Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!cbosgd!ucbvax!telecom From: telecom@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.telecom Subject: TELECOM Digest V4 #111 Message-ID: <3022@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 16:58:22 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.3022 Posted: Fri Nov 2 16:58:22 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Nov-84 07:48:30 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 60 From: Jon Solomon (the Moderator) TELECOM Digest Fri, 2 Nov 84 15:12:13 EST Volume 4 : Issue 111 Today's Topics: Found on a wall... DNR's ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 31 Oct 84 01:30:50 EST From: *Hobbit* Subject: Found on a wall... To: telecom@RUTGERS.ARPA In my travels through the building's fern closets recently, while mapping how they wired this place, I found the following scribbled on the wall: 800-352-4732 0480 + phone no. Naturally, I tried it [with a touch-tone set, or course!]. When the 800 number answers, it gives a brief tone, around 1350 Hz [?]. Upon entering 0480, it rings once and gives three more tone bursts. Entering a subsequent number, with or without area code, delays for a bit, feeps a few more times, and goes to a weird busy tone. Terminating the subsequent number with ''#'' eliminates the timeout. Ideally, this thing could be a voice-synth database that would tell you the current cable/pair numbers for a given line. I believe that I give NJ Bell too much credit by assuming that they would actually have something like that set up. Anyone have any idea what this thing really is? _H* ------- ------------------------------ Date: 31 Oct 84 15:01:16 EST From: *Hobbit* Subject: DNR's To: telecom@RUTGERS.ARPA I have heard tales of a device called a Dialed Number Recorder [DNR] that the telco sometimes places on a line to record any and all touch-tone digits dialed, whether to dial an initial call or after it's connected. The purpose is apparently to log activities of fone hackers and build a case against them in event of toll fraud, etc. It seems to me that such a device would permit any telco employee free access to your personal carrier passwords, banking services, and anything else you might do over the fern using touch-tones. Is this legal? Does anyone know more about these devices, what they do, and when they may be placed on a line? _H* ------- ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest ******************************