[69615] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: TTY phone fraud and abuse
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Thu Apr 15 15:58:36 2004
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:57:57 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0404111748140.19031@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Scott Call wrote:
>
>>My point was that my $20 GE telephone cannot be made into a liability for
>>my telephone provider without my explicit participation, whereas a $20 a
>>month dialup (or $50 a month DSL, etc) customer can be a liability for me
>>just by being turned on.
>
> Although Bell Labs avoided publishing papers about weakness in the
> telephone system, it doesn't mean they don't exist. The Communications
> Fraud Control Assocation has a decent publication on communications
> fraud.
Seems like John Draper had the corner on that market for a very long
time--1960's wasn't it when we had modify all the SF's?
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