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THE SYNDICATE REPORT
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Bell Information Transmittal No. 8
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Released November 24, 1986
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Featuring:
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Electronic Fraudulent Crackdowns (olt ccm 11\5)
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ISDN: A Primer Part III (eet 11\11)
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PicTel's 56-kbps 'PicturePhones' / Nynex (eet 11\11)
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by The Sensei
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ELECTRONIC FRAUDULENT CRACKDOWNS:
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In this article; brought forth will be assorted bits of electronic
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computer crime crackdowns, and other misc. fraudulent proceedings. Actual
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identification of the criminal people will not be presented; initials will
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instead be used. This is for sole protection of The Syndicate Report and
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the prosecuted people. (I definitely don't need to be charged for some
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newly processed law.)
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DP, 22 year old man, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., stands accused of American
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Express and MCI. Authorities say the man is charged with theft, possession of
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stolen property, avoiding payment of telephone property, "offenses against
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intellectual property and offenses against computer users." This is the
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second run-in with the law for the man from Fla. Last October he was accused
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of using his home computer to break into confidential computer files of
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Southern Bell Telephone Co., police said.
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RW, A Silicon Valley businessman, has been sentenced to pay a 40,000$ fine
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and serve a five-year suspended prison sentence for his part in diverting a
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shipment of computer equipment to the Soviet bloc in 1985. RW, and associate
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of a brokerage firm, pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate U.S. export laws
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by shipping a 196,000$ Digital Equipment Corp. computer and components from
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Haiti to Czechoslovakia in February 1985.
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JS, 43, of Encino, Calif., has told local polic he's received numerous
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death threats from alleged extortionists visiting his computer bulliten board.
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Forum administrator JS told LA authorities he received threats and demands for
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money in electronic messages posted posted on his BBS throughout August and
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early September. "We can still make you life unfit for living," said one of
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the messages, according to a report by United Press International.
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Police have arrested seven youths in the South Plainfield, N.J., area on
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charges they used their home computer to exchange stolen credit card numbers,
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swap information on how to make free long distance phone calls, and call coded
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phone numbers at the Pentagon. Middlex County Prosecutor AR also said the
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seven, all under the age of 18, had codes that would cause communications
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satellites to "change position," possibly interupting intercontinental
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communications, An AT&T spokesmans, however disputed that claim. The arrest
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of the seven represented the seventh major presecution under a one-year-old
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state computer crime law in New Jersey.
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KG, a 19-year-old New Jersey pre-law student who said he was "addicted"
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to online computer games, was placed on probation and ordered to make
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restitution to CompuServe after pleading guilty to stealingcredit to continue
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playing. Court officials said KG played MegaWars for free for about three
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months on illegally obtained credit card account numbers. KG got the numbers
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from carbon copies of receipts he retrieved from trash bins at a local
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shopping center.
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Three teen-agers have been arrested in Jacksonville, Fla., on charges they
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used credit card information stolen during an invasion of a TRW Corp. system
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in Cleveland. Eighteen-year-olds AP and MS (initials) could each face up to
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five years in prison and a 5,000$ fine if convicted. They are alleged to
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have used credit information stolen online from TRW to buy atleast 800$ in
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computer equipment.
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Florida State Sen. Edgar Dunn, in response to the events detailed in the
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previous story, has introduced a bill that would make credit card fraud via
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computer in that state subject to anti-racketeering laws. The measure would
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also tighten Florida's existing 1984 computer crime law to allow victems to
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recover three times their loss from computer crime as well as punitive damages,
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reports The Associated Press.
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Transcall America, an Atlanta-based discount long-distance telephone
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service, has uncovered crackers who ran up at least 12,000$ in illegal calls
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in five months. According to company officials, no one has been charged, but
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the FBI is investigating the case and could bring state and federal charges.
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The crackers were caught when investigators allowed a stolen access code,
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which was posted on a CoCoa Beach bulletin board, to remain valid. To bogus
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calls were traced to several homes in Brevard County, Fla.
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Crackers in at least three major cities have been blamed for a 60,000$
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phone bill that was sent to a California man whose stolen credit card number
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was apparently posted on an underground network of computer bulletin boards.
