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--=] National Security Anarchists [=-- --=] Volume I, Issue ]I[ [=-- --=] Date Released: 07/01/91 [=-- == NSA Editorial == Welcome to National Security Anarchists Newsletter #3. We have heard many great responses from the so-called H/P wastelands. Yes, so barren, but there still exists a few intelligent minds left. While the rest of H/P world continues to jerk themselves off with codes, scans, and old issues of Phrack. One could can be developing their H/P skills even more by just doing Hacker Basic. Hacker Basic? No, not a programming language. But the ability to READ! Yes, what most of America teenagers cannot do today, but yet excel greatly in their current career, Stupidity. Reading allows you to expand your ideas and concepts. Sure read old information, but what do you do after that? Most of you just sit around, praising Phrack & LOD/H. These guys are dead and gone! Sure, remember them and remember them well. But you cannot live in the past, for while you sit on your ass, Ma Bell can then destroy you, destroy the whole concept of the H/P world. What do you choose? ___ Your Editor ___ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents Section Subjects -------- ----------------------------------------------------- 3.0 NSA Editorial 3.1 Table of Contents % 3.2 GTD-5 SVR 1711 Features % 3.3 High Speed Networks % 3.4 Statistical Methods in Reliability 3.5 BellCore Current Publications Release 3.6 NSA World News 3.7 Telco Briefs 3.8 NSA Information % - If you are not an authorized USWest/GTE/AT&T/MCI/SPRINT Employee, you are not permitted to read this information. To do so, is a violation of Federal Law. Imprisonment & fines will be issued. Please Send Checks & Letter Bombs to P.O. 666, Washington D.C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --=] National Security Anarchists [=-- --=] Volume I, Issue ]I[ [=-- --=] Presents [=-- == GTD-5 SVR 1711 Features == CALL GAPPING FOR LOCAL CODES Allows control of incoming trunk-to-line calls only, line-to-line calls only, or control of both at different gap intervals - defined as control of traffic categories. The number of simultaneous code controls (destination and local) are increased from 64 to 256. Controls calls to terminating codes for the following: o Any subscriber line o Hunt group pilot number o Attendant group listed directory number(s) o 10-digit directory number in a subtending PBX Gap intervals settable for: 0(no control), 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10 ,15, 30, 60, 120, 300, and 600 seconds. An infinite interval is also available. DEFINE "VIA" ROUTES BY TRUNK GROUP NUMBER Allows the Network Manager to engineer each site for associated traffic types to route index in terms of route index pair relationships for reroute controls. This provides the capability to specify the reroute as a "from" TGN and a "to" (VIA) TGN without having to recall complex routing chains and routing index information. RATE INTERVALS FOR NSM CONTROLS Provides the option of designating the amount of traffic controlled by rate (time) interval for the following NSM route controls: o Cancel-To o Cancel-From o Skip Route o Spray Reroute o Spray Immediate Reroute o Selective Trunk Reservation Selectable intervals for each traffic type: 1-60 seconds in 1 second increments, 120, 300, and 600 seconds. An infinite interval is also available as well as 2 calls per second for intervals less than 1 second. SPRAY ROUTE CONTROLS Reroute controls will be modified from the existing eight pairs of from/to routes to eight sets of from/to routes. A set of from/to routes consists of one traffic donor (from) route and up to seven out-of-chain "VIA" (to) routes accessed with a spray hunt technique. The spray hunt technique diveds the rerouted traffic evenly among the out-of-chain trunk groups through a rotation scheme. The reroute control will permit the option to define the traffic donor (from) and "VIA" (to) routes by trunk group numbers. SS7 BASED NON-ISDN VOICE MESSAGE WAITING INDICATION CONTROL Extension of the SVR 1641 Voice messaging feature using a SS7 network based, ANSI standard, messaging system. The GTD-5 will receive SS7 requests from a Voice Message Storage and Retrieval System (VMSR) to activate or deactivate a Voice Waiting Indicator (MWI) for a subscriber. The GTD-5 will update the subscriber's MWI and return a successful or failure response via SS7 to VMSR. This feature does not impact the existing in-band VMSR capabilities. An individual GTD-5 site may have only in-band or only SS7 or both capabilities. This feature provides the GTD-5 with capability to support up to 127 different VMSR systems. INTERNATIONAL STANDARD FOR 15 DIGITAL DIALING (CCITT E.164) The GTD-5 can presently handle 15 dialed digits for digit translation screening and call routing functions. GTE AMA record formats will be modified to account for 15 digital international numbers as specified in CCITT E.164 recommendations. Bellcore LSSGR AMA specifications have not been issued for 15 digit international records and will not be included in this SVR. CALL WAITING/CALL FORWARDING BUSY INTEGRATION Currently, Call Waiting overrides Call Forwarding Busy. Customer in focus groups who have both Personal Secretary (VMSR) and Call Waiting have requested the ability to have calls forwarded to their Call Waiting feature while they are receiving a call. This feature enhancement will facilitate the ability to see Call Waiting and Voice Mail services