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In article <1990Mar16.001210.27602@ddsw1.MCS.COM> benfeen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) writes:
>I saw an interesting method of getting back at phone harrassers - It
>involves a car battery, a large capacitor, and some wiring thru your phone.
>I'm not gonna go into it, but if you go through a certain sequence, you can
>send a surge through Ma Bell's wires, straight into the offender's
>handset..........

   Give us all a break. There are a whole host of reasons why this won't
work. To start with, there is a reason why telephone handsets are made of
non-conductive material - to protect the user against electrical shock
due to lightning strikes or (possibly) power lines shorted to phone lines.

   Furthermore, there isn't necessarily a DC circuit from your phone
to the offender's. In fact, without much data to back this up, I'd assert
there is a great likelihood that no DC circuit exists on almost any phone
call today. What if an extra-terrestrial link is in use (satellite link)?
Where are the wires?

  Such an approach would do no more than fry the phone the battery, capacitor
and wires are applied to.

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