[91652] in Cypherpunks
Re: Remailer Trivia / Re: Singapore & Freedom (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jrbl Pookah)
Tue Dec 9 16:32:34 1997
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 15:57:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Jrbl Pookah <lists@castle5.castlec.com>
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com
In-Reply-To: <199712091400.IAA04323@einstein.ssz.com>
Reply-To: Jrbl Pookah <lists@castle5.castlec.com>
> > Jim Choate writes:
> >
> > > To the best of my knowledge no phone company anywhere
> > > will allow a customer to purchase service without identifying themselves to
> > > the phone company. Please let me know if there is such a beast somewhere.
Hmm. Excuse the interruption into your conversation here, but
I've signed up (in the past) for long-distance service under an assumed
name, on a telephone line that I held in a different assumed name. At
least in Cincinnati, OH, the phone company didn't (doesn't?) really care,
as long as they had a place to send the bills. When they asked for my
SSN, I simply told them I wouldn't give it to them, and offered my
date-of-birth - which I lied about. They didn't mind.
