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From: jimmy@icjapan.uucp (Jim Gottlieb)
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Subject: Re: Hacker Caught by Caller-ID?
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Date: 29 Oct 89 01:45:00 GMT
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In article <telecom-v09i0472m03@vector.dallas.tx.us> "J. Philip Miller"
<phil@wubios.wustl.edu> writes:

>Does this imply that there are modems which will record Caller-ID, or does
>anyone know what technology was used here?

If a company is experiencing hackers, they can request the telephone
company to track all incoming calls to their modem lines (just like
other annoyance calls).  I suspect that this is how the hackers were
found, rather than through some Caller-ID/Modem device.

Jim Gottlieb 					Info Connections, Tokyo, Japan
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