Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: One-Number Card Warning Message-ID: Date: 17 Feb 91 11:47:00 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 24 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 128, Message 6 of 9 Steve Forrette writes: > What makes it worse is that they have a > 10XXX access code, so someone can use a one number card to call to > anywhere from *any* phone they might be using. Note that it isn't > that they just aren't verifying the PIN, as a PIN that's neither the > normal nor the "one number" one will be denied. Not that I would advocate anything improper, but (in the style of Jack Lord's Hawaii Five-O character) suppose, just suppose... You happened to dial a call to a supervising busy test or the Bell Canada newsline and used as a calling card the phone number of the corporate headquarters of ComSystems followed by XXXX (your choice). Do you suppose that the company might be encouraged to close that hole if enough people caused bogus charges to appear the firm's own phone bill? Just wondering. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !