Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!egvideo!timk
From: timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Pay-phone hacking nostalgia
Summary: Free international calling...
Message-ID: <2038@egvideo.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 89 04:00:00 GMT
References: <7200036@silver>
Reply-To: timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn)
Organization: A Box in the Basement, Kitchener, ON
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In article <7200036@silver> commgrp@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes:

....details over various phone-phreaking exploits and measures deleted...

>{inuxc,rutgers,uunet!uiucdcs,pur-ee}!iuvax!silver!commgrp

Then there's the recent news story - apparently a pay phone at a New York 
airport wouldn't charge you for long distance calls out of the country
(Seems there was an error in the charging software or something.) A good
number of people were making using of this "free" facility to call their 
parents, relatives, etc. back home and talk - often for hours at a time.
It was only discovered when someone was assaulted and on the way to the 
hospital when the police asked him what he was doing there at that time
of the night (around 1 am) that it was found out.

Apparently this had been going on for a number of months!

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