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Article #4381Re: Phone Harassment
From: W. H. Sohl
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 1990 04:34
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 1990 04:34
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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.......... > Sorry, but in today's telephone network, this is impossible. There isn't a direct electrical conection between your phone and the phone at the other end. Yes, there's an electronic path, but it has many safequards that are designed to prevent "harm to the network". The situation descrobed above may have worked in older telephone switching systems, but with the advent of electronic/digital switching equipment there's simply no way it could occur. Bill Sohl Bellcore bellcore!pyuxe!whs70
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!bellcore!pyuxp!pyuxe!whs70 From: whs70@pyuxe.UUCP (W. H. Sohl) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,misc.legal Subject: Re: Phone Harassment Summary: Another impossible claim. Message-ID: <988@pyuxe.UUCP> Date: 17 Mar 90 04:34:07 GMT References: <21849@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <13746@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <1990Mar16.001210.27602@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Followup-To: misc.legal Distribution: na Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ Lines: 20