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From: zawada@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Paul J Zawada)
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Subject: Re: College Phracking
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Date: 24 Jul 90 04:05:17 GMT
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hoque@huxley.bitstream.com (Tareq Hoque):

> When the campus police arrived, they questioned him on what he was
> doing and seemed confident that he wasn't doing anything malicious.
> They let him proceed with modifications but they did take down his
> name for their notes.  After my friend was done, he gave me the
> lineman's set back.  However, later in the week I got a frantic phone
> call from this friend saying that the CP's have been calling him
> because they want him to turn in the line set to the CP headquarters,
> because he would be breaking the law if he didn't.
 
> Well I told my friend that it was not illegal to own or use this
> equipment for legitimate purposes, but he asked me to talk to the
> police.
 
> I asked the police why they thought I should give them my own personal
> property.
 
Actually, both of my Western Electric butt sets say "BELL SYSTEM
PROPERTY" "NOT FOR RESALE".  I bought them at a hamfest. I realized
that this "warning" as such didn't appear on phones 'till the early
seventies or so, but wasn't this assumed before the labelling?  I mean
back then, the phone company provided the customer with the phone
equipment, so they owned most of it, if not all of it.  Right?  Was it
possible to buy regular Western Electric phones, let alone butt sets,
before the divestiture?  I don't recall ever being able to buy WE
equipment from the Bell System.  It was almost always leased.  Correct
me if I'm wrong.

On the lines of doing your own rewiring ... I believe I heard
somewhere that unauthorized entry into telephone comapany plant was a
federal offense.  This is probably mumbo-jumbo, so if anybody knows -
what really are the laws governing access to telephone company plant?


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