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THE SYNDICATE REPORT
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Information Transmittal No. 14
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Released August 21, 1987
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Featuring:
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BOC Restriction Decision Still Pending (i.wld 7\20)
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Hugo World News 1 (p80 5\20)
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Vendors Underline Commitment to ISDN, Predict Tariff Battles (i.wld 7\29)
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Proposed FCC Access Fee Draws More Criticism (i.wld 8\1)
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Silent Assault (612 Phreak) Busted (sa 8\12)
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by The Sensei
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Exposition:
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Once again, TSReport now excepts outside sources. Anyone can write/provide
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information to the Syndicate Report. The Syndicate Report is also altering
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format. Rather than concentrating mainly on BELL orientated information,
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the Syndicate Report now has a more broad interest. Thus, TSR now handles
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all types of news gatherings.
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All articles have been presented by me unless shown at the end of the
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article as the information provider(s).
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Author's Note:
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Hello, welcome to TSR 14. I hope you enjoyed the 13th issue of the
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report. TSR #13 has a Part 2 to it, so if you have not gotten it...look
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around for it. It features my day with the Interstate Cops.
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Anyways, I've set up a TSR Xfer Line. The number is 612-829-8509. It's a
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pre-recorded transfer of the Syndicate Report. To use it, dial the number,
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wait for the carrier. The baud rate is only at 300 baud, sorry. When you
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connect, you should see the report. Have your buffer on...because it's
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transfered via ASCII Mode. This is not a BBS.
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Syndicate Report Newsline is at 612-829-8503. Dial in an enjoy.
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BOC RES
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TRICTION DECISION STILL PENDING:
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Most Regional BOCs -- Limited entry of the regional Bell Operating
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Companies (BOCs) into information services may be coming, but US District Judge H.
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Greene probably won't decide until after Labor Day. In early July, Greene heard oral
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arguments from attorneys for the BOCs as well as from consumer groups, on-line industry
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officials, and the Department of Justice (DOJ), which has advocated fewer restriction
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fro the BOCs in several areas.
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"The BOCs will get some rights, but as far as what level or what role they
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will play, or even which services they will provide, no one knows which prices
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Greene may parcel out," said communications consultant G. Arlen.
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Greene is skeptical about the DOJ's proposals, which hinge on FCC
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monitoring of potential abuses by the BOCs, which would continue to control
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local phone exchanges, Arlen said.
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So uncertain is the outcome that all
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sides seems to be positioning
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themselves to lose, Arlen said. "Everyone seems to be looking to Congress as
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the next arena." But congressional action will be slow, he said.
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Some foes of broader BOC freedom are becoming more conciliatory, said
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D. Simons, president of Digital Video Corp. Recently, the American Newspaper
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Publishers Assoc. (ANPA) adopted a position permitting BOCs to provide a point
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of entry for information services. But the ANPA opposes letting the BOCs provide electronic yellow pages
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or databaselike services, he said.
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HUGO WORLD NEWS 1:
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This is from some small town newspaper and I thought it was interesting. I'll
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only type up the interesting articles since it is rather long.
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"HOW TO BEAT PHONE ASSAULT"
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- June 25, 1987 [The first few paragraphs are about this girl who was
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terrorized by some pervert on the phone] New technology- Thanks to improved
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technology, phone call tracing, known to police as putting a "trap" on the line [CLID?],
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is now a feasibile solution. Forget about old movies that depict police
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urging the perspiring victim to "Keep him talking-stay on the line!" while
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the diligent telephone engineers hurry through racks of wires to pinpoint the
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origin of the call.It's all computerized now, and the trap is quick and
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decisive, with a success rate, says Abel, "near 100 percent With our
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computerized switching center
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[ESS is what he is talking about], it's almost instantaneous." To obtain
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a telephone trap, a customer with persistent harassing calls must notify police.
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The police then contact Illinois Bell [The newspaper is from Illinois] and the
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trap is installed. A trap costs $20 for a week, $7 each additional week. In
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life-threatening situtations, there is no charge. Although Illinois Bell
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quickly locates every call made during the trap, legalities often cause a
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time lag in providing the information to police. Police eventually release the
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caller's identity to the victim and the caller is arrested. Maximum penalty
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is a six-month sentence and a $500 fine. However, as of June 1, the new state
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legislation requires a police subpoena to obtain phone trap information from
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Bell, a process lasting as long as one month.
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The Dade County Jail in Miami, Florida was slapped with a phone bill of $153,000.
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IT seems that the inmates were blue boxing, using AT&T Calling Cards,
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billing to third parties, conning operators, and that sort of stuph. One call
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on Thanksgiving was to Columbia and lasted about 3 hours. Another call to a
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dial-a-porn number lasted for about 4 hours and cost $220. The police are now
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investigating and the county's taxpayers are going to have to pay the bill. The
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payphones at the prison are supposed to be used for local calls only... yeah
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right! That's it for now..
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This first article is the most recent and I think it is very interesting (and
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funny). It comes from the Ann Landers advice column (like I read it every da
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y).
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"Check this: Ma Bell is a generous soul"
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Dear Ann Landers: I think I can top the person who wrote complaining the idiocy
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of the phone company. Talk about garbage in, garbage out! When AT&T split
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with Bell we had three phones in our house. The equipment belonged to Ma Bell
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and the service belonged to AT&T. After we returned all the phone equipment
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to Ma Bell, we received a bill for $0.00. My husband and I took turns calling
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people to get this straightened out. Shortly after that we were informed that
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our bill for $0.00 was overdue. My husband, just to be cute, sent a check to Ma
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Bell for $0.00. A few weeks later, we recieved a check for $5 and a note
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thanking us. We didn't cash the check the check, thinking this had to be a
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mistake. Several months later, we received another computerized bill for $0.00.
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We called again, got nowhere, so we sent another check for $0.00. A few weeks
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later we recieved another $5 refund with the same thank you. This went on every
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three months for two years. Now we are down to once a year and have given up
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trying to straighten this out. We just cash the $5 and forget about it. They
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say that computers don't make mistakes, but people sure do. Someone out there
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likes us very much, or they are very stupid.
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-Linda K.R. in California
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--- The Chicago Tribune ---
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Tuesday, July something (about two weeks ago) "Sign in and then sign on" James
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Dao says he has a foolproff way to foil computer hackers who ferret out secret
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passwords [FERRET??? ANYONE HERE FERRET?] and spy mechanically. Punt the
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passwords, Dao says. [punt=get rid of]. Using software developed by Dao's
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company, Communications Intelligence Corp. (CIC) of Menlo Park, Calif.,
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computer users must sign in in order to sign on. CIC's Handwriter program
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allows you to sign your name with an electronic pen on a flat plastic plate
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underlaid with a grid of wires. The computer then analyzes your signature
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against several that you have previously submitted to make sure that
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it's not a forgery before giving you access to informations. The handwriting
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analysis is more sophisticated than a simple comparison of letters. According
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to Dao, the company takes into account how quickly you write and how you
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accelerate from beginning to end. It also examines the points at which you
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apply most pressure with the pen. All of these factors are unique to your
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signature. Signature analysis is only one part of the Handwriter program.
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Other features include the ability to write longhand memos and leters that
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the computer translates into printed material. Right now, the technology
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is availiable only for mainframe and personal computers, Dao says.
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But one day, he predicts, businessmen will sit on planes scribling
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with electronic pens on plastic plates attached to laptop computers.
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"We're opening up computers to a segment of the population
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that's afraid of typing," he explains.
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-CHICAGO TRIBUNE.. TUESDAY.. SOMETIME ABOUT A WEEK OR SO AGO.
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:::::::::::::::::::Information Provided by Hugo World News::::::::::::::::::
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VENDORS UNDERLINE COMMITMENT TO ISDN, PREDICT TARIFF BATTLES:
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NAPA, CA -- Several major computer vendors, including IBM, DEC, AT&T,
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and Hayes, stressed their commitment to ISDN at a recent communications seminar.
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"We will market ISDN products and ISDN interfa
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ces," said Lark Allen,
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manager of Telecommunications Market Progs. at IBM, speaking at Dataquest's
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Telecom. Industry Conference. "Through our Rolm CBX, we will support ISDN as
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well as synchronous and asynchronous data communications."
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But ketnote speaker Ellen Hancock, president of IBM's Communications
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Products Division, said that while IBM was embracing ISDN, there was some
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concern about line costs.
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An executive from Hayes Microcomputer also expressed concern that tariffs will
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be complicated. "If tariffs for ISDN are set incorrectly, the ramp-up for
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widespread acceptance of ISDN services will be long and painful,"
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said Gary Betty, senior vice president of Hayes Microcomputer Products Inc.
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Betty also predicted that there will be a tariff battle in every state
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with the arrival of ISDN, Consequently, the industry may be slow in adopting
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an ISDN standard, he said.
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At AT&T representative, however, hinted that line costs would be
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competative, although he would not give details. R.Snow
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den, director of AT&T's Concept Development Center, said AT&T would be filing
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tariffs for ISDN service before the end of the year.
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F.Balfour, DEC product marketing manager, said that DEC also supports
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ISDN, but does not yet support it to the desktop.
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In short term, ISDN7s effect may be to lengthen the life of Centrex,
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centralized telephone functions offered by Bell Op. Companies, predicted Vic
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Krueger, Dataquest's VP for Telecom Industry Service. This is because ISDN will
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send several functions which are now being performed by PBX systems back to
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the main phone company office, according to Krueger.
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:::::::::Laurie Flynn and Sharon Fisher Contributed to this story:::::::::::
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PROPOSED FCC ACCESS FEE DRAWS MORE CRITICISM:
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Washington -- With the July 17 official FCC publication of its plan for
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enhanced service access charges, which could add up to 5$ per hour to user
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on-line connect fees, providers of information services stepped up their criticism.
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As of last week, the FCC had received more than 100 letters, all of
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them against the proposal. "Out ultimate objective is to establish a set of
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rules that provide for recovery of the costs of exchange access used in
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interstate service in a fair, reasonable, and efficient manner from all
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users of access services," read part of the proposal, CC Docket 87-215.
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"To the extempt from access charges, the other users of exchange access pay a
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disproportionate share of the costs of the local exchange that access charges
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are disigned to cover."
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"There is no basis for singling out one class of users and subjecting
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them to common carrier-type access charges simply because they are engaged in
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the provision of computer services," said G. T. DeBakey, executive director of
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Adapso, the computer software and services industry association, based in
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Arlignton, Virginia.
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DeBakey said the new fees would put prices of consumer-oriented
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information services beyond the reach of most users.
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The FCC proposal would "cause a drastic curtailment in the development
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and availability of commercial network-based information services of all kinds,"
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said Anthony L. Craig, president of GE Info. Services division, based in
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Rockville, Maryland.
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*******The deadline for public comment is August 24; the deadline for replies
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to the comments is September 24. Send them in users!
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SILENT ASSAULT (612 PHREAK) BUSTED: (Revised Sept 16, 1987)
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Minneapolis, Minnesota. TSR -- Silent Assault, a local 612 phreak, was
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apprehended for various illegal items (stated later) on January 2nd. He was
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awoken by one of his parents approximately Midnight. He asked what was wrong
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and he was told that the Secret Service was here to talk to him. He then went
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to them and they showed SA all their IDs. There was 3 SS Men. Three guys and
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One lady, and they asked him if he was Silent Assault. SA tried to act dumb
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and said he didn't know what they were talking about. SA said no, and on of the
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SS Men asked him if this was his voice. He continued to play back previous
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recordings that they had monitored on SA's Info VMS Line. About the Info Line:
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SA had a local VMS set up that he carded. He used it to report illegal
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information such as CCards, Acc Codes, Hacked Computer Systems and other misc.
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PWs. They were monitoring his line probably right away because he had carded
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the VMS instead of just hacking the PW. Anyways, after the SS Men played his
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voice, he said he didn't think it was his voice. Then they went down and
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looked at SA's system, since he had to choice, his parents already gave them
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permission. SA had everything (printouts, disks, etc.) sitting out downstairs
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since he didn't know they were coming for a visit. One of the SS Men said they
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knew what was going on, they had evidence and they were going to seize
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everything. They then told him to admit he's SA and it would go easier on
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him and they'd help him. He then said, yes I am Silent Assault. SA couldn't
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do anything about it since they had his voice on tape, and they had way of
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comparing voices.
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SA did get his computer system back, and is now active until he has to
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serve his 6 month max. sentence. He did lost about 10 ft. on printouts, over
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half his disks of hacking programs and general hack/phreak files. SA stated to
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me it was a crock of shit and all of this went on for about 3 months.
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If you have any question to the information in this file, contact the
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author. Now can be found on the following systems: Brewery Systems
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314-394-8259, Osuny BBS 914-725-4060, PGrounds CF 612-645-7132
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This concludes this transmittal No. 14 provided by:
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The Sensei of The Syndicate Report
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Released August 21, 1987
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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[Mother Earth]
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