In fact, unless a user has ever changed a setting or does so now, most everything for http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/6EFUhSlWsbU/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/ Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, EFF Five months after it first announced coming privacy changes this past summer, Facebook is finally rolling out a new set of revamped privacy settings for its 350 million users. The social networking site has rightly been criticized for its confusing privacy settings, most notably in a must-read report by the Canadian Privacy Commissioner issued in July and most recently http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/facebooks-new-privacy-changes-good-bad-and-ugly More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/socialnetworks.htm Obama Pressured to Put Cyber Security Back on Top of the Agenda, Circleid Peter Warren reporting at the Guradian: "For the past month or so a curious game has been going on in the world of rumour and uncertainty that passes for the intelligence community. At the heart of it is an attempt to force the US president, Barack Obama, to put cyber security back to the top of his agenda and to usher in increased monitoring of the internet. Despite an http://www.circleid.com/posts/obama_pressured_to_put_cyber_security_back_on_top/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/ It's Safe to be a Dog on the Internet Again: Lori Drew Prosecution Terminated, Cybertelecom "On the Internet, no one knows whether you're a dog." Of course, if you are a dog, and you are fibbing about it, according to the US Attorneys Office out in California you're a felon and should be sent to the dog pound. Fortunately, there's a new dog in town who seems to be howling a different tune. Bad facts make for bad law. The unfortunate alleged facts of this case involved fibbing about http://cybertelecom.blogspot.com/2009/12/its-safe-to-be-dog-on-internet-again.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crime.htm Consumer Alert: Beware of "SMiShing", CTIA CTIA's advocacy group, MyWireless.org, issued a warning to consumers yesterday to be aware of ?SMiShing,? criminal identity theft attacks on your mobile device.? The phrase is a combination of "Short Message Service" (commonly known as text messaging) and email "Phishing." http://www.ctia.org/blog/index.cfm/2009/12/9/Consumer-Alert-Beware-of-SMiShing More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/fcc.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. Announce only list information available at? www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo? AUP :: www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm#aup Cybertelecom is Off-the-Record. Otherwise play nicely. Cybertelecom? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Link to us! www.cybertelecom.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Tue Dec 15 10:50:25 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:50:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 12.15 :: Stop Ignoring Complaints :: Tired Ideas :: iEducation :: Bogus-hoo! :: ScareWare :: Message-ID: <273042.70259.qm@web37907.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ GAO to FCC: Wireless users need more protection, CNET Government Accountability Office says Thursday that the FCC needs to do more to protect subscribers who are dissatisfied with their service. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-10413543-266.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-PoliticsandLaw More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadand/wireless.htm Broadband networks supporting innovation, OECD New innovations such as smart electrical grids, tele-medicine, intelligent transportation networks, interactive learning and cloud computing will require fast communication networks to operate efficiently. Government investment in new fibre networks could be justified based on just small direct benefits in just four key sectors of the http://www.oecd.org/department/0,3355,en_2649_34223_1_1_1_1_1,00.html?rssChId=34223#44247376 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ GAO: FCC Fails To Protect Wireless Consumers - As high prices and billing complaints top user frustrations, dslreports According to a new study (pdf) by The General Accounting Office, the FCC doesn't do enough to follow up on consumer complaints about wireless service, consistently fails to protect consumers from anti-competitive behavior by wireless carriers, and needs to do a better job enforcing consumer protection rules. While the report does http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/GAO-FCC-Fails-To-Protect-Wireless-Consumers-105922 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm GAO to FCC: Stop Ignoring Wireless Consumer Complaints, Ecommerce Times Federal regulators receive tens of thousands of customer complaints about wireless services every year, but don't do enough to follow up or protect consumers who have problems with their mobile carriers, government auditors found. In a report released Thursday, the Government Accountability Office said the Federal Communications Commission needs to ramp up http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/68882.