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From: jeffw@midas.STS.TEK.COM (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: How to Hack Payphones (?!)
Keywords: hack, payphone
Message-ID: <4516@midas.STS.TEK.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 89 19:26:20 GMT
References: <3685@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: jeffw@midas.STS.TEK.COM (Jeff Winslow)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <3685@tank.uchicago.edu> barry@arthur.uchicago.edu () writes:

>A friend recently showed me a "technique" for making free phone
>calls from a payphone...

>[Note: I have not been able to do this succesfully myself---but a random
>sampling of three payphones in the U of Chicago Science Library found
>that all three had the tell-tale hole of step (2).]

One hypothesis which springs to mind is that your friend has had a lot of
fun telling different people his story and watching them go around making
holes in pay phones. Better be careful - maybe he makes his money collecting
rewards for reporting phone vandalism.   :-)

							Jeff Winslow