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From: kleef@cs.vu.nl (Patrick van Kleef)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Re: PhonePhreaking in Europe
Message-ID: <1107@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 07:48:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  4 07:48:33 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 17:05:59 EDT
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Reply-To: kleef@cs.vu.nl (Patrick van Kleef)
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In article <8086@think.UUCP> barmar@godot.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
>
>Yes, I noticed it contained no moral judgement about the activity.
>However, I interpreted the posting as a news story, and those are
>SUPPOSED to be non-judgemental.  It described the problem that
>European PTTs are having with phone-phreaks clearly, and that was it.
>I was glad to read it.
>
>---
>Barry Margolin
>Thinking Machines Corp.
>

And that was the only intention I had posting it. It was the first time
in Holland the telephone-system was 'phreaked' and I thought it was
news-worthy.

I might add that the article in the magazine
contained some details on what processes
take place as you dial a number, but (naturally) lacked the information
to be able to start phreaking.

BTW: there's one clear flaw in the original article. It stated that the whole
of SPain uses CCITT-C4 for the phone system. This is wrong: the system is
called SOCOTEL. But it's just as 'open' as C4 is.