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<nettime> [risks] Risks Digest 22.29 excerpt: ENUM in OZ |
[via <tbyfield@panix.com>. heads up, antipodeans: the ENUM standard presents insanely complicated problems, but it's coming to a phone near you RSN anyway -- very likely in a very malignant form. cheers, t] ----- Forwarded From: RISKS List Owner <risko@csl.sri.com> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:00:31 PDT Subject: [risks] Risks Digest 22.29 To: risks@csl.sri.com <...> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 9:08:44 PDT From: "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann@csl.sri.com> Subject: Phone system could have your number (Mark White via Dave Farber's IP) >From: Mark White <tausyankee@optusnet.com.au> Phone system could have your number Kate Mackenzie, *The Australian*, 7 Oct 2002 A single telephone number doubling as an e-mail address could soon be available in Australia despite fears the technology could become a de facto identification number. Under the ENUM system being analysed by the Australian Communications Authority, one number could track down a person via a home or mobile phone number, or an e-mail or website address. The technology has attracted controversy overseas because of privacy implications of people being identified by a single number. The ACA wants feedback on a discussion paper it has issued, saying privacy is one of its concerns. But ACA numbering manager Neil Whitehead said potential benefits of the system could be enormous. "People would only need to remember one number to contact other people in a variety of devices," he said. Equipment manufacturers and Internet service providers were keen to pursue the technology. Telstra proposed a single-number service in 1997 and offered numbers beginning with 0500 that could redirect to any number. Called Telepath, the service, which cost $7 a month, failed to attract many subscribers. ENUM would have to be deployed across all telecommunications and Internet providers to be effective. IP Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ <...> ------------------------------ Date: 29 Mar 2002 (LAST-MODIFIED) From: RISKS-request@csl.sri.com Subject: Abridged info on RISKS (comp.risks) The RISKS Forum is a MODERATED digest. Its Usenet equivalent is comp.risks. => SUBSCRIPTIONS: PLEASE read RISKS as a newsgroup (comp.risks or equivalent) if possible and convenient for you. Alternatively, via majordomo, send e-mail requests to <risks-request@csl.sri.com> with one-line body subscribe [OR unsubscribe] which requires your ANSWERing confirmation to majordomo@CSL.sri.com . If Majordomo balks when you send your accept, please forward to risks. [If E-mail address differs from FROM: subscribe "other-address <x@y>" ; this requires PGN's intervention -- but hinders spamming subscriptions, etc.] Lower-case only in address may get around a confirmation match glitch. INFO [for unabridged version of RISKS information] There seems to be an occasional glitch in the confirmation process, in which case send mail to RISKS with a suitable SUBJECT and we'll do it manually. .MIL users should contact <risks-request@pica.army.mil> (Dennis Rears). .UK users should contact <Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk>. => The INFO file (submissions, default disclaimers, archive sites, copyright policy, PRIVACY digests, etc.) is also obtainable from http://www.CSL.sri.com/risksinfo.html ftp://www.CSL.sri.com/pub/risks.info The full info file will appear now and then in future issues. *** All contributors are assumed to have read the full info file for guidelines. *** => SUBMISSIONS: to risks@CSL.sri.com with meaningful SUBJECT: line. => ARCHIVES are available: ftp://ftp.sri.com/risks or ftp ftp.sri.com<CR>login anonymous<CR>[YourNetAddress]<CR>cd risks [volume-summary issues are in risks-*.00] [back volumes have their own subdirectories, e.g., "cd 21" for volume 21] http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/VL.IS.html [i.e., VoLume, ISsue]. Lindsay Marshall has also added to the Newcastle catless site a palmtop version of the most recent RISKS issue and a WAP version that works for many but not all telephones: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/w/r http://the.wiretapped.net/security/info/textfiles/risks-digest/ . http://www.planetmirror.com/pub/risks/ ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/risks/ ==> PGN's comprehensive historical Illustrative Risks summary of one liners: http://www.csl.sri.com/illustrative.html for browsing, http://www.csl.sri.com/illustrative.pdf or .ps for printing ------------------------------ End of RISKS-FORUM Digest 22.29 ************************ ----- Backwarded # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net