[13121] in Cypherpunks
Re: Anonymous phone calls...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike McNally)
Thu May 5 12:49:06 1994
Date: Thu, 5 May 94 11:41:04 CDT
From: m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
To: SGT=DARREN=S.=HARLOW%ISB%MCTSSA@nwsfallbrook3.nwac.sea06.navy.mil
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9405051618.AA21440@toad.com>
SGT=DARREN=S.=HARLOW%ISB%MCTSSA@nwsfallbrook3.nwac.sea06.navy.mil writes:
> One of the problems of using the pre-paid cards was brought to light
> recently in the Olympic incident of Harding/Kerrigan. Harding's husband
> bought one of the cards to make phone calls and they traced the calls back to
> him via the card, since you have to present valid ID to purchase those.
Maybe in Norway you do, but not here. The Orange Cards were
completely anonymous, I think, and there's certainly no reason that a
card system couldn't be set up that is anonymous if those weren't.
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