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Article #538Re: Pay-phone hacking nostalgia
From: Tim Kuehn
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1989 04:00
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1989 04:00
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In article <7200036@silver> commgrp@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes:
....details over various phone-phreaking exploits and measures deleted...
>{inuxc,rutgers,uunet!uiucdcs,pur-ee}!iuvax!silver!commgrp
Then there's the recent news story - apparently a pay phone at a New York
airport wouldn't charge you for long distance calls out of the country
(Seems there was an error in the charging software or something.) A good
number of people were making using of this "free" facility to call their
parents, relatives, etc. back home and talk - often for hours at a time.
It was only discovered when someone was assaulted and on the way to the
hospital when the police asked him what he was doing there at that time
of the night (around 1 am) that it was found out.
Apparently this had been going on for a number of months!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!egvideo!timk From: timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Pay-phone hacking nostalgia Summary: Free international calling... Message-ID: <2038@egvideo.UUCP> Date: 14 Jun 89 04:00:00 GMT References: <7200036@silver> Reply-To: timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn) Organization: A Box in the Basement, Kitchener, ON Lines: 23