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- Bell Trashing
- By: The Dragyn
- The Police Station
- 612-934-4880
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- The Phone Co. will go to extreams on occasions. In fact, unless you really
- know what to expect from them, they will suprise the heck out of you with their
- "unpublished tarriffs". Recently, a situation was brought to my attention that
- up till then I had been totaly unaware of, least to mention, had any concern
- about. It involved gar- bage! The phone co. will go as far as to prosecute
- anyone who rumages through their garbage and helps himself to some.
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- Of course, they have their reasons for this, and no doubt benefit from such
- action. But, why should they be so picky about garbage? The answer soon
- became clear to me: those huge metal bins are filled up with more than waste
- old food and refuse... Although it is Pacific Tele. policy to recycle paper
- waste pro ducts, sometimes employees do overlook this sacred operation when sor
- ting the garbage. Thus top-secret confidential Phone Co. records go to the
- garbage bins instead of the paper shredders. Since it is constantly being
- updated with "company memorandums, and supplied with extensive reference
- material, the Phone co. must continualy dispose of the outdated materials.
- Some phone companies are supplied each year with the complete "System
- Practices" guide. This publication is an over 40 foot long library of
- reference material about everything to do with telephones. As the new edition
- arrives each year, the old version of "System Practices" must also be thrown
- out.
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- I very quickly figured out where some local phone phreaks were getting their
- material. They crawl into the garbage bins and remove selected items that are
- of particular i nterest to them and their fellow phreaks. One phone phreak in
- the Los Angeles area has salvaged the complete 1972 edition of "Bell System
- Practices". It is so large and was out of order (the binders had been removed)
- that it took him over a year to sort it out and create enough shelving for it
- in his garage.
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- Much of this "Top Secret" information is so secret that most phone companies
- have no idea what is in their files. They have their hands full simply
- replacing everything each time a change in wording requires a new revision. It
- seems they waste more paper than they can read!
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- It took quite a while for Hollywood Cal traffic manager to figure out how all
- of the local phone phreaks constantly discovered the switchroom test numbers.
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- Whenever someone wanted to use the testboard, they found the local phone
- phreaks on the lines talking to all points all over the world. It got to the
- point where the local garbage buffs knew more about the office operations than
- the employees themselves. One phreak went so far as to call in and tell a
- switchman what his next daily assignment would be. This, however, proved to be
- too much. The switchman traced the call and one phone phreak was denied the
- tool of his trade.
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- In another rather humorous incident, a fellow phreak was rumaging through the
- trash bin when he heard someone approaching. He pressed up against the side of
- the bin and silently waited for the goodies to come. You can imagine his
- surprise when the garbage from the lunchroom landed on his head. Most people
- find evenings best for checking out their local telco trash piles. The only
- thing necessary is a flashlight and, in the case mentioned above, possibly a
- rain coat. A word of warning though, before you rush out and dive into the
- trash heap. It is probably illegal, but no matter where you live, you
- certainly won't get the local policeman to hold your flashlight for you.
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