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TELECOM Digest     Wed, 11 Oct 95 22:50:00 CDT    Volume 15 : Issue 432

Inside This Issue:                           Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Civics Lesson (TELECOM Digest Editor)
    Re: Where Do They Get Precise TIME Information? (tms@dukepower.com)
    Re: Where Do They Get Precise TIME Information? (George Fry)
    Re: What to Call the Three Parts of AT&T? (Ed Ellers)
    Update on GLU (R. Jagannathan) 
    Updated GSM List (Jurgen Morhofer)
    Automatic Privacy Cord (roys@sos.net)
    CCITT Standards (100322.2352@compuserve.com)
    AT&T Passageway CTI (Eric Griffith)
    Re: Old Telco Question (Paul J. Zawada)
    Administrivia: Lost Mail Tuesday Overnight/Wednesday (Digest Editor)

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Today students, we shall examine different government agencies and their
purposes. 

FCC - The Federal Communications Commission has the responsibility of
regulating the airwaves and the phone companies.

FAA - The Federal Aviation Administration has something to do with
airplanes and their flying around in the USA.

Let's see ... what about the United States Customs Service?

Well ... they are in charge of manufacturing and distributing child
pornography on the Internet. They have a pretty large operation for
that in south Florida now. Their objective is to entrap whoever they
can by sending it out through email to see who takes the bait. They
also get involved in 'hot chat' looking for people interested in the
garbage they have for sale. 

Now of course if they were to send it out from a site with an address
ending in .gov or .mil or similar, only someone like your Editor, who
fell off the back of the turnip truck yesterday would be inclined to 
exchange any correspondence with them at all. So they had to find some
other Internet service provider willing to give them a few bogus 
accounts 
and ficticious names to use.

Wait a minute, I hear you saying ... what sort of service provider would
deliberatly allow child pornography to be pushed out into the net via
their site?  Well, America OnLine would do it. When Steve Case was
approached by the Customs 'service' asking for a few accounts and screen
names to be used specifically for the purpose of sending out child porn
to unsuspecting netters, he agreed. After all, the FBI was already doing
their thing on AOL, so why not let Customs in on it also? 

By their own admission in recent articles in the mainstream press, the
United States Customs Service took over a child pornography operation 
in Florida about two years ago, and has continued to operate it. What
they did not go into detail about however was how they go about finding
people they can set up. And that is what it amounts to; it is a numbers
game to get as many arrests and convictions as possible. Someone has
decided there are zillions and thousands of pedophiles on the net and
they have to all be rounded up -- no matter who gets hurt in the 
process.

Customs uses screen names such as 'Confused Teen' to hang around on line
in places like the gay chat rooms on AOL, along with Teen Chat and
Romance Connection, two other popular chat areas on that system. They
do it with the full knowledge and blessings of AOL management. Confused
Teen and his 'younger brother' start up conversations with suspected
pedophiles -- users whose names have been supplied to them by AOL --
to see what they can get cooking ... and a couple of 'teenage girls'
(yeah ... you bet!) work the heterosexual side of the house making
the same kind of agressive approaches. 

Soon enough, the conversations get steamy and the guys respond like, 
well, like guys will respond. Pretty soon the .gif files start coming, 
etc. Then comes a little more hardcore stuff and maybe you would like
to order more, eh?  It can be sent direct to your computer from ours,
here in south Florida at the offices of the US Customs Service, d/b/a
Confused Teen. Of course they don't tell you *that*. And if you don't
want to order it today, we will keep sending you a little every few
days until you do decide to order some. 

Some AOL users were just junking it on arrival. Deleting the mail and
ignoring it. Now and then one might send it to TOSAdvisor with a com-
plaint, but not often; you know how it goes. When Customs tried to
arrest a couple people they had *entrapped* into purchasing their stuff,
the people quite correctly managed to get it deleted from the computer
before the federal officers got there which made it hard for the Customs
people to prove the 'pedophiles' were in possession of it.

To fix that little problem, AOL agreed to change the email software so
that users CANNOT delete mail they receive. All email received there
is now stored *in your account, in your storage space* until AOL gets
good and ready to delete it. If the user attempts to delete unwanted
mail, he gets back a system response saying 'We have removed the delete
function from mail since you don't need it any longer. We will delete
it in a few days. In the meantime, we will just save it over here in
another folder for you.'  ... how terribly thoughtful and gracious of
them, don't you think?  It sure makes it a lot easier to be certain 
that someone will be 'in possession' of something nasty when the law
comes a-calling at their door. 

