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From: hes@ccvr1.cc.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer)
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Subject: Re: Automatic Call Forwarding
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In article <12488@accuvax.nwu.edu> kaufman@neon.stanford.edu (Marc T.
Kaufman) writes:

>When I took the public tour of the FBI building, the agent giving the
>tour described these devices as "cheese boxes", typically used by
>bookies to keep simple call traces from finding them. ...

  I asked the agent leading my tour what was the origin of the name
"cheese box" and he had no idea.  I wondered if it was from the idiom
"cheese it" meaning "scram" which was used back in those days.  Does
anyone know?


henry schaffer  n c state univ