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm Would Your Child Tell You If He/She Was Being Bullied?, Family and Child Safety Blog I think there are two main reasons why teens are secretive about what they do online. First, teens need a sense of privacy. http://blog.safetyclicks.com/2009/12/11/would-your-child-tell-you-if-he-she-was-being-bullied/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm LG Has a Fresh Take on Cellphone Responsibility, Internet Safety LG has taken a fresh approach to cyberbullying and other cell-related dangers by infusing some much needed humor into the discussion. And James Lipton is pretty much always a winner as a chic cultural landmark. For the full slate of videos, visit youtube.com/GiveItaPonder. http://blog.internetsafety.com/2009/12/14/lg-has-a-fresh-take-on-cellphone-responsibility/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm New studies find censorship rising, Google Last week, Dr. Ron Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, came to the Googleplex in Mountain View to give a presentation on the Open Internet Initiative's recent studies on the policies and technologies that repressive governments are using to censor Internet content. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/YHT09UC6o1Y/new-studies-find-censorship-rising.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm FTC's milestone report on virtual worlds, Net Family News This is pioneering stuff on the part of the US government. The Federal Trade Commission today sent to Congress its close study of 27 online virtual worlds ? 14 for children under 13 and 13 aimed at teens and adults ? looking at the level of sexually explicit and violent content and what the VWs were doing to protect children from it. I think it's important for parents to keep in mind when reading the study or just the highlights here that "content" in virtual worlds http://www.netfamilynews.org/2009/12/ftcs-milestone-report-on-virtual-worlds.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/virtual.htm Feds Cite Child Safety Hazards on Virtual Worlds, Internet News Agency releases report detailing shortcomings in online child safety mechanisms http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/38whr7Um69U/3852916 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/virtual.htm FTC drags out old, tired ideas for protecting kids online, Ars Technica The Federal Trade Commission is always on the lookout for what could be improved "for the children!" and a recent report highlights the newest areas of concern: virtual worlds. In its report released Thursday, the FTC announced the downright shocking news that there is sexually explicit and http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/ftc-drags-out-old-tired-ideas-for-protecting-kids-online.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/virtual.htm ACLU: Setting the Record Straight on Net Neutrality, Save the Internet The cable industry is saying that Network Neutrality would violate the First Amendment because it would prohibit them from ?expressing themselves? by distorting the flow of information over the Internet wires they control. http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/09/12/14/aclu-setting-record-straight-net-neutrality More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Broadband penetration still lags in U.S., CW The United States still lags behind several developed countries in broadband penetration despite experiencing solid growth over the past year, according to new data released by the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142159/Broadband_penetration_still_lags_in_U.S.?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm iPod Touches in the classroom, Net Family News The Salisbury Post tells the story of how a school district in North Carolina got its start with mobile devices in the classroom ? in this case, iPod Touches narrower than "a deck of cards," weighing a little over 4 ounces, and putting "the complete works of Shakespeare, movies, a dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia, SAT preparation http://www.netfamilynews.org/2009/12/ipod-touches-in-classroom.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/education.htm 'Lost' Bush e-mail settlement requires that White House reveal IT practices, CW The White House has settled lawsuits from advocacy groups over millions of missing e-mails, the legacy of what may have been one of messiest e-mail platform migrations ever. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142268/_Lost_Bush_e_mail_settlement_requires_that_White_House_reveal_IT_practices_?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/ Verizon Kindly Forgives Kid's $21,917 3G Bandwidth Bill - What, you don't think $20k for 1.4GB of data use is fair?, dslreports We were starting to wonder why we'd gone a whole month without someone having to take out a second mortgage to pay their wireless broadband bill. Not to disappoint, the UPI notes how a 13-year-old boy racked up a $21,917 Verizon Wireless bill. How? The kid downloaded 1.4 million kilobytes (just 1.4GB) of data last month on his father's http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Kindly-Forgives-Kids-21917-3G-Bandwidth-Bill-105978 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/verizon.htm Latest Bogus DMCA Takedown Award Winner: Yahoo!, EFF "Yahoo isn?t happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides law enforcement agencies has leaked onto the web." That's how WIRED's Threat Level blog put it when describing Yahoo's recent effort to censor its own law enforcement compliance guide off the Internet using a bogus DMCA takedown demand. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/todays-bogus-dmca-takedown-award-winner-yahoo More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm Man Bites Dog: Prosecutor Pays a Price for Chasing Commenters, Citizen's Media Unfortunately, it's become an increasingly common occurrence: a public official, outraged over something posted about him/her anonymously on the Internet, asks a court to issue a subpoena to find out the identity of the poster(s). The Legal Threats Database contains a number of examples, and the "Legal Protections for Anonymous Speech" section of the Legal Guide lays out the legal analyses that courts have used to evaluate these subpoenas. