TTY phone fraud and abuse

Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. LarrySheldon at cox.net
Thu Apr 15 19:57:57 UTC 2004


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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