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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 21:09:37 GMT
From: Bud Couch <kentrox!bud@uunet.uu.net>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Hook Tapping
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In article <telecom11.479.6@eecs.nwu.edu> mnc@css.itd.umich.edu
(Miguel Cruz) writes:

> In article <telecom11.471.10@eecs.nwu.edu> Dan Shapin <CS131B05@ccvax.
> fullerton.edu> writes:

>> How do you place a call with out dialing it using the "Hook tapping"
>> method. Does it work on any phone?

> This works on phones that don't have timed switchhooks. 
	                               ^^^^^ 
Or phones that have mercury switches on the hook-switch. I've seen
this on pay-phones to prevent some rather ingenious fraud schemes that
I won't detail :-).


Bud Couch - ADC/Kentrox   If my employer only knew...   standard BS applies