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THE SYNDICATE REPORT
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Information Transmittal No. 18
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(Part 2 of 2)
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Released November 30, 1988
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Featuring:
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Abbie Hoffman at Democratic National Convention
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Job Screening Over the Phone
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Tapping Phone Lines (Voice/Data) by Agent Steal
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Syndicate Report Brief Notes/2
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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 RADIO WAVES Bulletin Board System 612-471-0060. 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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Author's Note: TSR
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Happy Holidays! Syndicate Report is back for another Telecommunications
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Transmittal. It's been about 1 year or so since the Report was last published
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(Dec. 30 '87). I stop writing it for a few reasons: The Interstate Police
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, Minneapolis Cops, and CIA kept interupting my computer activities. Info.
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about the visits are in previous TS Reports.
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** Future issues of TSR may include a section devoted to telecommunications
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vocabulary. This index will cover around 10-20 words every Transmittal. A
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vast vocabulary is any sense is powerful.
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-Enjoy...and spread the word and file of The Report! Thanks.
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ABBIE HOFFMAN AT DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: TSR (t.c 11\27)
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(This is just a outline/converstion to Abbie Hoffman at the Democratic
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National Convention.)
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Standing on the up escalator at the Convention, I spot Abbie Hoffman,
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alumnus of the '68 Democratic National Convention, standing on the adjacent
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down escalator. Abbie Hoffman. Flamboyant member of the Chicago Seven.
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Former fugitive from justice and plastic surgery patient.
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Author of: 'Revolution for the Hell of It' -- 'Steal this Book'
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'Steal this Urine Test'
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...and most recently, a comrade-in-arms of college protester Amy Carter
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in the well-publicized legal battle with the CIA over its campus recruitment
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tactics. Abbie's hair and beard are graying and his color is sallow. He wears
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a red lifeguard shirt and shorts. There is a big plastic cast on one hand
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and a bandage on one foot. Reaching the uppper level, I go to the railing
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and watch Abbie get off the escalator on the floor below. Unlike many of the
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notables I have seen, Abbie does not walk with a rushed, purposeful, type-A
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gait. He strolls casually up to a souvenir table and begins looking over the
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merchandise. He picks up a white baseball cap with "DNC" written across the
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front, tries it on, and, still wearing it, wanders odnw to the other end of
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the table to look at more souvenirs.
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Abbie seems approachable enough. I take the escalator down, and when
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I reach him he is standing away from the table, looking around. I introduce
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myself and extand my hand, grabbing and shaking the plastic cast he is wearing
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on his arm. He studies the press credentials around my neck, "Where you from?"
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he says. "Georgia, by way of Minnesota," I say.
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"Who you writing for?"
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"Twin Cities magazine."
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"Oh, yeah," Abbie Hoffman says, nodding, "I heard of them." Abbie scans the
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crowd distractedly. He tells me he's here for Vintage Press, writing a book
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on the convention. He's also doing an article for 'Playboy'. Then he grins
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at me for the first time and laughs. "I'm gonna take a big bite outta Bush!"
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I smile, nod politely.
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Abbie looks down at his lifegaurd get-up. "Thought I'd dress up for the
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occasion," he says. "Yesterday I was wearing the T-shit that said, 'No Bush,
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No Bullshit!' " He laughs loudly at me again. Suddenly he grows pensive and
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looks around at the crowd some more. He tells me that he's gotten separated
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from his photographer and asks if I knew some easy way to get across the
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street to where the satellite dishes are located behind the Omni, because
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that's where he and the photographer pahked the cah.
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"You mean over near the CBS trailers?"
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"Yeah."
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I think about it. "The only way I know is to walk," I say.
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"Yeah, but I got a broken foot!" he says, pointing.
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I look down at his foot. "What happened to you?" I ask.
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Abbie shrugs. "I got in an accident with this truck in New Jersey," he says.
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He spots an escalator off to the side, heding down to another floor.
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"Maybe down there, huh?" He walks over to it, ets on.
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"Take care," I call to him.
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Abbie looks back, raises his cast in salutation, and descends out of sight.
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I head back to the other escalators, and, going up, wonder breifly if Abbie
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Hoffman paid for the white Democratic National Convention baseball cap he was
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wearing.
