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Chinese Hackers Play Operator With Global Telcos – BankInfoSecurity.com

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  1. Chinese Hackers Play Operator With Global Telcos  BankInfoSecurity.com
  2. A Likely Chinese Hacker Crew Targeted 10 Phone Carriers to Steal Metadata  WIRED
  3. Global Telecom Carriers Attacked by Suspected Chinese Hackers  The Wall Street Journal
  4. China’s Hackers Accused Of ‘Mass-Scale Espionage’ Attack On Global Cellular Networks  Forbes
  5. Hackers hit telecommunications firms in possible Chinese espionage campaign, researchers say  CNBC
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Try your hand at being an operator at the Roseville Telephone Museum

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An early magneto telephone.

Enlarge / An early 1910-era magneto telephone. (credit: Cyrus Farivar)

ROSEVILLE, Calif.—I don’t know about you, but I marvel that, with a tiny device in my pocket, I can instantly hear the voice of any of my loved ones, any time, essentially for free.

Of course, this wasn’t always the case. I’m old enough (nearly 37!) to remember when the phone would ring from overseas relatives and my parents would remind us to hurry to the phone: IT’S LONG DISTANCE! And yes, my parents used to pick up the phone and disrupt my dial-up Internet escapades.

But our contemporary landscape, replete with theoretically smart handputers, has an amazing past that extends well beyond my lifetime.

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