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15-JUN-89 China Phone Jamming Attempted
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From Cheshire Catalyst
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Some Chinese students in the United States are trying
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to tie up Chinese government telephone lines set up for informants in hopes of
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blocking Beijing residents from turning in pro-democracy demonstrators.
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The students are paying for the calls with their own money and with funds
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raised in recent weeks to support the pro-democracy movement, which the Chinese
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government is trying to crush.
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One Stanford University student, who requested that his name not be used,
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said he called a Beijing hot line and spoke with an operator for 20 minutes.
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``I called and made up a lie about someone I wanted to report last night,''
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the student said Wednesday. ``We talked for about 10 minutes, then I told her
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it was a white lie, and we talked for another 10 minutes.
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``I told her that there were 3,000 people killed by soldiers, that I had seen
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pictures and knew this from the BBC, CBS, The New York Times and other
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newspapers,'' the student continued.
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``She said if I were Chinese I would have a conscience and believe my own
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government. I said if she were a real Chinese she would have a conscience and
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not report to the government on the students.''
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He said the operator paused, then hung up.
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A nationwide computer bulletin board used by Chinese university students in
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this country lists about a dozen Beijing hot lines that residents of the
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capital are supposed to use to report the whereabouts of known dissidents.
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The bulletin board also contains numerous suggestions on how to jam the
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lines, thereby keeping informants from being able to use them.
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``Some people have proposed that everyone call collect, or to call and
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let:it ring, then hang up,'' said Liu Dianding, a graduate student who has read
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the electronic mail at Stanford University.
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Students across the United Sates reportedly have raised tens of thousands of
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dollars in recent weeks to help support their country's pro-democracy movement.
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Stanford students say they have raised about $100,000.
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The students say they don't#[\ow if their calls are having much impact, but
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they remain determined.
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``If we change people's minds, little by little, then one billion people
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will know the truth,'' said Liu.
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Copyright 1989 Associated Press
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89Jun16 From EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN
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Those numbers, by the way are:
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011-86-1-512-5666
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011-86-1-443-292
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011-86-1-256-3483
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011-86-1-256-7220
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011-86-1-372-316
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011-86-1-664-215
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011-86-1-665-088
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011-86-1-371-554
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011-86-1-872-179
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011-86-1-873-814
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The Chinese students are attempting to tie up these numbers and cause chaos
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as much as possible. They particularly want to know if it's possible to do any
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more with our hacking knowledge. Any ideas????
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BTW, all of those numbers are presumed to be in Beijing, which, as indicated
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above uses city code 1. The country code is 86, also shown above.
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