Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dino!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!gargoyle!ddsw1!benfeen From: benfeen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Phone Harassment Message-ID: <1990Mar17.145353.2911@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: 17 Mar 90 14:53:53 GMT References: <21849@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <13746@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <90071.220057SAB121@psuvm.psu.edu> <1185@gtx.com> <1990Mar16.001210.27602@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <5533@buengc.BU.EDU> Reply-To: benfeen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) Distribution: na Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Mundelein, IL Lines: 24 In article <5533@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes: >In article <1990Mar16.001210.27602@ddsw1.MCS.COM> benfeen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) writes: >>I saw an interesting method of getting back at phone harrassers - It >>involves a car battery, a large capacitor, and some wiring thru your phone. >>I'm not gonna go into it, but if you go through a certain sequence, you can >>send a surge through Ma Bell's wires, straight into the offender's >>handset.......... > >Ben, you have a lot to learn about Fiber Optics. > Yes, I know... This was an old old old trick - Before the ESS and fiber optics. Besides, it was actually for modems - They often aren't surge protected, and it wouldn't take much of a jolt. P.S. Don't try this - With the new gadgets, etc. it wouldn't work, you'd be damaging your own phones, and on top of that, it's undoubtedly illegal. -- |Opus and Frodo live! | "Sometimes, when your cat just died and you've cut off your favorite appendage(s) with a power saw and there's epoxy in the Visine and you brush your teeth with Clearasil it helps to say 'What the f*ck'" | This signature consists of non-blanks separated by blanks.