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THE SYNDICATE REPORT
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Information Transmittal No. 16
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(Part 1)
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Released October 21, 1987
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Featuring:
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Exposition / Author's Note (sr ;32-50)
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FCC Lengthens Access Charge Comment Period (i.w 9\21;74)
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Judge Greene Eases Information Services Restrictions on BOCs (i.w 9\21;94)
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Cellular Phones and Cops (b.w 9\21;134)
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IBM Enhanced Telecommunications Wares (i.w 10\6;177)
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5$ Billion Federal Phone System -- New Players in GSA Game (b.w 10\6;190)
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FAX and AT&T .08$ Per-Page Agreement (b.w 10\7;208)
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Syndicate Report Brief Notes (digest 9\17;227)
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by The Sensei
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Exposition:
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TSR
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Once again, TSReport now excepts outside sources. Anyone can write/provide
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information to The Syndicate Report. Articles/Information may be provided
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through TSR Newsline (see below), via voice VMS System. Any info such as
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Busts, Phreaking, Hacking, Data / TeleCommunications, and new developments
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on any the previous mentioned specialities will be: accepted, labeled, and
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given full actual credit by the article/info provider(s), or writer(s). --
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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), or writer(s).
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You can reach me at The Syndicate Voice Mail System at 415-468-2950
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My box number is #2005. I may have updates to the Syndicate Report on the
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Syndicate VMS -- Check it out.
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Author's Note: TSR
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Hello, I'm writing this the day the report is due out for official
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Sponsor Systems such as FreeWorld // Private (# listed later). All other
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systems get the report on the day of distribution, or whenever it gets uploaded
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by me or another user.
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A lot has been going on this past month. To start out, the (local to
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myself) Minnesota Twins are currently combating for the World Series Title.
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2 games have already been played against The St. Lois Cardinals, which The
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Twins have already won 2 with ease. The 1st game was 10-1, and the 2nd game
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was 8-4. It's not really telecommunications news - but it is history. And it
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do think the Twins will take it for '87. Secondly on the list, and not also
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not really related to telecom is The Stock Market Crash. On the date of
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10-19-87, the Market took over a 500 point plung, beating Black Tuesday's
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record (Starting the G.Depression). Thirdly, Iran and the the United States
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are slapping each other in the face. We just got done bombing a few Oil
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Bases - thus Iran declared WAR.
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This is of course not official until the US also declares war. Reagan's quote
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of the history books "They're not that stupid." And lastly, but not nearly as
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record breaking...I was busted for hacking my local PhoneMail VMS System.
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(Details later in the Report). -Enjoy.
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FCC LENGHTENS ACCESS CHARGE COMMENT PERIOD: TSR
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The FCC has extended the cOmment period for its proposed acces chanrges
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that could raise on-line provider rates as much as 5$ an hour. Originally,
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the last date for public comment was to have been Sept. 14. In August the FCC
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extended the comment period until Sept. 24, and replies can be submitted until
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October 26.
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The extension was requested by a consortium of 23 companies and
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organizations headed by Adapso, the computer software and services trade
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group. The group said it needed more time to prepare its responses to the FCC
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access charge proposals. In the meantime, public comment on the matter
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(Docket No. 87-215) has been running overwhelmingly against the proposal, with
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many letters from on-line service users at major universities protesting the
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financial hardship the new access charges would inflict on them.
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* Again People! - Send in those COMMENTS to the FCC! * -Ts
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JUDGE GREENE EASES INFORMATION SERVICES RESTRICTIONS ON BOCs: TSR
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The federal judge who presided over the breakup of the Bell System has
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decided to relax some restrictions barring the Regional BOCs (Bell Operating
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Companies) from providing information services.
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In a 223-page decision, US District Judge Harold H. Greene from the
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District of Columbia said he is prepared to let BOCs provide gateways to
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infomation services, including X.25 protocol conversion, but BOCs would not
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be allowed to provide contun: for those services.
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Greene ordered interested parties to submit proposals by Sept. 30.
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After a short reply period, Greene said he will issue an order modifying the
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present restrictions.
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Judge Greene's action disappointed Regional BOCs, which, with the US
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Justice Dept., had advocated lifting all restrictions on BOCs providing
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information services. "Today's decision places the benefits of modern tele- communications services just beyong the reach of most telephone customers,"
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read a statement from Arthur C. Latno, executive vice president of Pacific
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Telesis Group, a San Franciso-based BOC. "We sincerely hope that today's
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ruling will be short-lived and that potentially damaging consequences to our
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telecommunications infrastructure don't result."