              -------------------------------

That's what happened to a Chicago Police officer here recently. A very
high-ranking officer, a watch commander in his district ('watch 
commander'
here is the title for the supervising officer of an entire police
district for certain hours of the day) wound up with child pornography
in his email at AOL. By coincidence -- the merest coincidence of course -
-
federal agents were at his house *the day it arrived* with a search 
warrant. How is that for slick timing?   <grin> ...  

The media in Chicago has withheld his name from publication to protect
his privacy in this early stage of the investigation. He has been
temporarily assigned a job with no public contact pending a complete
investigation. He maintains his complete innocence, and we shall see,
I guess, what we shall see as things move along. 

               --------------------------------

And I bet all this time you thought the pedophile stink over at AOL
consisted of users complaining that other users were bothering them ... 
or kidnapping their children. Its understandable you feel that way,
since that's what AOL would like to have you believe. And yes, there
is a grain of truth in that I suppose, but the reality is some of the
tax dollars you pay are being used to pay the salaries of some 
slimeballs
whose job is to sit at a keyboard and try to entrap you into accepting
child porn so they can come out and arrest you for being in possession
of it the next day.

One has to wonder if Steve Case really likes having that sort of thing
go on over his network.  Cynics might say that Case has found that 
federal
judges and federal agents are really good at enforcing the TOS which 
his Guides are rapidly losing control over ... but others suggest that 
maybe 
the real reason he tolerates the spying on and entrapment of users is
because he has no choice in the matter. Maybe the feds got something
on him and got him to flip also, eh?  Maybe his arm (or something else) 
is
getting twisted to force his cooperation.

It is getting harder and harder these days to sing 'America the 
Beautiful'
and really mean it. Ugly things are all around us and show no signs of
going away anytime soon.  

                      -------------------

In other news about the recent AOL busts, the two guys here in Chicago
who were arrested *and charged* -- out of what was it, over a hundred
people hassled? -- have already had their day in court. Yep, that quick. 
Mr. Zucker had his pre-trial hearing on October 5 and he pleaded guilty.  
Mr. Zemke's attorney said to my correspondent that "there won't be any
trial", so I guess we can figure that one out also.


PAT

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In <telecom15.425.13@eecs.nwu.edu>, shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields) 
writes:

> You might be interested in two WWW pages:

> <URL:http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/> is the USNO Directorate of Time, and
> tells you lots about official US time and how the USNO provides it to
> the public.

> <URL:http://www.ucla.edu/campus/computing/time/> points to software 
for
> time synchornization for Mac, Unix, and Windows, thought you probably
> shouldn't use UCLA's servers if you're off-campus.

There's also an OS/2 utility called 'NISTIME' (a UNIX port) that sets 
your
PS'c clock to the NIST time.  It's a free utility that can be found at 
many
OS/2 sites.  I got my copy from Hobbes.

This is a neat utility.  When you start the program, it connects to
the NIST server and compares your PC's clock with the standard.  If
your PC's clock needs adjusting, it will ask you if you want to
update your PC.  I usually start the utility like this: echo y |
nistime.  This will update my PC's clock without asking me.


Tom
(on time)

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In article <telecom15.430.7@eecs.nwu.edu> dale@cybercom.net (Dale 
Farmer) 
writes:

> Clarence Dold (dold@rahul.net) wrote:

>> Jeffrey Yee (jyee@unixg.ubc.ca) wrote:

>>> I have a question. Where does telco obtain their time signal from to
>>> synchronize their clocks and equipment. I was in a CO one time when

A quite accurate source of time signal (within a microsecond or so) is
available from the Navstar Global Positioning Satellite system.  I
understand that many telcos use this source of time signal.

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John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com> writes:
 
> The obvious names, of course, are Western Electric and NCR.  Can we
> come up with anything better?
  
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I don't think there is a better choice 
> than 'Western Electric'. Sorry John, you won't get any better than 
that.
 
I'm tempted to suggest "Western Telecom" or just "WEC," given that
Western's two offshoots -- Northern Electric and Nippon Electric --
are, of course, now called Northern Telecom and NEC.  (Actually,
Western was often referred to as "WECo" within the Bell System.)
 
As for NCR, that hasn't been called NCR for a while; they call it AT&T
Global Information Solutions, and they may just call it GIS after the
AT&T name is dropped.

