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Remembering the Titanic disaster was made worse by bad communications - As the world remembers the  Titanic disaster's 100years ago today I would like to take this blog entry to remind people that the disaster was made worse by bad communications technology, flooded bandwidth, and new protocols. As Bill Kovarik writes in his article  Radio and the Titanic Problems with the radio played a major role ... - 2012/04/16

Term Tuesdays - Employee Fraud - Employee Fraud - when an employee knowingly steals from the company. Example provided by a former coworker Here is a story from the 1980's.  A carrier was paying sales guys up front for sales and one day an installer called me in Houston and was concerned about a new installation.  The location was an empty field and in the middle of the... - 2012/04/03

Term Tuesday - a version of 'advance-fee' fraud - This example was provided by Mitchell Hellman ,  a former coworker Background AT&T offers several free services for people with hearing related disabilities, details are available at  http://relayservices.att.com/ , this service is funded by the FCC. IM Relay is a solution for individuals who are Deaf, hard-of-hearing, or have sp... - 2012/04/01

How to Configure Humbug's New Call Blocking Asterisk Collector - New Blog Post on the Humbug site explains How to Configure Humbug's New Call Blocking Asterisk Collector http://www.humbuglabs.org/blog/2012/03/20/how-to-configure-the-new-call-blocking-asterisk-collector/ - 2012/03/20

History of Phone Crime - first Denial of Service (DoS) incident - Continuing the retelling of cases of telecom fraud and crime. To review, topics I have covered were 1876 - First case of telecom related fraud  - seems that Bell did not invent the phone, but that the man who did could not afford to patent it. 1889 - First denial of service (DoS) and crime _ see below. 1903-   The first telecom ... - 2012/03/14

Term Tuesdays - Resource Theft: An Inside Job - Today's Term Tuesday is actually a Guest Blog Post by Randy Resnick from the VUC on the Humbug Telecom Blog. Please go take a look at  http://www.humbuglabs.org/blog/2012/03/07/resource-theft-an-inside-job/ - 2012/03/06