Chaos Computer Club 1997 February/cccd_beta_feb_97.iso/chaos/habi1/txt/hb1_228.txt

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    rOU J~ INT~RHATIONA L PA RTY L iNE

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    dUN[: 1973 no.19

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    Northwestern Bell Telephone is starting to take the bells out
    of pay phones to pre~rent, they claim, collect calls to pay
    phones and ''signal calls'' where people hear thetr phone ring
    once and call back to a pay phone. Thus, if you have a life-
    or-death situation wLere you must be called back, you're
    out of luck So much for the arqument that "pay phones are
    a pub}ic service". ., Robert McCrie, editor of Security Letter'
    a anti-ripoff newsletter showing companies security methoUs,
    s plug~ing YIPL for business execs. He c~s us "a bunch of
    nuts" and puts in our address with the warning "don't use the
    office address" (of their company). Security Letter, 475 Fifth
    Avenue, N. Y., N. Y. 10017. Use an office address-you're
    writing for a company, remember. Say you want to subscribe
    to Security Letter. . .John D. deButts, chairman of AT&T, m
    U. S, News and World Report, (Tomorrow's chone service-
    Whv it Win Cost More) comes up with some outrageous state-
    ~nents lU;e ''a public telephone is a public service", 'tServ~ce
    in New 70rk City today is gooUt' and''we had always felt the
    Bell System cor: panies vrere weI1 out ahead in the fairness
    ^f our employrner~t practices'h Also"~eople don't v~suadize
    the uses for Picturephones". George Orwell did in 1984,but
    deButts doesn't mention bu~ging or privacy at all. Another
    item of interest "Do yon have a telephone liste!1 for John D.
    deButts at 200 ~. 66 St?. . . Yes, that is 421-22773'.. . "In
    Kanscs City, the existence f just such an arrangement be-
    tween the teicphone cornpany and the chieI of police was re-
    vealed". That's a quote from Monocolv that YIE:L printed in
    ~ssue #1 Well friends, we all know how big corporations
    often exert pblitical pressure to help their friends into office,
    don't we? Nixon just named Clarence M. Kelley, the police
    chief of Kansas City to be Director of the Federal ~eau of
    Investigabon. Maybe all those wires will go to a little box on
    Clarence's desk. .

    MEAT!

    Several of you have written aboutrmeeung o~er phreaks
    in your area. Some fesl that this wo~ld in~rite infiltration,
    and that meeting at electrical supply stores is probably a
    lot safer. This wE' you could see who you meet before yot,
    meet ~em. Then again, you don't know if they're in the
    "field'' unless you ask. Others h~ve said that if another
    pone pihreak convention is held, t~t would be the ideal
    pJ~ce. Or, again, YIP}~ cou}d recelve requests to meet
    other phreaLs in your area, and send pairs of peopJe the
    name and n~mber of each other simul~neously, from rea-
    ders whom we £eel are cool. If you send in, be ~tient. We'll
    ~r to match ~other reader, only one, for each request.

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    HOT FLASHES-
    A friendly Pa Bell worker says tbat theugh most telephone
    kompanies use the amount of resistance in ringing the belis
    on a l~ne to del':rmine the number of phmes connected, in
    sorne (college) towns they run spot checks of total line re-
    sistances tbat detect phones even v~ith the bell disconnected.
    So a good policy is to make up a one-line "conference'' call
    maker (YIPL #lland to leave the switch in the center-off
    position wLen not in use.
    MON=Y WARFARE-
    The under~round warfare against m~ndless mec~nical band~ts
    goes on. After tbe phone, bot high up on the list Lies the coin-
    sucking parking meter. After stalRing the little beasties you
    find they f~ll into ~o ma~or types; the egg-headed cranker
    and the flat-faced c~nge sorter. The ,l~t-faced rhange sor-
    ter was the pioneer of the modern generation of coin ~uckers.
    You stuff coins in the s~de through a sinole slot; it gages the
    coin's size and gives you credit for it. The last two coins
    inserted are visible tErough two rounded windows(spray Feint)
    ar~d is very gullibie. It sucks nickels, dimes, raund pap tops,
    #14 brass wasbers. Also the la-ger pop tops wiEh the tail~s
    atfached and many other bulky items plug it and render it use-
    less till serviced. Ihe e~g-headed crander is more sophis-
    ticated. It comes with different slots on the side for different
    ccins, and has a thumb and ~ndex ccank like a nose on the
    middle of its ~ce. It ls m~ch more seiective in whnt it ~ves
    credit for. But #14 washers and, if 'JOU use great care, round
    pop to~s if they are both scotch tsped can achieve the desired
    eifect. (Be sure to carry something to push them in with l~e
    the pop top tab ~s tile tape sometimes stops the ''coinst' from
    rolling in far enough. ) WARNING: if you use fuuny money be
    ~enerows, you don't want a ticket ~om a meter that is filled
    with washers. It might lead to embarassing questions).

    After tiring of the above methods and w~shing to become a
    m~cS destroyer of meters, send to Ed~nund Scien~dfic t~o.
    (300 Edscorp ~dg., Barrington, N. J. 08007) for~their mz~s
    meter disabler (they c~ them g~nt surplus horseshoe mag-
    nets). A meter is after ~ a one-handed clock, and clocks
    ~nd magnets don't m~x. Their mor}ster 5 lb. ~ob concealed in







    a pack or p~rse can stop a meter with a couple of rubs.
    After it is stoppad any money deposited will give credit till
    city dem~gne~zes iL OFF A METER TODAY, 11 'S GOOD
    EOR YOUR SOULI AND IT FEEI;; GOOD TOO.
    ~CK EIASH IOWA-

    IF VOTING COULD CHANGE
    THE SYSTEM, IT WOULDN,T BE
    LEGAL.

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