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JOB SCREENING OVER THE PHONE: TSR (mod.tech 11\27)
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With the passing of the Employee Polygraph Protection Act by President
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Reagan on June 27 banning lie detector, companies wil now have to look for new
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methods to screen future job applicants.
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One company offers a unique solution that complies with the new law.
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TeleScreen, Inc. (Atlanta, GA) has developed a computerized, self-administered
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telephone interviewing method that lets applicants respond to answers using
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a touchtone telephone. The testing process, also called TeleScreen, is a
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series of 150 prerecorded questions convering such areas as previous
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employment, absenteeism, past criminal record, and substance abuse.
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Applicants answer by pressing the "1" key for "Yes," the "3" key for "No,"
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and the "0" for "Not Applicable." The interview is conducted from a toll-free
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800 number and takes twenty minutes.
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TeleScreen's creators claim people are less likely to lie with this
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method that with traditional tests. "People are more inclined to be truthful
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to a machine than to another human being because the telephone is not
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intimidating," says Charles Lambert, vice president of TeleScreen.
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"All questions are asked with the same non-threatening tone of voice,"
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he continues. "TeleScreen shows consistency and inconsistency in their
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answers. Applicants cannot look back or see how they answered before."
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The test has been used by over 225 firms.
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TAPPING TELEPHONE LINES (Voice/Data) BY AGENT STEAL: TSR (a.s 11\28)
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...For phun, money, and passwords - Or how to go to jail for a long
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time. Information included in this article: Equipment Needed, Where to buy,
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How to connect it, How to read recorded data, How I found a Tymnet Node, And
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how I got in.
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The Equipment: First thing you need is an audio tape recorder. What you will be recording whether it be voice or data will be in an analog autio format.
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From now on, most references will be towards data recording. Most standard
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cassette recorders will nork just fine. The two types of recorders I would
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advise staying away from (for data) are micro cassette recorders and the
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standard cassette recorders that have been modified for 8 to 10 hour record
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time. The speed of these units are too unstable. Next item you need, oddly
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enough, is sold by Radio Shack under the name "Telephone Recording Control"
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Part #43-236 $20-25.00 Page 88 1988 Catalog.
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How To Connect It: The telephone recording control (TRC) has 3 wires coming
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out of it.
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#1 Telco wire with modular jack. Cut this, and seperate into red and green,
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and attach some alligator clips.
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#2 Audio wire with minature phone jack (not phone). This plugs into the
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microphone level input jack of tape recorder.
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#3 Audio wire with sub minature phone jack. This plugs into the "REM" or
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Remote Control Jack of the tape recorder.
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Now all you need to do is find the telephone line, connect the alligator
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clips, turn the recorder on and come back later. Whenever the line goes off
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the hook, the recorder starts. Its that simple.
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Reading the Data: This is the tricky part. Different modems and different
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software respond differently but there are basics. The modem should be
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connected as usual to the Telco line and computer. Now connect the speaker
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output of the tape player directly to the telephone line. Puck up the phone
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and dial the high side of a loop, or silent terminal so your line doesn't make
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any noise. Now, command your modem into the answer modem and press play. The
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tape should be lined up at the beginning of the recorded phone call. Natually
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so you can see the login. Only one side of the transmission between the host
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and terminal can be monitored at a time. Going to the originate modem you
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will see what the host transmitted.
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A couple problems may occur with garbled characters. Try connecting the
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speaker output to the microphone of the handset to your phone. Use a 1 to 1
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coupling transformer between the tape player input and the TRC Audio Output.
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These problems are usually caused when using A.C. powered equipment. 1200
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baud was difficult to read, but it is possible. It's nice to have an excellent
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modem, also.
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How Crazy I Am: Passwords Galor! After numberous calls to several Bell
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Offices, I found one that handled Tymnet's Account. Here's a rough transcript:
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OP: Pacific Bell Priority Customer Order Dept. How may I help you?
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ME: Good morning, this is Mr. Miller with Tymnet Inc. We're interested in
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adding some service to out X town location.
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OP: I'll be happy to help you Mr. Miller.
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ME: I need to know how many lines we have coming in on our rotary and if we
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have extra pairs on our trunk. We are considering adding ten additional lines
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on that rotary and maybe some FX service.
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OP: Okay, what's the number this is in reference to?