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The Information Industry Assoc. (IIA), which represents information
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providers such as CompuServe, applauded Greene's decision. "By permitting the
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BOCs to provide gateway services, the Judge's decision is expected to further
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the development of new information services," said Paul Zurkowski, president
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of the IIA.
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In the opinion, Greene noted that the United States lags behind other
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countries, particularly France, in providing information services to consumers.
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"The French information services scheme permits individual citizens to
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secure an enormous number of variety of information services with ease and at
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a reasonable cost," Greene stated.
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CELLULAR PHONES AND COPS:
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The cellular phone's versatility is winning big fans in local govern-
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ments across the country. The Sheriff's Dept. in Boulder County, Colo., uses
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13 cellular phones for more extended and private conversations than it can get
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from its regular police radios, according to Captain Charles Co. Pringle,
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head of staff services at the department. But criminals are gong high-tech,
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too. For some time now, drug dealers in New York City's South Bronx have used
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radio-paging devices to reach customers.
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Now that they've gone cellular,these people can make calls that automatically
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are switched among the cellular systems's 333 frequencies -- and
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law-enforcements officials are find finding it increasingly hard to eavesdrop on
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perpetrators.
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Some facts for the interested:
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THE TOP 10 CELLULAR PHONE COMPANIES
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McCaw Cellular 37.1
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SouthWestern Bell Mobile 25.0
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PacTel Cellular 23.0
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GE MobilNet 21.4
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Bell Atlantic Mobile 17.5
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BellSouth Mobility 16.9
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Nynex Mobile 16.4
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Linn Broadcasting 16.3
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AmeriTech Mobile 15.1
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New Vector (U.S. West) 10.8
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^^^^ POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS (MILLIONS)
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IBM ENCHANCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS WARES: TSR
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IBM is expected to make some high-end telecommunications announcements tomorrow
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in New York. Frank Dzubeck, president of Communications Network Architects Inc.,
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said IBM's Rolm subsidiary will announce enhancements and modifications to the
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company's PBX products. IBM may also announce some minor enhancements to its
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Netview network management system on a level that Dzubeck referred to as
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"tweaking."
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IBM spokeswoman Jeanett a Maher confirmed that the announcements
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concerned Rolm but would not provide details.
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5$ BILLION FEDERAL PHONE SYSTEM TSR
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NEW PLAYERS IN GSA GAME:
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NOTE: [This articles is a follow up on '$5 Billion Dollar Contract Out For New
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Government Phone System - Syndicate Report Transmittal #15 Part 1]
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The General Services Administration (GSA), bowing to the wishes of
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House Government Operations Committee Chairman Jack Brooks (D-Tex), now wants
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two contractors instead of one for the new $5 Billion Fed. TelePhone System
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(FTS). But several government agencies may seek their own phone systems rather
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than wait for FTS to materialize. The bidding pits AT&T, the incumbent supplier
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of phone services, and its partner, Boeing, against 12-member team consisting
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of Marin Marietta, MCI, and AT&T's former local phone companies. Two dropouts,
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General Motors' Electronic Data Systems and partner US Sprint, may reenter the
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bidding.
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FAX AND AT&T .08$ PER-PAGE AGREEMENT:
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Digital Tech. has been improving fax machines for several years now.
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The most sophosticated models can send a page anywhere in seconds, instead of
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the minutres required by conventional machines, cutting long-distance bills.
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But with price tags of 10,000$, the advanced machines are a bit expensive.
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Now US Fax Inc. says it can give owners of conventional machnes the savings of
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digital transmission.
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The Philadelphia startup will take fax messages over local phone lines
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and then relay them over long distancs via AT&T Co.'s high speed digital
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network. A customer with a touch-tone phone simply calls a local US Fax
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number and sends a message. The service costs 2$ a month plus .25$ for each
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call and a charge of about .08$ per page. The new service also provides other
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high-cost fax features, such as the ability to broadcast the message to
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multiple to multiple receivers.
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::SYNDICATE REPORT BRIEF NOTES::
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No Data Bases For The Baby Bells:
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Information companies are breathing easier after a US District Court
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ruling on Sept. 10 that bars the seven regional Bell companies from thecomputer data-base business -- for the next few years, at least. Although
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Judge Harold H. Greenes order does let the Bells transmit information
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gathered by others, it's uncertain whether centralized phone-answering
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services and electronic mail are still prohibited. A 45-day public comment
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period should help clariy the questions.
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FCC Tax Info:
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FCC will most likely not be charging private/Bul.Board Systems such as
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FreeWorld //, Osuny BBS etc. The 5.00$/hr tax will be directed to the large
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computer databases such as the Source, CompuServe, etc. The BILL (Docket No.
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87-215) does look like it's going to be passed (If not already), according to
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B. Maher, FCC Policy Official. The number to reach him is at 202-632-6047.
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Cops Capture Clear FingerPrints:
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A new device was made recently calls Veridex. The machine's maker,
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Fingermatrix Inc. of North White Plains, NY., says it produces electronic
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fingerprints 10 times clearer than those made with ink -- which 40% of all
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ink cards are ususable.
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Veridex' secret is an opticaal scanner hooked up to a laser printer.
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Stick a finger under the scanner, and it produces a digitized topographic
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"prnt" that can be copied onto a standard law enforcementcard or transmitted
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electronically to an automated fingerprint file. While each print takes about
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a minute to make, the machine can churn out as many as 15 copies every 30
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seconds. Drawbacks? Perhaps one: At a cost of up to 100,000$ for the full
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package, this device is too expensive for every detective's pockets. Still,
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Fingermatrix says the machines is being tested by the Federal Bureau of
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Intevestigation, the California Justice Dept., and others.
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U S Sprint Receiving ANI:
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A recent rumor was confirmed that U S Sprint will be getting ANI soon.
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In LA, they will be replacing DEC 600 with a DMS 250. This will allow U S
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Sprint to receive CCIS data from all the incoming T1 Links from Class 4 Tandem
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Offices - so they will have originating number on all feature group A, B and
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D calls. This process is called CCS7 and is another step towards ISDN.
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Installation date for the 0777 Los Angelas switch is scheduled January '88.
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The Oct 22 rumor date is the official start up date. This however, is
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not for sure. CCS7 will also allow a direct link between BELL and the Sprint
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billing computers -- clearing up Sprint's billing problems.
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Many of the other major LDS's will be switching to CCS7. AT&T already
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have completed the cross-over. It was also found out that with feature group
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B and D, Sprint does'nt have to actually pick up a local line and dial the
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destination #, it's done by Wink - Start and Inband Standard Multi Freq. Touch
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Tones directly conneting the Sprint originated call to the local Bell Network.
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Some LDS's do still use feature group A, which actually picks up a line,
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listens for tone, then dials your destination number. Some of you might have
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found these numbers and intercepted calls by dialing the dial out number, and
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waiting for it to pick up. Agent Steals adds that a complete verification
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should be done by interested users.
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This concludes this Transmittal No. 16
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(Part 1)
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by The Sensei of The Syndicate Report
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Released October 21st, 1987
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THE SYNDICATE REPORT
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Information Transmittal No. 16
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(Part 2)
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Released October 21, 1987
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Featuring:
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Exposition / Author's Note (sr ;35-51)
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PCs and Phone Companies Not Ideal Couples (b.w 10\10;74)
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Japan Is Getting a Truly Smart Credit Card (b.w 10\10;90)
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Visa USA Takes to The Airwaves to Nail Thieves (b.w 10\10;109)
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NJ Bell Tests Service That Displays Incoming Calls (dig.lg 10\10; )
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Wang & ITT Considered Merger (cis 10\20; )
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Pactel Proposes Definition For Bell Information Services (cis 10\20; )
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TSR Editor Gets Visit From Local VMS Officials (sr 10\20; )
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Syndicate Report Brief Notes (digest 9\17;175)
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by The Sensei
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Exposition: TSR
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Once again, TSReport now excepts outside sources. Anyone can write/provide
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information to The Syndicate Report. Articles/Information may be provided
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through TSR Newsline (see below), via voice VMS System. Any info such as
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Busts, Phreaking, Hacking, Data / TeleCommunications, and new developments
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on any the previous mentioned specialities will be: accepted, labeled, and
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given full actual credit by the article/info provider(s), or writer(s). --
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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), or writer(s).
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Syndicate Voice Mail System - 415-468-2950 box #2005
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Author's Note: TSR
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Welcome to Part 2 of TSR #16. Not much more to say, I typed out a
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summary of this month in Part 1 pretty well. Just a few things on note:
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Phrack Inc. has a transfer system. It's running under a Unix V System.
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Now for you hackers that are licking their lips at Unix V's...the login shell
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is all automatic...no commands. This may change, but I doubt
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Mt. Phrack Unix V Transfer System:
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(Set up by The Disk Jockey) 317-962-0277 login: phrack
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Here's my Unix V System info....act's much that same as Phrack's but
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you have to enter 'mail' when logged in. Syndicate Report Xfer System:
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612-829-2298 login: larryl -Happy Hacking.
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PCs AND PHONE COMPANIES NOT IDEAL COUPLES: TSR
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When the seven regional Bell Phone CO's were first allowed to flex
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their muscles, computer stores looked like a great oportunity. But not the
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Baby Bell's experiments in computer retaiing look like an expensive lesson in
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free enterprise. Bell Atlantic Corp. is closing 24 of its 40 remaining
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CompuShop Inc. stores -- ater shuttering 27 a year ago -- and laying off 30%
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of its computer sales force. Nynex Corp., which built a 92-store chain
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largely by acquiring 81 former International Business Machines Corp. outlets,
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it telling analysists that, after three years, its stores will finally break
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even in the fourth quarter.
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JAPAN IS GETTING A TRULY SMART CREDIT CARD: TSR
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VISA International has plans to est 2,00 supersmart credit cards in
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Japan next fall. If all goes will, full-scale production could begin in 1990.
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Thecards looks like a creditcard ont the front. On the back, it looks
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like a calculator. Inside, it has the smarts of a portable computer,
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including a micropocessor and memory. When a purchase is made, the amount of
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the transaction plus an identification code must be entered. If all is in
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order, the card authorizes the purchase and records the new balance in its
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memory. Toshiba Corp., which will make the cards, is testing the card with
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VISA and NT&T, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. NT&T has plans to install
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phones that let the card work as an automatic dialer.
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[Have fun credit card fraudists!] -The Sensei / TSR
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...VISA USA TAKES TO THE AIRWAVES TO NAIL THIEVES: TSR
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In the US, Visa USA Inc. is experimenting with another technology:
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transmitting data via FM radio waves. Using services and equipment supplied by
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Indesys Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif., Visa is testing a system for sending
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retailers information about stolen or invalid credit cards. In some stores,
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the system could place the printed lists of fraudulent and stolen
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card numbersthat Visa now istributes every week or two.
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Here's how it works: Visa sends a nightly update to its credit card
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data base to Indesys headquarters, which then relays the data to commmercial
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radio stations for broadcasting. Each sLLS:
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TSR NEWARK, N.J. - Local telephone customers in New Jersey will be able
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to screen their incoming calls in a controversial test by New Jersey
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Bell Telephone Co., beginning in early November.
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The New Jersey Board OF Management services on about 250,000 local customers.
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The test will occur in six exchange areas in Atlantic and Hudson
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counties to determine whether the services, call CLASS, should be
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offered statewide. The experiment is scheduled to last until
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September 1989.
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New Jersey Bell originally sought permission to test CLASS last
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November, but withdrew the proposal in March for further study. The
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telephone company has said the delay had nothing to do with
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opposition to one of the CLASS services, called Call Identification.
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Call Identification would let users with special display
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attachments view the number of the person placing the incoming call.
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That would enable the answering party to decide whether to take the
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call.
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Another CLASS service, Call Trace, lets customers have the phone
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company trace a call - but only for law enforcement purposes - by
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hanging up on the call and dialing prescribed digits.
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Other services grouped under CLASS include the ability to let
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customers dial back the last incoming call whether or not the user
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answered it; re-dial the last outgoing call; key in up c+c%MQ%9
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Q%3I%9;=9%kA=IQ9#5)Ealls; block unwanted calls; and forward calls.
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Excepting Call Identification and Call Trace, CLASS will cost
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residential users $4 per month for the first service and $1.50 per
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month for each additional service.
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Call Identification will cost $6.50 per month for residential
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customers and $8.50 per month forbusiness users. The display
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attachment, about $65, is expected at electronics stores sometime
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this fall.
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WANG & ITT CONSIDERED MERGER: TSR
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Wang Laboratories Inc. and ITT Corp. apparently held secret talks about a
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possible merger two years ago when ITT was under attack by corporate raiders.
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Nothing came
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of the talks, though, reportedly because Wang wanted to maintain
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control of the combined companies.
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That's story sources say will be reported in a new book called "Tumultuous
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Years: A Personal Account of the Rebuilding of ITT," by ITT Chairman Rand V.
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Araskog.
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To The Boston Globe, Wang spokesman Paul Henning has confirmed that company
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founder An Asshole Discussions with Araskog in 1985, calling the talks
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"general in nature and cordial" but adding they "resulted in no substantive
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agreements."
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The Glob
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e reports that Araskog's book, to be published by Henry Holt Inc. of
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New York, also discloses similar talks with other companies.
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PACTEL PROPOSES DEFINITION FOR BELL INFORMATION SERVICES: TSR
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Pacific Telesis Group has proposed a definition that would allow Bell
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Regional holding companies to provide certain types of information services
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that do not substantially change the content of information sent and received
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by other parties.