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenMediaLawProject/~3/ck_I-K7nw4U/man-bites-dog-prosecutor-pays-price-chasing-commenters More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/newmedia.htm Isn't It Ironic? The Fourth Estate's Assault on Free Speech, Center for Internet and Society It?s nothing new for media organizations to employ lofty rhetoric about the role of the press in democracy to advocate special legal privileges. Likewise, it?s nothing new for content creators to try to limit the speech rights of others in order to garner more profit. What is fairly new, however, is for the press to use language about the importance of the http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6377 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm Media Shield Law Moves Forward in Senate, EPIC The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee with a vote of 14-5 and has been sent to the full Senate for a vote. The bill will make it more difficult to compel journalists to disclose information, including the identities of their sources, by requiring the government or other party requesting disclosure http://epic.org/2009/12/media-shield-law-moves-forward.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm FCC Official Blasts Social Media 'Smear Campaign', Internet News Mark Lloyd recounts the online attacks that brought him hate mail and death threats as he looks ahead to the future of media. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/aXNDb1B6QYo/3853271 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm Online Commenter Did Not Waive Right to Anonymity by Agreeing to News Website's Privacy Policy -- Sedersten v. Taylor, Tech & Marketing Law Sedersten v. Taylor, 2009 U.S. Dist LEXIS 114525 (Case No. 09-3031-CV-S-GAF) (W.D. Mo. Dec. 9. 2009). A http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2009/12/online_commente.htm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/anonymity.htm FBI Releases Warning about Scareware, US CERT No description http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#fbi_releases_warning_about_scareware More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/vulnerable.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. Announce only list information available at www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo AUP :: www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm#aup Cybertelecom is Off-the-Record. Otherwise play nicely. Cybertelecom Link to us! www.cybertelecom.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rcannon100 at yahoo.com Thu Dec 17 09:14:30 2009 From: rcannon100 at yahoo.com (Robert Cannon) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:14:30 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Cybertel-Ann] 12.17 :: Missing from the Natl BB Plan :: Disappointed :: Abandon Hope :: McWifi :: All BB, All the Time :: NetCetera :: Top Trending Wastes of Time :: Message-ID: <418505.3985.qm@web37906.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ============================================ CyberTelecom News Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ National Broadband Plan: Competition Policy Is Key, Free Press Free Press today released Making the National Broadband Plan Work for America, a public interest guide that lays out the central questions that must be answered by the Federal Communications Commission in its efforts to build a National Broadband Plan for America. http://www.freepress.net/node/75407 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadand/plan.htm Free Press: Solutions to the 'Competition Crisis' Missing from the National Broadband Plan, Free Press Today at its December open meeting, the Federal Communications Commission heard an update on the progress of the National Broadband Plan. Promoting competition was a promised theme of the plan. http://www.freepress.net/node/75428 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Public Knowledge Disappointed with FCC Broadband Plan, PK ?We are disappointed at what the FCC staff said were the most critical elements of the Commission?s broadband plan. At a time when U.S. standing in the world is rapidly falling in broadband penetration and adoption, and when bold plans are called for, the Commission appears to be satisfied with taking incremental steps. http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/uG8Z4uKyafs/2821 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm FCC Takes on Cable But Not Carriers With National Broadband Plan, Gigaom The Federal Communications Commission today heard about the types of policies that need to be implemented in order to make nationwide broadband a reality as part of an update to the National Broadband Plan that?s due Feb. 17. Amid rather esoteric policies regarding pole placement and installing broadband with road construction, there were a few controversial proposals, but little dealing with the overall lack of competition in the U.S. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/BsUJ6QVAgyg/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm FCC digs into broadband controversies, CNET A task force that is shaping a national plan to provide ubiquitous high-speed Internet access tackles the USF, wireless spectrum, and cable set-top boxes. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-10416765-266.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-PoliticsandLaw More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Support the FCC Broadband Plan Policy Framework - I was Wrong to Abandon Hope, Cook The FCC National Broadband Plan Policy Framework was issued today. Grab it read it and send ex parte comments. http://gordoncook.net/wp/?p=329 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm McDonald's to offer free, unlimited Wi-Fi, CW McDonald's restaurants may soon be the easiest spot to find free Wi-Fi and browse the Web for as long as you like. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142371/McDonald_s_to_offer_free_unlimited_Wi_Fi?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wifi.htm FCC Alums in Germany Write About Novel Spectrum Policy Alternatives, Spectrum Talks Two of my former FCC colleagues, Ken Carter and Scott Marcus (not a relative) have worked in WIK [Wissenschaftliches Institut f?r Kommunikationsdienste /Scientific Institute for Communication Services], "Germany?s leading research and advisory institute for communication service", for several years. They have collaborated with two others on the new report pictured at left entitled "Next Generation Spectrum Regulation for Europe: Price-Guided Radio Policy". http://spectrumtalk.blogspot.com/2009/12/fcc-alums-in-germany-write-about-novel.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm Forward Progress at the FCC, PFF Just when it was starting to look like it was "All Broadband, All the Time" at the Federal Communications Commission, a ray of light burst through: an FCC investigation begun into fraudulent billings of the Telecommunications Relay Fund has resulted in indictments brought by the U.S. Department of Justice. Broadcasting & Cable reports that DOJ has charged twenty-six people for allegedly bilking the fund out of $60 million in bogus calls. http://blog.pff.org/archives/2009/11/forward_progress_at_the_fcc.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pff%2Fesbin+%28Barbara+Esbin+%3E%3E+The+Progress+%26+Freedom+Foundation+Blog%29&utm_content=FeedBurner More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm New Data on Sexting from Pew Internet, GenNetWise Amanda Lenhart from Pew Internet & American Life Project just published a new report on teen sexting, which the report describes as sending ?sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images or videos of themselves to someone else via text messaging.? Ms. Lenhart is one of the nation?s leading researchers on youth online behavior. The report differs in some ways http://www.getnetwise.org/blog/2009/12/15/new-data-on-sexting-from-pew-internet/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Parents Need to Teach Children that Cyber-Bullying is Wrong, iKeepSafe Rather than properly disciplining their child for the act of cyber-bullying, some parents are taking the low road and suing schools for punishing their child's act of hate. http://ikeepsafe.blogspot.com/2009/12/parents-need-to-teach-children-that.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm More public Facebook => more careful selves (I hope), Net Family News Don?t miss Julia Anguin's Wall Street Journal blog post about how "friending" has gone from knowing what the kid three rows back thinks about the latest celeb news to a popularity contest to, now with Twitter, a "talent show" among "followers" (who are much less complicated than "friends") ? or how "to prove your intellectual prowess in 140 characters or less. But where http://www.netfamilynews.org/2009/12/more-public-facebook-more-careful.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Teens and Sexting, Pew Internet How and why minor teens are sending sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images via text messaging. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/Teens-and-Sexting.aspx More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Google officially and publicly slams Australia's mandator, Ars Technica Google officially and publicly slams Australia's mandatory Internet censorship, "the first of its kind amongst western democracies." http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/google-officially-and-publicly-slams.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/filters.htm FCC Hires Law Professor Who Believes Broadcast Indecency Laws Are Unconstitutional, Techdirt There are many people out there who are greatly troubled by the way the FCC "enforces" efforts against broadcast indecency -- with some even questioning whether or not it's even constitutional for the FCC to act as a public arbiter of indecency. It looks like the FCC has just hired one such person, in the form of Duke telco law professor Stuart Benjamin. http://techdirt.com/articles/20091211/1600077319.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm Cybersafety Booklet for Parents and Kids Now Available, FTC FTC, Department of Education, Federal Communications Commission Officials Present Free Booklet at D.C. Middle School http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/12/netcetera.shtm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/literacy.htm CTIA Wants Exemption From Net Neutrality, Internet News Head of the wireless trade group thinks it plays by different sets of rules which require different kinds of regulation. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/ssRTkjbTWcI/3853626 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralnprm.htm CTIA Debated Public Interest Group on Net Neutrality, CTIA After the net neutrality debate with Public Knowledge this morning at the National Press Club, we issued the following release. CTIA's Chris Guttman-McCabe participated in the debate and highlighted the industry?s concerns of the rules and their unintended consequences and why wireless networks are different. http://www.ctia.org/blog/index.cfm/2009/12/15/CTIA-Debated-Public-Interest-Group-on-Net-Neutrality More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralnprm.htm Public Knowledge Statement on AT&T Net Neutrality Letter, PK Earlier today, AT&T filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) offering the company?s views on Net Neutrality. http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/ZLysxiP7-os/2819 