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Joe,

I just noticed your internet address (USWEST) so look at this security issue
in two other lights...


If you were joe average user, and provided computing resources to do your
job (which was in no way related to sysadmin), then there is no reason
for you to look for holes in the system. Since you are responsible for 
producing some amount of work, your security concerns should go to your boss
and the boss of the sysadmin. Friendship issues aside, I can think of no one
these days at a management level who does not take security seriously.

Second, from a telco point of view, you do not want other users tapping
into phone lines just to show that the telephone company has security
holes. One would hope (:-{) that a private network user would present their
concerns to the telco (who is being paid by this customer) rather than 
attempt to "break their system" (The ppsn, ss7 net, etc.) just to show the
telco that security holes exist. THIS "BREAK & SHOW" IS NOT A GOOD POLICY
IN ANY CASE. 
-- 
Jon Alperin
Bell Communications Research

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* All opinions and stupid questions are my own *