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ME: XXX-XXX-XXXX (loca node #)
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OP: Hold on....ok, Bla Bla Bla etc.
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Well, you get the idea. After asking a few more questions I asked her
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the address. No problem, she didn't hesitate. This all could have been
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avoided with a touch of CNA, but they don't just give out addresses in
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my area.
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Dressed in my best Telco outfit. Pac*Bell baseball cap, tool belt and
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test set I was out the door. There it was, just an office building, even had a
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computer store in it. After exploring the building for a while, I found it.
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A large steel door with a push button lock. Back to the phone, and I found
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that service tech. number and chatted with the mgr.
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MGR: Hell, this is Joe Moron.
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ME: Hi, this is Miller ( I like that name ) with PacBel. I'm down here at
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your x town node and we're having problems locating a gas leak in one of our
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trunks. I beleive our trunk terminates pressurization in your room.
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MSR: I'm not sure, how can I help? ME: Well, could you have someone meet me down here or give me the entry code?
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MGR: Sure, the code is 1234.
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ME: Thanks, I'll let you know if there's any trouble.
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So I ran home, got my VCR (Stereo) and picked up another TRC from Trash
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Shack. I connected the VCR to the first to imcoming lines on the rotary. One
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of each channel (left,right). Since the volume of calls is almost consistant,
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it wasn't neccesary to stop the recorder between calls. The VCR was placed
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under the floor, in case a tech. happened to come by for problems. These nodes
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are little computer rooms with air conditioners and raised floors. The modems
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and packet equipment are all rack mounted behind glass. Also, most of the
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nodes are unmanned. This is what I got: A lot of above 300 bps connections,
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Credit Card verifications, and the rest as follows:
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Easylink, Compuserve, Quantumlink, 3MMail, People Link, Dow Jones,
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Homebanking, USPS, Crystler Parts Order, Yamaha Parts, & Ford Parts
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When I went back down there the code had been changed. Why? Well I
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didn't want to find out. I was out of there! I told a couple people who later
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I found could not to trusted, oh well. Better safe the sorry. If you need to
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reach me, dial Lunatic Labs at 415-278-7421.
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::SYNDICATE REPORT BRIEF NOTES::
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//MCI Sets up Network for Facsimiles//
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Hoping to do for the facsimile market what it did to electronic mail,
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MCI announced last week a dedicated network for high-speed fax transmissions.
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Subscribers to the MCI Fax service, which will start at the end of the month,
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will be able to transmit fax messages at speeds of 9600 bps and higher over a
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digital fiber network. MCI Fax will work with all fax equipment - including
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PCs with fax boards - and will support non-fax methods such as telex and
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electronic mail.
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//Top-Secret Satellite Readied//
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Engineers at Cape Canaveral, Fla., have readied a top-secret
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satellite. It will be placed on the space shuttle Atlantis this week
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on the launch pad. Blastoff is targeted for Nov. 29.
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//AT&T Wins Pentagon Computer Competition//
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The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. has won a spirited competition to
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provide thousands of new computers to the Defense Department, establishing
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its position in the industry for years to come with what has been described
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as the computer contract of the century.
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The contract was worth $929.1 million.
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AT&T officials said its value could ultimately exceed $1 billion, depending
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on the options exercised.
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The Air Force, which acted as the agent for the other services in
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overseeing the bidding, said an AT&T subsidiary, AT&T Technologies Inc.,
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had been selected over five competitors and would now be expected to
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deliver some 20,000 mini-computers over the next five years.
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//Brain Enrolls in School//
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An obnoxious brain recently found its way onto the University
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of Houston campus. The Pakistan micro-computer virus, which
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displays the word "Brain" on the disk it infects, was found in the
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university's College of Business, says Computerworld. The virus
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did no real harm, school officials said. It has also appeared at
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Bowie, Md., State College and Providence Journal Co. in Rhode
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Island.
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\ This transmittal's monthly statement: "Beware - 'rsh' Restricted Unix
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Shell System."
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TSR will accept additional sponsor/support Systems. If you have a certain
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* Lunatic Labs ::: 415-278-7421 *
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This concludes this Transmittal No. 18
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(Part 2 of 2)
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by The Sensei of The Syndicate Report
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Released November 30th, 1988
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