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralnprm.htm MAP President to FCC: Net Neutrality Rules Would Protect the Public's First Amendment Rights, MAP Andrew Jay Schwartzman, President and CEO of Media Access Project, testified at a Federal Communications Commission workshop this afternoon in support of network neutrality. At the workshop, entitled ?Speech, Democracy and the Open Internet,? Schwartzman emphasized that the Commission should implement policies to promote http://www.mediaaccess.orghttp//www.mediaaccess.org/press-room/map-president-to-fcc-net-neutrality-rules-would-protect-the-publics-first-amendment-rights More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralnprm.htm FCC Enters Parallel Universe on First Amendment & Net Neutrality Issues, PFF Today I visited the Federal Communications Commission meeting room to attend a workshop on "Speech, Democratic Engagement, and the Open Internet." Honestly, I think I was stuck in the Twilight Zone, because from what the speakers at this ridiculously one-sided panel had to say: (1) the First Amendment means something entirely different than what the http://blog.pff.org/archives/2009/12/fcc_enters_parallel_universe_on_first_amendment_ne.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralnprm.htm Top Twitter Trends of 2009, TWITTER My name is Abdur and I'm part of the Research team here at Twitter. As Chief Scientist, it's my job to interpret data so we can understand and appreciate how Twitter is constantly evolving. Since it's the end of the year, we thought it would be interesting to review the topics and issues that captured global attention over the year. In 2009, Twitter?s Trending Topics http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/top-twitter-trends-of-2009.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/ What You Watched and Searched for on YouTube in 2009, Youtube This year has been the biggest yet for online video, and for the first time we're sharing our official Most Watched lists and some of the fastest-rising search terms on YouTube. Some moments were big (President Obama's inauguration), some small (a Minnesota wedding party erupts into dance), some expected ("New Moon"), some surprising (Susan Boyle) ? but all http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/gWP3zFxirVo/what-you-watched-and-searched-for-on.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/statapps.htm Georgia Gets Ready for IPv6 With Help From Cisco, CISCO Cisco and the Georgian Research and Educational Networking Association (GRENA) today announced the opening of the first laboratory for training and research in Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in the Caucasus region. Cisco donated the lab's networking and communications equipment. Located in the Georgian capital Tbilisi and ... http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2009/prod_121609b.html?CMP=AF17154&vs_f=News at Cisco:+Press+Releases+and+Features&vs_p=News at Cisco:+Press+Releases+and+Features&vs_k=1 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm Will 2010 be the year of IPv6?, CW Despite significant growth in 2009, IPv6 still represents less than 1% of all Internet traffic. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142404/Will_2010_be_the_year_of_IPv6_?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/ipv6.htm The White House Open Government Dashboard: Seeking Your Input, OSTP On Tuesday, the Open Government Initiative published the new Open Government Directive. The Directive is not the first ? only the latest ? in a long timeline of open government milestones during the course of the last year. Since the President signed the executive memorandum on Transparency and Open Government as his first executive action, [...] http://blog.ostp.gov/2009/12/16/the-white-house-open-government-dashboard-seeking-your-input/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/ Public Knowledge Disappointed With White House 'Piracy' Meeting, PK ?We were extremely disappointed to learn of the White House meeting to be held later today on the issue of intellectual property and ?piracy.? It is unclear why three cabinet officers, several subcabinet officers, the directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Secret Service are needed to tend to the worries of the big media companies, particularly the http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/HHrB8RqroiI/2817 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm No! to newspaper bailouts, OJR There will always be a need for the reporting of current events, but because of the Internet, journalism is undergoing revolutionary change in terms of how news is distributed and accessed. Conventional newspapers are thus in crisis, and there are some who propose a Federal bailout. No way! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ojr-full/~3/mQ5PioBVbv8/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ NIST Seeks Comments on Cryptography Standards Publication, NIST NIST has released for public comment a new revision of one of its key computer security documents, a set of information processing standards governing the use of cryptographic modules by civilian federal agencies and government contractors. http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb2009_1215.htm#fips More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/crypto.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! To [un]subscribe to Cybertelecom-l send mail to LISTSERV at LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command [un]SUBSCRIBE CYBERTELECOM-L. 