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>The Cat can generate all the tones phreaks love, 2600Hz, KP, MF tones.

Almost any computer with any sort of audio output (even just a driver
on a register bit) can be programmed to do this.

>I think that the POSSESSION of a Blue Box or any device that can be used
>as a blue box is illegal.  I am really not sure if its POSSESSION or USE,
>or perhaps even use with intent to defraud.

As usual, it depends on the state.  In some states, even the PLANS for a
blue box (such as were published in the ham magazine 73 some years ago)
are illegal to possess.

If there's any truth to the stories that Novation was successfully sued,
I would hope someone would post the details here.  Was it a criminal or
a civil suit?  My guess is that Novation was simply unfortunate.  I suspect
some phone phreak wrote the program to generate the tones and got it widely
distributed, leaving no trace as to his own identity.  Someone could probably
deliberately shaft a competitor (maybe anyone smaller than AT&T; that leaves
out IBM even though they have hardware that will do this) by the right phone
calls to AT&T security.

/john