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From: jenglish@doctor.tymnet.com (Jim English)
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Subject: False 911 Calls
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Date: 4 Oct 89 03:03:10 GMT
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An interesting thing happened yesterday at work. Two cop cars pull up
to the Data Center, and said that they received quite a few 911
emergency calls that were traced to our address. Well it turns out
that the phone number making the calls is our 2400 baud Public Network
access number. One of the cops queried, "How do I write a summons to a
computer?". It made me think, if thats as far as the 911 people can
trace a call, and say our Network Control cannot trace it back to
whoever originated it, how would 911 put a cap on computer pranksters?


Jim English    MD-IPC   | JENGLISH@F74.TYMNET.COM or jenglish@tardis.tymnet.com
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