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Federal Internet Law and Policy ============================================ ?In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer? - Camus Broadband's Big Day: Stim Fund Handouts, FCC's National Plan, Ecommerce Times Those following the progress of U.S. broadband initiatives were going to need a bandwidth boost of their own Thursday; there was a lot of new data to digest. Dual announcements captured the attention of industry officials and consumer advocates: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/68930.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/ NTIA Comments on National Broadband Plan (PDF 709KB), NTIA NTIA filed a letter addressing the public safety, homeland security and cybersecurity elements of the National Broadband Plan being drafted by the FCC. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/filings/2009/National%20Broadband%20Plan%20Letter.pdf More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm White House Announces Funding of Broadband 'Middle Mile', Knight Commission Vice President Joe Biden is set to announce today an initial $182 million investment in the expansion of broadband to rural and underserved communities in 17 states. Earlier in the day, the National Economic Council released a new report (pdf) called "Recovery Act Investments in Broadband: Leveraging Federal Dollars to Create Jobs and Connect America" that http://www.knightcomm.org/white-house-announces-funding-broadband-middle-mile More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/stimulus.htm AT&T's 3G Network Corner Cutting, In Graphic Form - Here's the money made vs. spent. Here's your inability to make a call in NYC., dslreports As part of the story AT&T surely wishes would just dry up and go away already, Newsweek journalist Dan Lyons this week continued attacking AT&T with high-test snark. Specifically, Lyons argues that while AT&T's revenues have been absolutely exploding, their network investment has been dropping -- for years. In short, he says AT&T's making a killing, not investing as much of that money back into the network as they should be, then complaining when users try (and fail) to use the network as http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATTs-3G-Network-Corner-Cutting-In-Graphic-Form-106049 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/w3g.htm School cyberbully wins free-speech case, Net Family News This week the Los Angeles Times told the story of an 8th grader who walked into her school counselor's office in tears, saying she just couldn't go to class. Another girl had posted a humiliating video about her in a video site and the targeted girl was sure half the school's 8th-grade class had seen it. After much discussion among school, district, and district lawyers, the http://www.netfamilynews.org/2009/12/school-cyberbully-wins-free-speech-case.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Pew Study Says Majority of Teens Are Not Sexting, iKeepSafe Recent articles in the Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle reported that the vast majority of teens are not engaging in sexting. Both articles cited a study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. This study found, for example, that 15 percent of adolescents ages 12 to 17 have received sexually suggestive photos or videos on their cell phones. http://ikeepsafe.blogspot.com/2009/12/pew-study-says-majority-of-teens-are.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm iKeepSafe and Google Hold First Digital Media Literacy Tour Event, iKeepSafe iKeepSafe, Optimist International and Google made the first stop on the Digital Media Literacy Tour at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, Va., today. The event featured three separate training sessions for students (8 a.m., 9 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.), and utilized the new curriculum developed as part of this initiative by security expert Dr. Davina Pruitt-Mentle, Educational Technology Policy, Research and Outreach. http://ikeepsafe.blogspot.com/2009/12/ikeepsafe-and-google-hold-first-digital.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/literacy.htm NPRM Raises Questions with No Signs of Answers, Nextgenweb In my recent post on Digital Society, I posit that the FCC?s proposed NPRM on Internet regulation raises more questions than it does answers. This might be considered progress for an academic research project, but not for public policy. Proponents on both sides of the Net Neutrality debate suspect that the FCC is seriously confused about its own proposed http://www.nextgenweb.org/news-and-blog-clips/nprm-raises-questions-with-no-signs-of-answers More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm Vancouver Olympics Unhappy With 'Cool Sporting Event That Takes Place in British Columbia Between 2009 and 2011 Edition' Slogan, Techdirt We've been covering how the Olympics has been able to get various governments around the world to grant it extra special intellectual property protection on certain words and phrases, with the upcoming Vancouver Olympics being no exception. In that case, you have to be careful of the use of "Vancouver," "Olympics," and even "2010." So, clothing maker Lululemon http://techdirt.com/articles/20091216/0816517384.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/copyright.htm Citizen Media Law Project Publishes New Guide to FTC Disclosure Requirements for Product Endorsements, Berkman Center No description http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5835 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/ EPIC Defends Privacy of Facebook Users: Files Complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, EPIC EPIC has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, urging the FTC to open an investigation into Facebook?s revised privacy settings. The EPIC complaint, signed by nine other privacy and consumer organizations, states that the? "changes violate user expectations, diminish user privacy, and contradict Facebook?s own representations." EPIC cites http://epic.org/2009/12/epic-defends-privacy-of-facebo.