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The California telecommunications company filed the definition change, which
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was ordered by the courts on September 10, to lift certain restrictions on
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information services imposed on the regional holding companies under the
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consent decree that broke up AT&T in 1984. At that time the court indicated
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that the regional holding companies may provide "transmission-type" information
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services but not "content-related" services.
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The Pacific Telesis proposal considers that transmission-type information
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services include "transforming, processing, guiding, storing or retrieving
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information in connection with the transmission of information, provided such
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activities do not substantially alter the content of the information as sent
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and received."
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According to Pacific Telesis, these services may also provide introductory
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information content services, billing and collection services for information
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service providers and providing for the electronic delivery of directory
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services which might include a list of general product and business categories,
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service or product providers under these categories and their names, telephone
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numbers and addresses. This definition, noted Pacific Telesis, allows for
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changes in the form of transmitted messages, but in keeping with the court's
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intent, doesn't allow for substantial changes to the content of messages.
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"By design, the scope of the proposed definition is quite broad. We feel it
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must be framed in these terms to accommodate rapid changes in industry
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technology and the marketplace and, above all, to allow for easy and efficient
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communication between information services providers and consumers," said
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Arthur C. Latno Jr., Pacific Telesis' executive vice president. "Our definition
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would allow the RHCs to offer consumers access to audiotex and videotex
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services and a variety of information databases."
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The proposed changes submitted to the court will be considered along with
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other comments@from interested parties. It's not known when the court will issuea
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decision.
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TSR EDITOR GETS VISIT FROM LOCAL VMS OFFICIALS: TSR
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That's right, the TSR Editor in the title definately does symbolize
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me...The Sensei. It's not a very glamorous visit, but here's the story: It
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was Wednesday the 14th of this month in October. Just after school....I logged
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into my local VMS Boxes (8504/8503 etc) to check messages. After logging in,
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I was suprised to hear I had no new messages. I usually averaged 4 new
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messages during the day. Well, I hang up and set up the terminal prog to call
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a few systems. Just as I pick up the phone, my older brother yells to me that
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someone was here to visit me about my computer. Well, you can imagine what I
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thought. I went through the routine of hiding a few disks and files. I then
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walk upstairs to be greeted by an Official from The Connection (a local
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VMS/411 psuedo-service.), and an Agent.
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They were really nice to me at first. They came up to shake my hand and
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tell me politely I was on the edge of serving time for Edina Minnesota police.
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Up to 90 days, or 700.00$ fine could be brought down on my under Criminal
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Code Statue 609.89 of COMPUTER THEFT. They said they could have tooken all
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the phones in the house and my computer. I couldn't really understand at first
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why they had the right to take my computer. But I thought to myself, this is
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the government...they do as they usually wish to an extent. But I also
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remembered I used the Connection VMS to transfer my Syndicate Report and other
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files I made via computer. They had no warrant, but I wanted to be as
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well cooperated as possible, thus to not make the situation a big fuss. They
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asked to see the computer system I had...I showed them gladly since I knew
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there was no problem in that direction. They also told me right off the bat
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that if I was 18, I'd be in jail etc. I was glad for that law. But they also
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pointed out about some 9 kids (under aged) got busted very recently for carding
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a load of items and sending them to a house - the Judge sentenced them as
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adults. The Judge went on bases that if they kids knew how to do all that,
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then they will be tried as adults. Getting back, they then showed me Syndicate
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Report #14 to me. (Nice prinout may I add) This was the month for Report
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#15 Parts 1 and 2, but I hadn't gotten around to posting it on the VMS line.
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After a while of BSing on such topics as: Why do I Hack, write TSR,
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scan systems and commit other related deeds. I only agreed that yeah, I
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hacked systems...but only to explore them and learn how they work - Not to
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destroy. Well, they then prompted me that the Secret Service had some of my
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Reports and they didn't want to get involved to much.
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That's the story. Again like last time, they said they may inform me if
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anything was to come out of it. I'm not worried for now, till the 18th BDay
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rolls around. One last thing, I was caught by my own carelessness - A few of
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you may have an idea how, but I'm not going into that.
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Becareful out there. -The Sensei of The Syndicate Report Magazine.
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TSR will accept additional sponsor/support Systems. If you have an
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interest in the Report and wish to provide support to TSR -- Leave your BBS
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number and any other information to TSR VMS Lines listed above.
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Freeworld // 301-668-7657 : Brewery 314-394-8259 : Lunatic Labs 612-645-7132
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Realm of Reality 612-420-6486 : Osuny* 914-725-4060 : Exec. Inn 915-581-5145
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This concludes this Transmittal No. 16
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(Part 2)
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by The Sensei of The Syndicate Report
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Released October 21st, 1987
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