Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bu.edu!telecom-request From: undrground!seanp@amix.commodore.com (Sean Petty) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Do Network Interface Devices Make Fraud Easy? Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 91 21:11:05 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: A civilization beneath the Earth, The Underground Empire. 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 146, Message 1 of 8 > In Southern Bell land (our subdivision, anyway), these boxes have > latches on them on which you can place a padlock. The telephone > installer who came to our house strongly recommended making use of > this feature! We put on a combination padlock, like you'd use on a > gym locker, so that if we ever need service we can tell the repair > office the combination to the lock, which they record on the repair > order, and we don't need to be there to provide a key. In Bell of Pennsylvania country, these boxes provide the same padlock feature, but with a helpful twist. The box has two sides. One side, marked "Customer Access" and the other marked "Telco Access ONLY". The customer side has a Phillips head screw holding it closed, and the telco side has a recessed hex nut (to prevent the old crescent wrench trick). However, to keep from having to record any combinations, or worry about not being able to get in, they design the box so that the customer side overlaps the telco side, and when the telco nut is removed the ENTIRE cover opens back. You can take your padlock off, and access your side only, but they can get into the entire thing. Pretty good idea, but then a thief need only have a nut socket to get in rather that bolt cutters and a screwdriver. Sean Petty - Somewhere in Pennsylvania