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One of the problems in distributing GLU (and its Lucid) has been the
license agreement that users had to execute, a tedious process at
best.  Users will soon (end of this month) be able to download GLU
binaries for their favourite (Unix) machines by pointing and clicking
over the Web.  The license agreement will essentially be an
electronic shrink-wrap.

The latest version of GLU will support:

* PVM as well as TCP/IP protocols for parallel GLU execution
* single-master/multiple-worker as well as multi-master/multi-worker
  program architectures for GLU execution
* the OUP book syntax of Lucid


More soon,

R. Jagannathan    phone: +1-415-859-2717
SRI International   fax:   +1-415-859-2844
Computer Science Laboratory  email: jaggan@csl.sri.com
333 Ravenswood Avenue   www: http://www.csl.sri.com/~jagan
Menlo Park, California 94025, U.S.A

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For the latest edition of this list look at my Web-Site:
http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/gsm/gsm-list.html
kindly supplied by Jutta Degener.

(Changes in the list marked by "*")

Date 1995-10-12.

Country      Operator name          Network code   Tel to customer 
service
 ------      -------------          ------------   ----------------------
-
Andorra      STA-Mobiland           213 03
Argentina
Australia    Optus                  505 02         Int + 61 2 978 5678
             Telecom/Telstra        505 01         Int + 61 18 01 8287
             Vodafone               505 03         Int + 61 2 415 7236
Austria    * PTV Austria            232 01         Int + 43 222 79744
Bahrain      Batelco
Belgium      Belgacom               206 01         Int + 32 2205 4000
Brunei      
Cameroon
China
Croatia     
Cyprus       CYTA                   280 01
Denmark      Sonofon                238 02         Int + 45 80 20 21 00
             Tele Danmark Mobil     238 01         Int + 45 80 20 20 20
Egypt       
Estonia      EMT                    248 01         Int + 372 639 7130
                                                   Int + 372 524 7000
             Radiolinja Estonia     248 02         Int + 372 639 9966
Fiji        
Finland      Radiolinja Finland     244 05         Int + 358 800 95050
             Telecom                244 91         Int + 358 800 7000
France       France Telecom         208 01         Int + 33 1 44 62 14 
81
             SFR                    208 10         Int + 33 1 44 16 20 
16
Germany      D1, DeTeMobil          262 01         Int + 49 511 288 0171
             D2, Mannesmann         262 02         Int + 49 172 1212
Gibraltar    GibTel                 266 01
G Britain    Cellnet                234 10         Int + 44 860 321321
             Vodafone               234 15         Int + 44 836 1100
             Jersey Telecom         234 50         Int + 44 1534 88 28 
82
             Guernsey Telecom
           * Manx Telecom
Greece       Panafon                202 05         Int + 30 944 00 122
             STET                   202 10         Int + 30 93 333 333
Hong Kong    HK HTCLGSM             454 04
             SmarTone               454 06         Int + 852 2880 2688
             Telecom CSL            454 00         Int + 852 2803 8450
Hungary      Pannon GSM             216 01         Int + 36 1 270 4120
             Westel 900             216 30         Int + 36 30 303 100
Iceland      Post & Simi            274 01         Int + 354 96 330
India        PT SATELINDO
Indonesia    TELKOMSEL              510 10
Iran         T.C.I.
Ireland      Eircell                272 01         Int + 353 42 31999
Israel     * Cellcom Israel Ltd                    Int + 972 2 795944
Italy        Omnitel                222 10         Int + 39 2 41431
             SIP                    222 01         Int + 39 6615 20309
Japan


                                                         

Kuwait       MTC                    419 02         Int + 965 484 2000
Laos        
Latvia       LMT                    247 01         Int + 371 2256 7764
                                                   Int + 371 2256 9183
                                                   Int + 371 2934 0000
Lebanon      Libancell
Liechtenstein                       228 01
Lithuania    Mobilios Telekom
Luxembourg   Telekom                270 01         Int + 352 4088 7088
Macao
Malaysia     Celcom                 502 19
             Binariang              502 12
Malta        Advanced
Marocco      O.N.P.T.               604 01 
Monaco       France Telecom         208 01
             SFR                    208 10
Namibia      MTC                    649 01         Int + 264 81 121212
Netherlands* PTT Netherlands        204 08         Int + 31 350 688 699
           * Libertel               204 04         Int + 31 6 0500
New Zealand  Bell South             530 01         Int + 64 9 357 5100
Nigeria
Norway       NetCom                 242 02         Int + 47 92 00 01 68
             TeleNor Mobil          242 01         Int + 47 22 03 03 01
Oman         
Pakistan    
Phillipines 
Portugal     Telecel                268 01         Int + 351 931 1212
             TMN                    268 06         Int + 351 1 793 91 78
Qatar        Qatarnet               427 01
Rumania     
Russia       Mobile Tele... Moscow  250 01         Int + 7 095 915-7734
             NW GSM, St. Petersburg
SaudiArabia 
Singapore    Singapore Telecom      525 01
Slovenia    
South Africa MTN                    655 10         Int + 27 11 445 6000
             Vodacom                655 01         Int + 27 82 111
Sri Lanka    MTN Networks Pvt Ltd
Spain        Airtel
             Telefonica Spain       214 07
Sweden       Comviq                 240 07         Int + 46 586 686 10
             Europolitan            240 08         Int + 46 708 22 22 22
             Telia                  240 01         Int + 46 771 91 03 50
Switzerland  PTT Switzerland        228 01         Int + 41 46 05 64 64
Syria        SYR-01                 223 01
             SYR MOBILE SYR         263 09
Taiwan      
Tanzania    
Thailand     TH AIS GSM             520 01         Int + 66 2 299 6440
Turkey       Telsim                 286 02
             Turkcell               286 01         Int + 90 800 211 0211
UAE          UAE ETISALAT-G1        424 01
             UAE ETISALAT-G2        424 02
Uganda
Vietnam
Zimbabwe   *


Jurgen Morhofer         jurgen@flashnet.it
Tel:+39-6-780-8093      Fax:+39-6-780-8777

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Has any one had any luck with the Viking Automatic Privacy Cord?  It
supposedly replaces the standard modular line cord connecting the
phone, fax, or modem and prevents interruption of a telephone conver-
sation or data transmission already in progress.

I'm considering recommending it for a client who wants to use it in an
office situation with a telephone and four modems sharing the same
line ...


Thanks,

Sheri

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Does anyone know of FTP sites where the CCITT Spec's can be obtained?

Please mail here to the Digest, and I would be most obliged if you
would respond also to ambler_rj@scisys.co.uk.

Thanks in advance.

------------------------------



Has anyone had any experience in using AT&Ts Passageway CTI boxes for
interfacing G3I phonesets to computer RS 232 ports? I just bought ten
of these units and although the device is impressive, the included
software "Fastcall" is really not. Has anyone been able to access the
unit outside of AT&T's own software?

My application is to do database lookups based on ANI information
passed to the phoneset, as well as some outbound calling for a
customer service application running under Lotus Notes.

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TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to Stan Schwartz 
<stan@vnet.net>:

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: It was probably an access point for
> Western Union Telegraph Company cables. They were never in the local
> telco business. Did they have a large office in Charlotte at one
> time or another?  I do know that if you go over on LaSalle Street
> in in the south end of downtown Chicago I used to see a few of those
> mainly in the vicinity of WUTCO's large office building and wire
> center.  PAT]

Most of those WU manholes are still there, although some of them may
now say ATS.  Access Transmission Services bought a significant amount
of WU's conduit plant and pulled fiber through it.  ATS was subsquently 
aquired by MCI and is now a wholey-owned subsidiary of MCI-Metro. MCI-
Metro 
is the arm of MCI that is planning on selling local telephone service
in the major metropolitan areas.  MCI-Transmission also contracts to
ATS to plow in relatively short fiber routes (> 100 miles or so).

So while WU may never had been in the local telco business, it looks
like MCI will use their conduit to provide said service ...


Paul J. Zawada          Sr. Network Engineeer
zawada@ncsa.uiuc.edu    National Center for Supercomputing  Applications
+1 217 244 4728         http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/People/zawada

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SubjectL Administrivia: Lost Mail Tuesday Overnight/Wednesday


In case you missed the message in the last issue, the incoming mail
here for Wednesday got trashed in processing. This would involve the
mail which arrived between about 9:00 PM Tuesday night and late after-
noon on Wednesday. If you sent me mail during that period of time it
mostly was lost without being read *even if you did get an autoreply
saying I got it.*  Only EDITORIAL mail was involved. It is safe to
say if you wrote me anytime Wednesday morning or afternoon you should
send it again.


PAT

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