together. This is a changed feature interaction. No new classmarks are involved. All subscribers with both features active will get this new interaction. For a terminating party disconnect with call waiting situation, the terminator will be rung for custom calling as in current treatment. During custom call rering, call forwarding will be attempted at the end of the original call forwarding don't answer timeout. CUSTOMER CONTROLLABLE RINGING INTERVAL FOR CALL FORWARD DON'T ANSWER This feature allows the customer who subscribes to Call Forwarding Don't Answer the ability to control the number of rings (1-9) before the call is forwarded. The type of ringing provided for a call will not be affected by this feature. AUDIBLE MESSAGE WAITING INDICATION VIA PERIODIC RINGING BURSTS With the exception of customers served by featurephones, Message Waiting Indication is currently provided on via stutter dial tone. As an option this feature would provide a double ring (0.5 seconds on, 0.5 seconds off, 0.5 seconds on) to indicate a waiting message. The first double ring would occur within 5 minutes of receiving a message and would be repeated every 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes as selected by a Recent Change command. The customer controls this feature's activation/deactivation similar to Call Forwarding Variable. This feature will not be given to a line with the Do Not Disturb Feature activated. ANONYMOUS CALLER REJECTION This feature is a variation of the CLASS Selective Call Rejection feature. CLASS Anonymous Caller Rejection prevents termination of anonymous calls (Calling Number Delivery Blocked) to a CLASS customer's line by routing these calls to a special announcement which informs the caller that they may complete a call to this subscriber if they allow their calling number to be delivered. TERMINATING END OFFICE SCANNING ALLOWED (TR-TSY-000215 3.5.8) This feature allows the GTD-5 to be compatible with TR-TSY-000215, Issue 1, Sept. 88. The parameter as defined in the referenced TR is used to control whether an office will request termination scanning as the initial choice of originating scanning for outgoing Automatic Callback/Automatic recall (AC/AR) requests. The current GTD-5 design interprets this parameter to apply to inbound terminating scanning AC/AR requests. With both parameters defined in the GTD-5, GTE may enforce originating or terminating scanning on outbound requests and also force other offices to use originating scanning rather than terminating scanning. AC/AR FEATURE TIME RANGES (TR-TSY-000215 AND 227) This feature allows the GTD-5 to be compatible with the latest TR's. The following timers will be modified: o T1 Originating Scanning Rate = 10 - 120 seconds (60 seconds recommended) o T2 Wait Between Unanswered Special Ringing Attempts = 1-12 minutes (4 minutes recommended-maximum number of unanswered special rings is 15) o T8 Resume Term Scanning to Same Line Timing = 17 (2 ringing cycles) - 60 seconds (35 seconds-5 ringing cycles is recommended) o T10 Maximum Time Callback remains Queued = 3-4 hours COT-IDENTIFICATION CALL WAITING INDICATION IN PRINTOUT This is an enhancement to the Customer Originated Trace feature to provide a printout that will indicate that the last answered call was a Call Waiting call. SCREEN LIST EDITING CHANGES This is an enhancement to allow the following CLASS Screen List Editing options: o Allow code for deleting all entries o Allow code for deleting all private entries o Allow last answered number to be added to any screening list o New treatment of entry with private mark when entered as public AC/AR REQUESTS TO HGRP PILOT NUMBERS This allows the GTD-5 to be compatible with the appropriate TR's by queuing calls placed via AC/AR if all members of a hunt group are busy and immediately completing AC/AR calls if any member is idle. AC/AR INTERACTION WITH CALL WAITING The GTD-5 currently will queue an AC/AR request to a line with call waiting when the line is busy with one call. This feature will not queue the call but go to immediate processing and the terminating line will receive a call waiting tone. 914E WILTRON CABLE ANALYZER SHARING Siemens Transmission Systems has developed a feature on the 914E MXU which allows sharing of one Wiltron Cable Analyzer (MCA) among up to 5 MXU units in the same cabinet. the GTD-5 MXU software will be modified to allow up to 16 i14E MXU's to share the same MCA. The MCA cannot be shared between Direct Interfaced MXU's and COT Interfaced MXU's. PERFORM SHORT % WAIT(S) WITHOUT ALLOCATING A BUFFER Timeout buffers will no longer be used for short waits, under 5 slices/50 milliseconds. This will save real time and reduce buffer pool fragmentation caused by short waits. SPEED UP BUFFER ALLOCATION SEARCH LOOP With the removal of sequence buffers from the buffer pool, buffer pool fragmentation has become less of a problem. Now with less fragmentation, processor real time in the APC will be saved by adopting a buffer allocation method similar to non-APC processors, which reduces time spent in the allocation search loop. In addition, real time will also be saved during buffer de-allocation by releasing multiple buffers at one time using a new "flush buffers" function. OUTGOING TRUNKS CALL CUTOFF ENHANCEMENT On a line-to-trunk call, there are occasions where a "hangup" from the outgoing trunk is caused by a network problem. This feature provides a SMA printout for the Telco to identify the specific trunk group, trunk, carrier