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From: claris!netcom!onymouse@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John Debert)
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Subject: Re: Phreaks of the Monolithic Era of Telephony
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 From article <12230@accuvax.nwu.edu>, by 0004133373@mcimail.com
(Donald E. Kimberlin):

> Just square the issue for our less sophisticated readers' paranoia,
> rest assured that today, a combination of (digital) technology and
> reduced profit margins makes it far, FAR less likely that such things
> continue.  It's just not so easy to get into a digital timeslot, and
> there aren't enough idle employees hanging around any more to engage
> such games.

What's to keep the folks at the SCC's from eavesdropping? The SCC's
are staffed around the clock and have the power to listen in on all
calls in the Bell network as well as the power to kill dialtone and
battery. (I once received a call from someone who told me to "stop
doing it" and afterward I was without dialtone for an hour or so. I
later found out that someone at the Richmond (CA) SCC had done it but
I never found out why.) The frames may no longer have anyone in them
but there is always someone "in the network".


jd
onymouse@netcom.UUCP


[Moderator's Note: I had a guy in the Chicago-Wabash CO rip me off
once many years ago (1974). He ran my bill up several hundred units
two or three months in a row before I caught on, making calls by going
on my line in the frames. I guess he figured because my number ended
in /00/ (WEbster 9-4600) it was a large company and I would never
notice the difference.   PAT]