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From: David Ptasnik <davep@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Telephonic Regression
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Date: 11 Jun 90 17:52:07 GMT
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In article 6647 of comp.dcom.telecom, john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
writes:

>According to some of the stories (including a mention in this forum),
>a number of the utility pay phones have been replaced with old rotary
>dial models (so that pagers can't be activated) and some merged subset
>of these phones have also been disabled from receiving calls.
>is to be denied to a certain subclass of people. Disabling the TT pad
>after the call is dialed (or installing rotary phones) eliminates the
>use of many services, not just pagers. What we are in effect saying to

This would only slow the dealers down momentarily.  There are little
hand held touch tone generators readily avialable at Radio Shack and
better stores.  You just hold the device up to the mouthpiece of the
rotary payphone, and can merrily beep away.  Most of these units have
speed dial capabilities, so dialing might become even easier.  They
start in price at less than $25.00.  Although drug dealers aren't
terribly bright as a group, I imagine that word of mouth would spread
this technology as quickly as the use of pagers spread.  As usual this
kind of move would not hurt the criminal as much as the average
citizen.


davep@cac.washington.edu