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/socialnetworks.htm etc: Facebook's changes to its privacy settings have led a han..., Ars Technica Facebook's changes to its privacy settings have led a handful of privacy groups to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. They accuse Facebook of deceptive trade practices among other things. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/facebooks-changes-to-its-privacy.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/socialnetworks.htm Twitter Hacked By Iranian Cyber Army, Gigaom It seems like Twitter has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army, some sort of a renegade hacker group that claims to be linked to Iran. I have been trying to log in for a while now and have failed to get any kind of access to the Twitter service. The tragedy is that I never thought for a minute that anything was wrong, mostly because we http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/BNx3cmGDGHo/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/ DNS Disruption, TWITTER As we tweeted a bit ago, Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised tonight but have now been fixed. As some noticed, Twitter.com was redirected for a while but API and platform applications were working. We will update with more information and details once we've investigated more fully. http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/dns-disruption.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/ 'Iranian cyber army' hits Twitter, BBC Micro blogging service Twitter has been left red-faced after being hit by cyber-terrorists. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/8420233.stm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/ Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes, Wired It's not just drones' video feeds that can be tapped into -- the U.S. military's primary video-surveillance system is also vulnerable to electronic interception. Militants can see through the eyes of all kinds of combat aircraft. http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/politics/~3/WkjMryu3xWE/ More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/cyberwar.htm White House cyber czar and other security non-events of 2009, CW As the year draws to a close high expectations have become somewhat tempered with the realization that change on the cybersecurity front may be a little slower in coming, especially considering all the other priorities confronting Congress. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142445/White_House_cyber_czar_and_other_security_non_events_of_2009?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/dhs.htm Court Finds that SMS Spam Messages are Subject to the TCPA and Rejects First Amendment Defense -- Abbas v. Selling Source, LLC, Tech Marketing Law Abbas v. Selling Source, LLC, Case no. 09 CV 3413 (N.D. Ill.; Dec. 14, 2009). I didn't... http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2009/12/court_confirms_1.htm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/spam/fcc.htm Philadelphia Buys Wi-Fi Network - What a long strange trip it's been, dslreports Philadelphia's Wi-Fi network has a long and sordid history. It was Earthlink's flagship, $20 million launch in their (failed) attempt to bypass incumbent control of the broadband market by offering Wi-Fi, but it was also the first time the public became aware that companies like Verizon were trying to ban towns and cities from wiring themselves for service, even if http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Philadelphia-Buys-WiFi-Network-106040 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/states/pa.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RSS Feeds : Fed Notices : Blog : Clips : http://www.cybertelecom.org/news.htm Now Extra Delicious! http://del.icio.us/rcannon100/zxc Cytertelecom is now on Twitter & Facebook! 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The National Broadband Plan, PK At the December 16 Commission meeting, the folks working on the National Broadband Plan made a further presentation/sneak preview/trial balloon on what to expect when they publish the plan on February 17 (God willin? and the crick don? rise). While we at Public Knowledge criticized the plan for failing to have the courage of its convictions and the evidence by taking a pass (so far at least) on promoting structural separation, that does not make the plan worthless. http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/zqOhASelEB4/2826 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm Updating the Berkman Center's broadband study for the FCC, Berkman Center On October 14, the FCC posted for public comment the Berkman Center?s draft study Next Generation Connectivity: A review of broadband Internet transitions and policy from around the world. Hundreds of pages of comments were submitted to the FCC, and some were very helpful in identifying useful additional analysis. In mid-January, the Berkman Center will submit the final draft of the report to the FCC. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5843 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/plan.htm 'Teens would ignore texting-while-driving laws', Net Family News With texting up 10-fold over the past three years and as momentum for a nationwide law against texting while driving builds, there are indicators that the driver demographic that texts the most would benefit the least. "Already 19 states and the District of Columbia ban texting by all drivers, while 9 others prohibit it by young drivers," Reuters reports, but "at least one major study has found that, with mobile devices http://www.netfamilynews.org/2009/12/teens-would-ignore-texting-while.