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People in foreign countries will soon be able to have the benefits of our
famous 800 (toll free) numbers. In place of the 800 number, foreign callers
will dial 196. This will be followed by a unique prefix and the line number
from the company's domestic 800 service.
It would work like this: 196-NXX-XXXX. AT&T will bill and record all these
calls. This will give our overseas (and maybe Canada too) friends the
opportunity to take advantage of the US toll network.
Information Provided By Sally Ride:::Space Cadet (8/1/86)
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Mountain States Telephone and Pacific North West Bell are trialing work
stations to be used to allow operators to work from home via the personal
computer. Mountain States Telephone has over 100 people in various occupations
working from home now, while Pacific North West has just built one entire
operating office equipped with IBMs and have several employees working remotely
using the same technology.
Information Provided By Sally Ride:::Space Cadet (8/8/86)
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Supposedly, Bug Byter, Soft Jock, Street Urchin, the Bandit, the Gray Elf,
Sea-Saw, and Quick Zipper have all were busted on August 5, 1986. It has also
been reported that Street Urchin has to pay $7000 in restitution.
Information Provided By Silent Assault (8/8/86)
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A Commodore Hacker, Hackin Hank was busted for abusing MCI codes and had to pay
a $2000 phone bill. He was caught after a person he called was called by MCI
Investigations. This person got scared and told them everything he knew.
Information Provided By Red Baron (8/8/86)
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The following two phreaks were sentenced about 2 months prior to the date.
MOB RULES, who was busted for MF Scanning that he had done 2 years previous,
got 90 days in jail, 360 hours of community service, and 5 years probation.
Video Vance has been given a flat 90 days in jail for being caught with 11
cases of dynamite.
Information Provided By <S><C><A><N><M><A><N> (8/8/86)
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There is a bulletin board in Australia with many users interested in learning
to phreak and hack. They need experienced people to converse with. Tell the
sysop that you are calling from America. The number is 61-3-509-9611.
Information Provided By Mad Madness (8/14/86)
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Shadow Hawk 1 was busted for hacking two RSTSs in Chicago. They acquired all
of his printouts and disks with information on it. Info by Shadow Hawk 1.
(8/11/86)
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The Prophet, formally of the PhoneLine Phantoms, was recently contacted by
authorities for as yet unknown reasons. He has had his computer equipment
confiscated, but as of this writing he has not been formally charged. And to
clear up the rumor, I did not have anything to do with it.
Information Provided By Solid State (8/23/86)
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Some notes about Night Stalker's bust here, I haven't really talked much to him
because his phone line is bugged, I could tell that much from all of the clicks
that I heard after he had hung up while I was still on the line.
Some of the reasons that he may have been busted were that credit Card numbers
were frequently posted on The Underground and two months ago a member of the
Underground called the White House with a bomb threat and was later visited by
the U.S. Secret Service. They knew this person had used illegal extenders and
codes to make the call. They inquired to where he obtained them and he told
them all about The Underground.
He is currently under surveillance, the Secret Service thinks he is
transferring funds and have been following him and taking pictures, especially
when he visited his bank. That's about all I know...end of the investigation.
Information Provided By Night Stalker
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In the last week of July, Cyclone II mistakenly was playing with a local VAX
and became a bit careless with his methods. He was caught. You may have
noticed that he hasn't been calling around for quite awhile. He won't be until
this mess is cleared up, which should be in the near future.
His computer was confiscated, as well as all of his files, papers, notes, and
anything else the authorities could find that was illegal. He is laying low
and would prefer not to receive too many calls.
Information Provided by Cyclone II (8/4/86)
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For those of us that subscribe to Home Box Office (HBO), did any of you see the
HBO movie, Apology? Well the movie was based on fact and being that Apology
can be accessed from a phone line I feel that it could be considered as
possibly having something to do with phreaking. This Apology differs a little
from the movie, because with this one you can hear other people's Apology's as
well including the statements made from two phreaks in the Southern Bell area.
These two phone phreaks/hackers/credit carders/anarchists as they described
themselves apologized for all sorts of crimes including $200,000 phone bills to
their phone company, bomb threats to their school, and prank calls to Hong
Kong, Egypt, and London. One of the phreaks identified themselves as "The
Cop." Just thought you might be interested to know about it...-KL
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