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Security Problems in the Phone Systems
From: mea culpa <jericho () DIMENSIONAL COM>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:02:00 -0600
From: "James J. Capone" <james () ptm com> http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/cybercrime/chaostheory/story/0,3700,2376868,00.html <--SNIP--> Phone companies lack incentive to patch security holes. By Kevin Poulsen October 20, 1999 Telephone company negligence has allowed banks to be robbed, credit reports to be raided, and communities to be stripped of dial tones. What are you going to do, switch to a competitor? Whenever I'm forced to confess my misspent youth as a phone hacker, the response is invariably something like, "Oh, you were getting free phone calls?" The reality is, the telephone network underlies virtually every other wide-area network. ISN is sponsored by Security-Focus.COM
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