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm Website Initially Denied 230 Dismissal But Gets It on Appeal--Shiamili v. Real Estate Group, Tech & Marketing Law Shiamili v. Real Estate Group of New York, Inc., 2009 WL 4842470 (N.Y. App. Div. Dec. 17,... http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2009/12/website_initial.htm More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/samaritan.htm The "Problem of Proportionality" in the Debate over Net Neutrality, PFF Last week I commented on a severely one-sided FCC net neutrality hearing that featured a endless parade of horribles being prophesied by virtually every speaker. The litany of spooky stories became tedious and absurd. Everyone foretold of the impending doom that awaits unless government intervenes to save us from various corporate conspiracies to "silence" our voices. Unsurprisingly, evidence was in short supply. It was pure Chicken Little poppycock. http://blog.pff.org/archives/2009/12/the_problem_of_proportionality_in_the_debate_over.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralnprm.htm Survey: Internet use grows fast among Latinos, Pew Internet Latino adults are increasing their use of the Internet faster than other ethnic groups, according to a new survey from the Pew Hispanic Center and the Pew Internet and American Life Project... http://www.pewinternet.org/Media-Mentions/2009/Survey-Internet-use-grows-fast-among-Latinos.aspx More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/subscribers.htm In Which a Building is Built, and a Domain Name Registered: Cleary Building Corp, V. David A. Dame, Inc., Cybertelecom Today?s case involves the classic alleged scenario of a gripe site which used a Plaintiff?s trademark in Defendant?s web site domain name - and whether this might be a violation of the Anti Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA). Cleary Building Corp, V. David A. Dame, Inc., Civil Action No. 09-cv-01578-CMA-MEH. (DCo Dec. 1, 2009) http://cybertelecom.blogspot.com/2009/12/in-which-building-is-built-and-domain.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/acpa.htm Update on Last Night's DNS Disruption, TWITTER Domain Name System or DNS is an Internet protocol used to translate IP addresses into domain names so instead of typing in a long string of numbers we can enter urls like www.twitter.com into a browser to visit our favorite web sites. Last night, DNS settings for the Twitter web site were hijacked. From 9:46pm to 11pm PST, approximately 80% of Traffic to Twitter.com was redirected to other web sites. We tweeted, blogged, and updated our status page last night. http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/update-on-last-nights-dns-disruption.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/security.htm Leaked 2010 Verizon FiOS Rate Hike Info - Higher prices, huge early termination fee..., dslreports Broadband Reports has obtained documents, accidentally posted by Verizon to a publicly accessible website, that highlight some of Verizon's 2010 FiOS bundle and pricing plans. The information indicates that customers can look forward to price hikes ranging from $10 to $20 depending on your bundle -- starting January 17 of next year. Packages will be revamped slightly in several markets, with Verizon's "TV Essentials" package being replaced, and symmetrical FiOS tiers making an official return. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Leaked-2010-Verizon-FiOS-Rate-Hike-Info-106087 More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/verizon.htm Losers Of Garage Door DMCA Case Try To Use Legaleze To Lock Up Your Garage Door Openers Anyway, DMCA It's been over five years since garage door opener company Chamberlain lost its bizarre DMCA case, which tried to argue that anyone making competing replacement garage door openers was violating the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA. If you believed Chamberlain, then it would mean that the DMCA could effectively be used to block out any competition in replacement parts just by using a bit of encryption. http://techdirt.com/articles/20091217/0152127402.shtml More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm Chicagoans Talk Broadband & Small Business with FCC, Next Gen Web http://www.nextgenweb.org/news-and-blog-clips/chicagoans-talk-broadband-small-business-with-fcc http://www.nextgenweb.org/news-and-blog-clips/chicagoans-talk-broadband-small-business-with-fcc More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/Next Gen Web Schmidt tapped as White House cybersecurity coordinator, CW An administration official told CSOonline.com Monday night that IT security veteran Howard Schmidt will be the new White House cybersecurity coordinator, a position President Obama created seven months ago. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142579/Schmidt_tapped_as_White_House_cybersecurity_coordinator?source=rss_news More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/ EPIC Files Lawsuit for Information about "Digital Strip Search" Devices, EPIC On December 17, 2009, EPIC filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice concerning the use of devices that capture images of individuals stripped naked. The Transportation Security Administration has confirmed the Whole Body Imaging machines are being used in at least one Virginia federal court by the US Marshall Service. http://epic.org/2009/12/epic-files-lawsuit-for-informa.html More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/bigbrother.htm 7-Eleven Hack From Russia Helped Loot ATMs in New York, Wired Albert Gonzalez names his Russian associates as the hackers behind a 2008 multimillion-dollar ATM feeding frenzy. 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