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Officials with GTE-Sprint Communications Corp. told the Associated Press that
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computer vandals in Atlantic, Blatimore and New York used the Sprint number of
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RB of Campbell, Calif., to charge more than 250,000 minutes of calls in two
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months, Sprint spokesman MF said "an investigation is under way" with law
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enforcment officials in the three East Coast cities and at least seven other
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cities. RB's (owner of Sprint code) mid-July bill ran 722 pages and listed
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17,311 calls. The total for 256,697 minutes on that bill came to 55,562.27$,
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non counting an 8,197$ "volume discount."
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Kaypro Inc.'s national director of sales and marketing, SE, has been
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sentenced to 30 months in prison for convictions related to a drug-smuggling
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conspiracy. Previously, the 27-year-old SE had pleaded guilty to a charge of
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conspiring to travel in interstate and foreign commerce in aid of racketeering
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and to a count of subscribing to a false tax return. Most of the things he
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has commited were done threw his personal computer.
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To summarize these crimes, The Syndicate Report would just like to
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advise computer criminals to reveiw the previous articles and make sure the
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same mistakes are not made.
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ISDN: A PRIMER PART III
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There has been so much progress over the last couple of years on
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developing standards for the various interfaces, that the transition to an
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all-ISDN network will take about half the time originally predicted.
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ISDN cautioned about many questions about technology, costs and
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pricing has yet to be resolved. Even so, it will be the end of the century
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or later before voice, data and images can be sent at the high speeds
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standardized by the CCITT's ISDN committees.
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Krueger, co-founder of Stanford Telecommunications Corp., spoke to more
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that 100 executives from Japanese electronics companies. The impact of ISDN
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will be positive for certain products and the death knell for others, Data--
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Quest predict. Once telecommunications lines are all digital, the now-booming
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modem market will tail off. Statistical multiplexors may also be a thing
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of the past, and data-only BPXs probably will become extinct. For packet
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switches, central digital switches and T-1 multiplexors, the future will
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become brighter. Terminal adapters, to transform non-ISDN telephones,
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connected to Centrex systems or PBXs, will provide market opportunities,
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Krueger said.
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One product which will quickly benefit in the Group IV facsimile. The
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clarity, speed and low cost of facsimile transmissions via an all digital
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network will be a boon to the next generation of fax machines. G-IV fax
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machines are now readily available but sales are languishing because of low--
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bandwidth phone lines and non-digital central switches.
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About 17 percent of all phone lines are serviced by digital central
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switches. Because nearly all new switches in-stalled now are digital--simply
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because that is the cheapest way to make a central switch--About half of all
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phone lines will be served by digital switches by 1990. By then, offices
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wired for digital transmissions will be able to send G-IV faxes to other
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offices with digital networks.
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PICTEL'S 56-KBPS 'PICTUREPHONES' - NYNEX:
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A Massachusetts startup specializing in video-compression technologies
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has scored big with its first release of "picturephones," and won a vote
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of confidence from one of the biggest network operators, Nynex Corp.
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For PicTel Corp. (Peabody, Mass.), the recent success is part of a
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pattern that began two years ago when two engineers developed a proprietary
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codec that allowed the construction of a videotelephone that didn't require
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the use of extremely high transmission speeds. For the much antivipated
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videoconferencing business, it was the microcomputer.
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Because of PicTel phones operate at speeds of 56 kbits per second
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(instead of traditional 1.544 Mbits per second known as T-1 speeds), the
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devices can be plugged into digital switches already installed by telephone
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companies in a growing number of offices. That's one reason why Nynex
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Business Information Systems is interested in the technology and has started
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to market PicTel phones to business customers.
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Since formally releasing the system in October, PicTel has reported
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500,000$ in orders for the first telephone system, which costs as much as
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100,000$. There's also a growing order backlog which could augur well for
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future company prospects.
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With the shipment of its first products, the increasing digitalization
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of the nation's telephone offices and the expectations of the ISDN, PicTel's
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prospects should be favourable. To date, its principal competitors, such as
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General Electric Co. plc of Britian and Compression Labs Inc. (San Jose, CA)
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offer picture phones that require an expensive videoconferencing room and T-1
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lines to handle the breakdown, transmission and reconstruction of video
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images.
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If there is any question to the information in this file, contact the
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author. Now can be found on the Private Sector 20 Meg, 3/1200 baud
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system at (201) 366-4431 (2600 Magazine Bulliten Board).
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This concludes this transmittal No. 8 presented by:
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The Sensei - The Syndicate Report
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Released November 24, 1986
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