Oh wow. I think we now have an AT&T that's nicer to sysadmins!
AT&T has long been one of the networks I've dreaded running afoul of when sending email newsletters. For years they've been opaque about their process for getting a false positive IP address de-listed from their block list. "Can neither confirm nor deny" is their MO in how they handle this. It has taken me over a month to get a false positive cleared before.
Most networks have a form you fill out, a list of things you have to fulfill to get automatically restored, and some automatically reinstate you with a delay if you even contact them.
I had some email delivery issues with Gmail and needed to make some DNS changes to make Gmail happy, which instantly landed me in AT&T hell. I was expecting a month of neglect. Instead, they replied back within a few days to let me know that my request will be carried out shortly.
A fmr White House aide who worked closely w/ #Trump returned to the stand to testify about a significant meeting between Trump & #MichaelCohen his personal lawyer that is at the center of Trump’s #criminal trial.
Briefly, as she concluded re-direct, #Mangold sought to show the #jury that #Westerhout was a #Republican loyalist, noting that her current boss, too, is a veteran of the #Trump admin.
Westerhout finished testifying.
The next witness, #DanielDixon, is from #Florida. He will be questioned by the prosecutor #ChrisConroy. Dixon testifies that he is an #ATT employee, & that he is a lead compliance analyst at the company. He’s done that work for 6-7 yrs.
Some of the top wireless carriers in the U.S. have been fined millions of dollars, for illegally sharing customers’ personal data without their consent.
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon have all received government fines following allegations by the FCC that they had “improperly shared users’ geolocation histories to third parties, including to prisons, as part of their commercial programs.” @CNN has more.
Welcome to #America 🇺🇸 where ALL of the major wireless carriers sell customer data to…who are they selling our data to‽ #FCC needs to find out who is buying this data, as it is alarming!
#ATT, #Verizon, #Sprint / #Tmobile (I believe they merged already) are selling our data as if they were #Google. I would not be surprised if various government agencies were buying the info.
Just one more reason not to give your cellular provider your real information. I've had good luck with US Mobile over the past ~6 months with alias information. Good prices and network coverage. Works well on GrapheneOS.
AT&T, $T, says that personal data from around 7.6 million current customers and an additional 65.4 million former customers have been leaked onto the dark web.
[Gifted article, The Washington Post ]: Data from 73 million AT&T accounts leaked to dark web, company says
The data set includes personal information such as Social Security numbers for 7.6 million current customers and 65.4 million former customers, the company said. By Rachel Lerman
AT&T says leaked data set affects about 73 million current, former account holders
Telecom company AT&T said on Saturday that a data set released on the "dark web" about two weeks ago has impacted approximately 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former account holders, based on the company's preliminary analysis of the incident. #att#privacy#security#leak
Breaking: AT&T has reset millions of customer account passcodes after a huge cache of data containing AT&T customer records was dumped online earlier this month, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
A security researcher who analyzed the leaked data told TechCrunch that the encrypted account passcodes are easy to decipher. TechCrunch held the publication of this story until AT&T could reset customer account passcodes.
By the way, I've been part of the aforementioned #ATT breach and I haven't been a customer since 2007. More class action lawsuit settlement $1 check coming I"m sure...