ID, calling and called numbers as well as the calculated interval of cutoff elapsed time. This feature only applies to calls where called party hangup does not release the call (e.g. called party timed released. MEASUREMENT CALLING/BILLING NUMBER DELIVERS TO CUSTOMER LINE This feature modifies GTD-5 implementation to be compliant with LSSGR AMA format (TR-TSY-000031, Issue 3, Jan. 90) for usage sensitive billing and AMA format for the calling number delivery (CAD) feature. This feature is applicable to any line (directory number) assigned the Calling Number Delivery or Calling Number Display features. Billing will no longer be based on activation/deactivation of these features. A Usage-Sensitive CAD is assigned to a DN via a service order. The count of DNs delivered will not be applicable for intragroup calls. Up to 65,000 lines can be assigned usage-sensitive CAD. Each DN assigned the Usage-Sensitive CAD feature will have two AMA counts with a maximum value of each counter of 32,767: o Count of DNs delivered o Count of private and out-of-area indicators delivered An AMA record will be generated once every 24 hours of each DN with non-zero counts. An AMA record will be generated immediately if a particular counter reaches 32,000. If all counters are zero, or no lines in the CO have the feature assigned, a single record is produced to indicate the task executed correctly. FLIP CMD ON RSNW DOES NOT WORK This feature extends the Base Unit capability of a "simplex-to-simplex switch", the ability to change from a simplex 0 configuration to a simplex 1 configuration (or vice versa) without an intervening duplex stage, to a Remote Unit Network. This capability is useful during retrofit intervals and repair of faults where the system was not able to correctly isolate the faulty copy. MXU OUTAGE TIME REDUCTION This feature reduces the software loading time for multiple MXU processors loads. A broadcast mechanism will be used to transport fewer messages between the APC and the outermost superordinate processor (TCU or RSU). This feature will be transparent to the craftsperson and is estimated to result in 4% reduction in APC real time per MXU. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --=] National Security Anarchists [=-- --=] Volume I, Issue ]I[ [=-- --=] Presents [=-- == High Speed Networks == == GTE Project 434 == With the move to higher speed networks, many fundamental issues in control and design of networks need to be examined afresh. This project has attempted to address critical architectural issues to ensure that all aspects of these emerging high-speed technologies reflect the needs of GTE's future high-bandwidth services. The feasibility of transporting motion video over an ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) network was investigated for Telops, with a major report provided (jointly with Project 552) on the feasibility of end-to-end ATM for a number of video services. Through experiments, it was demonstrated that performance improves when the cell transmissions from each video source are smoothed at least on a per frame basis; this removes constraints on the synchronization of the frames across video sequences sharing the same network resources. It was shown that for uncorrelated sources, a network utilization of 0.8 is achievable with minimal cell loss (0.5 for correlated sources). For congestion control at the call level, a histogram-based traffic descriptor and call admission policy was proposed. Technical assessments were carried out for Telops on the technical feasibility and complexity of providing (1) remote LAN interconnection service using the Metropolitan Area Network standard, DQDB, and DQDB-based SMDS (Switched Multimegabit Data Service), and (2) interactive video communication services over a DQDB network. The first study found that whereas SMDS exploits many advantages of DQDB, the lack of reconfiguration capability of the Open Bus access DQDB is a serious concern; it was proposed that where reliability is critical, the Looped Bus topology be provided as an option. the second study concluded that since neither of the non-Isochronous service capabilities supports bandwidth reservation, it is necessary to employ the Isochronous service capability -- which provides circuit-like transport -- to guarantee quality of service for all real-time video services. This project also contributed to the ACORN project on lightwave networks at Columbia University. ACORN has industry-wide participation and is investigating fully optical networks: stations have tunable transmitters and receivers, and are connected by a passive optical medium. A fundamental problem associated with connection establishment on a packet by packet basis was investigated in collaboration with staff at Columbia University and BNR. A new hybrid time division multiplexing scheme was proposed and analyzed. As part of system design of the advanced intelligent network (AIN) testbed, a number of performance/architectural studies were carried out. In particular, the performance impact of introducing AIN service on the GTD-5 and the PAP (a pre-adjunct-processor in the AIN testbed) was analyzed, using a network of queues model. Preliminary results indicate that for 20% AIN penetration, system performance is only marginally affected, and an effective bandwidth of 1 to 2 Mb/s is sufficient for the switch-adjunct interface. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --=] National Security Anarchists [=-- --=] Volume I, Issue ]I[ [=-- --=] Presents [=-- == Statistical Methods in Reliability == == GTE Project 421 == The objective of this project was to develop tools applicable to understanding and assessing the reliability of elements of telecommunications systems. Research problems in statistical inference and reliability modeling related to the nature of data obtainable from specific activities or systems used in telephone operations were addressed. Software previously delivered to Telephone Operations for monitoring the speed of answer objective in customer contact offices was enhanced. It execute statistical tests to determine whether performance is as expected after each 15-minute period and to identify some possible causes for poor performance. The enhanced version completed execution for large numbers of incoming calls in 15 min. Additionally, in support of force management, it was determined that the software currently used in other customer contact offices to generate capacity tables contains some errors. The project team delivered the rewritten software, but did not test to determine whether the model is valid. Simulation studies indicated that there are significant differences in the number of service representatives required when the model's service time distribution is invalid. Techniques were outlined for analyzing data provided by the Rockwell-Collins Agent Information Reports to make inferences regarding customers' speed of answer tolerance. Evaluation of AT&T's bill verification system was completed. A sampling scheme, statistical analyses, and graphics are used by AT&T to verify access billing by the LECs. The system was reviewed, and formulae were derived and verified. the system was found to use statistically correct methodology and to be objective, favoring neither AT&T nor GTE. The critique of AT&T's methodology gave GTE managers in Pricing Policy and IXC Services and understanding of the technical details and the information necessary to negotiate with AT&T effectively. A proposal was made to replace the use of trouble per hundred lines by an estimate of service availability for assessing the quality of telephone service. Collaborating with scientists in the Components Technology Laboratory, the project staff prepared a paper that details the lack of mathematical and statistical rigor in the existing laser diode reliability literature and discusses statistical properties and some aspects of reliability modeling pertinent to laser diodes. Templates to be used by all users of the Software through Pictures to print out details of the Process Integration and Automation information model were made, and a program to construct the tree structure of inheritance relationships in the database was written. In the more basic statistics research activities, a paper on functions of arrangement-increasing partial ordering was submitted for publication, and a book on parameter estimation in reliability and life span models was reviewed. Papers on Laplace ordering and its reliability applications and on a piecewise exponential estimator for the survivor function were accepted for publication. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --=] National Security Anarchists [=-- --=] Volume I, Issue ]I[ [=-- --=] Presents [=-- == BellCore == == Latest Releases == == Technical/Special Reports/Generic Requirement == The following documents were recently published by Bellcore. =========================================== BellCore New Technical Reference Releases =========================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR-FAD-000069 Comptrollers' Automatic Message Accounting Format Issue 2, December 1990 Description (CAFD) Revision 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document presents BellCore's view of the proposed guidelines to format and process Automatic Message Accounting (AMA) data. It includes comptroller-oriented descriptions and supporting information on formatting, as well as the initial Customer Record Information System processing of AMA data recorded by switching systems and special AMA systems. Volumes ]I[ through VI of this six-volume set have been revised to update detailed descriptions of all call records generated under Bellcore AMA format requirements. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR-NWT-000452 Generic Requirements for Public Telephone Handsets Issue 2, December 1990 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document presents Bellcore's view of proposed general, mechanical, electrical, and environmental criteria for Public Telephone Handsets. It also contains objectives for their design, operational characteristics, and recommended test methods to compare these products with the stated criteria. This issue replaces TR-TSY-000452, Issue 1, August 1987. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR-NWT-000917 SONET Regenerator (SONET RGTR) Equipment Generic Issue 1, December 1990 Criteria ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document presents Bellcore's view of the proposed generic requirements for Synchronous Optical Network Regenerator (SONET RGTR) equipment. It describes SONET RGTR functions and applications, details network compatibility requirements, lists SONET RGTR operations criteria, and sets forth power, environmental, and reliability requirements. this document is a module of Transport Systems Generic Requirements (TSGR), TR-TSY-000440. This Technical Reference replaces TA-TSY-000917, Issue 2, March 1990. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR-NWT-000930 Generic Requirements for Hybrid Microcircuits Used Issue 1, December 1990 in Telecommunications Equipment ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document outlines Bellcore's view of a minimum set of common practices and tests necessary to help assure the quality and reliability of hybrid microcircuits. It includes requirements for materials, fil circuitry, and applied components as well as qualification procedures for finished hybrids. This Technical Reference replaces TA-TSY-000930, Issue 1, February 1989. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR-NWT-000960 Common Generic Requirements for Channel Switching Issue 1, December 1990 in ISDN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document presents Bellcore's view of proposed generic requirements for channel switching in the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) that support private line services, also referred to as channel switched services. Included are the definition of a switch complex as well as requirements for switch complex interface, access, interoffice transport, and operations. This Technical Reference replaces TA-TSY-000960, Issue 2, November 1989. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR-NWT-001024 Operator Services Systems Generic Requirements Issue 1, December 1990 (OSSGR) Revision on Intercept Services. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document defines Bellcore's view of proposed revisions to the intercept requirements currently contained in the OSSGR. It includes the following new intercept service options: customized announcements, automated split referral, intercept call completion, and multiple entry announcements/referrals. The information contained expands the intercept database architectures and address areas where automation (dual-tone multifrequency and voice recognition) are appropriate. There are significant changes to the two-stage signaling scheme for intercept call completion call, and the generation of two AMA records: one records the intercept service information; the other records the call completion information. This document replaces TA-TSY-001024, Issue 1, March 1990. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================== BellCore New Special Report Releases ====================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SR-NWT-000821 Field Reliability Performance Study Handbook Issue 3, December 1990 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document presents Bellcore's view of generic guidelines for conducting Field Reliability Performance Studies (FRPSs). An FRPS is a formal, detailed study of the inservices reliability performance of a product. The study is conducted to identify items that should be considered for corrective action by the manufacturer or user to improve product quality. This handbook describes several approaches for conducting an FRPS. While it is primarily intended for Bellcore Client Companies who conduct their own studies, many of the principles presented are applicable to any FRPS administered by Bellcore or telecommunications equipment suppliers. This issue replaces SR-TSY-000821, Issue 2, September 1989. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SR-STS-000307 Industry Support Interface - NC/NCI* Code Issue 2, December 1990 Dictionary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document update the information that has been compiled to identify NC requirements and interface specifications for services described in LATA access tariffs. This issue replaces SR-ISD-000307, Issue 1, March 1988. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SR-STS-001793 ITS-ISDN and Test System Controller TL1 Issue 1, January 1991 Command-Response Interface Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document describes the Operations System (OS) and network element interface elements required to support testing Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Basic Rate Access (BRA) circuits when the testing OS is the Integrated Testing System for ISDN (ITS-ISDN). ITS-ISDN is a Bellcore-developed and supported software system that performs that data analysis and processing to identify ISDN-BRA digital subscriber line trouble. This Special Report is intended to clarify the interface between ITS-ISDN and network element(s), but does not eliminate the need for compatibility testing. It supports ITS-ISDN compatibility testing. It supports ITS-ISDN Version 3.0 only, identifies pending changes to existing versions of Technical References and Advisories (TRs & TAs), and describes ITS-ISDN specific options that differ from or augment requirements in existing versions of TRs and TAs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR-TSV-000800 Network Systems Generic Requirements (NSGR) Issue 3, September 1989 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Categorizes proposed generic requirements into five fields of technology: switching, transport, operations, reliability and quality, and common and miscellaneous. Every document listing is cross-referenced to the Directory's major section. Included are abstracts describing the contents of each document. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================== BellCore's New Generic Requirements Releases ============================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR-TSY-000084 LATA SWITCHING Systems Generic Requirements (LSSGR) Issue 2, July 1987 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bellcore's view of proposed generic requirements for switching systems to meet the needs of a typical divested Bell Operating Company (BOC). Describes the features and functions of a switching system by defining it interactions with customer equipment, telephone company personnel, the physical environment, the electrical environment, other interconnecting switching systems, and operations system.s Requirements described apply to digital and analog switching systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR-TSY-000301 Public Packet-Switched Network Generic Requirements Issue 2, December 1988 (PPSNGR) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bellcore's view of proposed generic requirements for a Public Packet-Switched Network (PPSN). Serves as a guide for Bellcore's design and implementations analyses of packet networks and their component systems. Describes the features and functions of a PPSN, and at the interface between a PPSN and other networks. Also address is the need to maintain compatibility among new and existing equipment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR-TSY-000439 Operations Technology Generic Requirements (OTGR) Issue 2, February 1988 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Provides an integrated picture of Bellcore's view of proposed generic network operations requirements, functions, and generic operations interfaces for a typical divested Bell Operating Company (BOC). Includes information on network equipment to support such network operations as remote provision and in-service performance monitoring of network services. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR-TSY-000440 Transport Systems Generic Requirements (TSGR) Issue 3, October 1989 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bellcore's view of proposed generic requirements applicable to a wide variety of digital transport systems that have the same functions independent of the environment in which the transport is deployed and the service it supports. Document serves as a guide for the analysis of new digital transport systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR-TSY-000796 Reliability and Quality Generic Requirements (RQGR) Issue 2, August 1989 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bellcore's view of proposed Reliability and Quality Generic Requirements (RQGR) has been extensively revised and is now available. If you design, develop, manufacture, install, or perform field monitoring activities for telecommunications equipment, these major information sources can provide you with up-to-date and easily accessible information. The RQGR is packed into four-volume sets. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --=] National Security Anarchists [=-- --=] Volume I, Issue ]I[ [=-- --=] Presents [=-- --=] World News [=-- Welcome to NSA World News, yes more news about national happenings. Ok, you lazy assholes, since you call yourself hackers and still cannot pick up a newspaper, here we'll do it for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------- == Computer Woes Wrack Phones in East, California == -------------------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON -- Service disruptions blamed on computer software plagued millions of telephones in the nation's capital and three nearby states Wednesday, and much of California had similar problems. Private homes and business bore the brunt of the disruptions in Washington. Bell Atlantic said 6.7 million phone lines in Washington, Maryland, Virginia and parts of West Virginia were hit with disruptions. Most service was restored by Wednesday evening. A software glitch disrupted Pacific Bell service in the Los Angeles area at midday Wednesday, interfering with phone calls in much of the 213, 818, 714, and 805 area codes. Most service was restored by midafternoon. -------------------------------------------- == Journal: Pot May Help Night Vision == -------------------------------------------- LONDON -- Marijuana may help people see in the dark, according to a letter in the scientific journal Nature. "Jamaican fishermen, it seems, have an uncanny ability to see in the dark, and cannabis is the magic ingredient," said M.E. West of the University of the West Indies. Most Jamaican fishermen smoke marijuana or drink an alcoholic beverage made from the stems and leaves of the plant, he said. West said he began conducting research after joining a nighttime fishing expedition. He was amazed at how the crew navigated without lights because he could see nothing. [Editor Note: It is Advised to smoke great amounts not due to Night Vision] ------------------------------------- == Caller ID Bills Gain Ground == ------------------------------------- Bills mandating per-call blocking for caller ID are advancing rapidly through both houses of Congress. Thursday, the caller ID bills were studied and changed--or "marked-up" in legislative parlance--by Senate and House subcommittees. The next step will be further mark-ups by the parent committees before the bills are sent to the full houses for votes. Both bills would require all local exchange carriers to offer free per-call blocking. But the House bill would apply blocking to names and address. Congressional staffers say both bills are expected to be modified further in the parent committees and possibly on the floors of both congressional bodies before final passage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --=] National Security Anarchists [=-- --=] Volume I, Issue ]I[ [=-- --=] Presents [=-- --=] Telco Briefs [=-- Doesn't the advancement of various teleco companies just piss you off? Remember the days when you could blue box safely, fuck you were never around then were you? Remember the days when they were no such things as codes, all you had to do was scan for dial tones. Wouldn't it be fun, once again for Hackers/Phreaks to upset the Ma Bell cart, just to see the apples to go a rolling again? Well, it depends on you... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- == Mobile Phone Test Sought == == AT&T News == ---------------------------------- American Telephone & Telegraph has asked federal regulators for permission to test a system of "personal" mobile phone that could be used at home and on the street, and relieve crowding on the cellular and regular mobile radio frequencies. If the Federal Communications Commission allowed the test, AT&T said it would spend three years developing the system, which would allow customers to use the same phone and number wherever they went within a metropolitan area. AT&T is in the "very early stages" of developing the system. -------------------------------------------------------------- == Official Capital Management Tool Enters the JETS Age == == USWest Profit News == -------------------------------------------------------------- Job Expenditure Tracking System (JETS) is a new engineering project management system that will become USWC's official capital management tool in July. JETS replaces certain job authorization processes in DOPAC, as well as the budgeting functions of the Construction Activity Management Information System (CAMIS) and joins several interelated accounting and capital spending functions. JETS is designed to work for its users, bringing faster, more efficient tracking of annual budgets, expenditures and administrative information for capital budget management, while it tracks capital and related maintenance dollars and dates for all classes of plant equipment. JETS will accomplish this while allowing its users to track forecasted, authorized and actual capital dollars by job -- all within a single system. As an important market unit resource, JETS will allow more complete tracking of expenditures related to products and services. System users will have direct responsibility, following conversion to JETS, for the construction expenditure portion of the corporate books, rather than Accounting or other supported personnel. JETS also moves several other functions currently done in Accounting back to the users. ---------------------------------------------------- == Pay-Phone Competitors say USWest is Unfair == ---------------------------------------------------- USWest Communications treats pay-phone competitors unfairly, an association of pay-phone businesses charges in complaint filed Wednesday with state and federal regulators. The Arizona Payphone Association, a group of 30 companies, complained to the state Corporation Commission and the Federal Communications Commission. USWest competes with other companies to install pay telephones at business locations where the phones are used. The association accuses USWest of unfair competition by charging excessive fees for access to the local phone network that USWest controls, and by offering its own pay-phone service at cut-rate prices. USWest has about 20,000 pay phones in Arizona and competitors have about 4,000, the association says. "We are fed up with USWest using its monopoly... to create an unfair competitive advantage," association President Patrick Kerivan said. USWest Communications spokesman Tony Seese-Bieda said that the company's practices are not unfair, and that rates for its pay phones and rates for services to other pay-phone companies have been reviewed and approved by regulators. ----------------------------------------- == PAC Bell First BOC to Offer PRI == ----------------------------------------- Pacific Bell has announced a new PRI-based ISDN service, and is the first Bell operating company to do so. The company is calling the new service PRI IS (Integrated Systems) and provides it in two basic flavors: 23B+D and 24B. The service includes an array of standard and optional features. Standard features include unlimited intracustomer caller telephone number delivery and percall service selection. Options include B-channel packet switching and private-facility connection. Initially, the service will debut in two cities, San Francisco and Los Angeles, with other service "according to demand. PAC Bell says it expects the greatest demand for the new service to services as WATS, 800, foreign, exchange, and private lines, or that want to use it as a means of interconnecting local area network. Prices for both the 23B+D and 24B packages are $1500 for installation and $545 per month. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --=] National Security Anarchists [=-- --=] Fast Breaking News [=-- Well we decided to put this little information in. The following people are affiliated with the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Please handle the following people with your best care. Make sure that you give them the latest, k00lest /<rad k0dez. -- Federal Agent Hit List -- ------------------------ Alpha Flamingo By the way, these dudes are no way suspected of being feds, they are known to be Feds. 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