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- Issue Number: 21
- Release Date: January 21, 1988
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- Nothing much to report at the moment. There is a new bulletin board where all
- the issues of TNS can be found. I'm sure many of you have heard of it:
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- Ripco International
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- (312) 528-5020
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- All the issues of TNS should be availiable there.
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- TITLE: AT&T to Buy Stake in Sun Microsystems
- FROM: New York Times
- DATE: January 7, 1988
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- by Andrew Pollack
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- SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6 - The American Telephone and Telegraph Company
- said today that it would acquire up to 20 percent of Sun Microsystems Inc. a
- fast-growing manufacturer of computer work stations for engineers and
- scientists.
- The agreement between the two companies allies the vast resources of
- AT&T., which has been struggling in computers, with the inventiveness of Sun,
- a plucky California company that has defied industry convention and is fast
- becoming one of the major companies in the computer business.
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- Challenging the Giants
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- Together, AT&T and Sun, which announced a cooperative technology
- development agreement in October, hope to create a major new camp in the
- computer industry that will challenge the two industry giants: the
- International Business Machines Corporation and the Digital Equipment Corporation.
- Under the agreement, Sun will sell AT&T a 15 percent stake consisting of
- newly issued shares at a price 25 percent above market value. The sales
- will occur over the next three years at a schedule to be determined by Sun,
- subject to certain deadlines. AT&T can buy the remaining 5 percent in the open
- market.
- At today's prices, AT&T's investment in Sun would ammount to about
- $300 million, the companies said. AT&T will also get a seat on Sun's board
- and will nominate Vittorio Cassoni, president of its data systems group, to
- fill it.
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- 1-900s: Still Under Fire
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- 1-900 services are still under fire by the media. The biggest problem is kids
- calling 1-900 chat lines and calling porn lines (of which many are 1-900s).
- In California, there are something like 470 different porn lines to call. Ma
- Bell has started to issue a service that would cancel out the service.
- Certain businesses (with large phone systems) have had their phone systems
- cancel out calls because so many employees have been calling the different
- call-in services. And then there are those kids who sit around on chat and
- porn lp the famous $1000 phone bills.
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- TITLE: Phone Credit Card Rings Up $5,430 Bill
- FROM: The Chicago Sun-Times
- DATE: January 18, 1988
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- By John Jeter
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- Jeffrey Zan and Donna Plybon have been seeing each other about six
- months and share all sorts of secrets, including her telephone credit card
- number.
- Apparently that secret got out, and they recently received her phone
- bill- 53 pages long with a total of $5,430.81 for calls from California
- to Qatar, from Elmhurst to Ethiopia.
- "How many phones are in Ethiopia, you know?" said an incredulous Zang,
- 21, of Wheeling. "We send these guys mega-food and they're talking on the
- telephone. I'm serious; this is really crazy."
- Zang, who works for a magazine sales company in Arlington Heights, is
- frequently on the road and follows the "phone first" advice. He regularly
- calls from area pay phones, using the AT&T Calling Card belonging to Plybon,
- 22, of Brookfield.
- On Nov. 23, Zang said, he made a call from an Elmhurst 7-Eleven to a
- client in Roselle, and he speculated that somebody in the store overheard
- his conversation.
- "What happened was, this guy got the phone number, hearing it from me,
- and he called his squeeze in Pakistan, and then he gave the number to all of
- his buddies all over the country, and it just became a chain letter the went
- on from [Dec. 7] all the way to [Dec. 19]," he said, naming the dates on the
- bill.
- Plybon received the bill Friday, and the two reported it to AT&T
- Saturday night- after a study in geography and international economics.
- The priciest call was an 84-minute chat from Elmhurst to Pakistan that
- cost $254. There were calls from Chicago to the United Arab Emirates,
- from Saratoga, Calif. to Norway, and to Somalia and Singapore.
- "AT&T is really freaking out," Zang said.
- "This is my first time of hearing of a bill that high," said Vicki
- McNair, an AT&T account representative at Parsippany, N.J.
- Zang and Plybon are "innocent until proven guilty, as it's always said.
- So they're not responsible until we get an investigation on it to see what
- really went on," she said.
- Ron Gaddy, an AT&T account specialist, said credit card fraud, a
- federal offense, requres investigations that take up to 30 days.
- Needless to say, the card has been cancelled, though Plybon and Zang's
- relationship hasn't because it's based on trust, the two said.
- "I was just letting him us it [the card] for his business because he's my
- boyfriend," Plybon said. "It's not like he's going to be calling Pakistan."
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- Just another case of AT&T Calling Card fraud. The AT&T account representative
- must have been pretty naive if she had never heard of a bill that high.
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- This bill was only $5,430. The record is around $300,000.
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- For more information on AT&T Calling Card Fraud see:
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- TNS Issue #6- Articn Kids are Too Dumb to Steal"
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- TNS Issue #9- Article: "A Call to Stop Long-Distance Scam"
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- Both of these articles from previous issues are about AT&T CC fraud. The
- situations are both similar to this one.
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- TITLE: AT&T Accuses G.S.A. of Helping Competitors
- FROM: The New York Times
- DATE: January 14, 1988
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- by Calvin Sims
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- The American Telephone and Telegraph Company yesterday formally accused
- officials of the General Services Administration of leaking sensitive
- information to its competitors, enabling them to win government telephone
- contracts at AT&T's expense.
- The Federal Government has been investigating allegations that agency
- officials gave AT&T's confidential bid information to competing companies in
- return for bribes and favors. AT&T has said that such information was used to
- outbid it on contracts to supply the government with computerized switching
- equipment worth about $55 million.
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- Before Issue #21 comes to an end, I would like to print out a table of
- contents for all the previous issues.
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- Tolmes News Service Issue #1
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- Introduction to TNS Magazine
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- Tolmes News Service Issue #2
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- Introduction to Issue #2
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- They Sure Can Talk in Raleigh
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- Teaching Computer Ethics in the Schools
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- Cash-Machine Magician
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- Cheaper Electronics Makes It a Snap to Snoop
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- Los Alamos Nuclear Facility Security Boost
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- Making Computers Snoop-Proof
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- War Against Phone Hacking Heats Up
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- Toll Fraud Trial Sets New Tone
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- Tolmes News Service Issue #4
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- Cellular Technology
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- Pirate BBS
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- Scanning Bust
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- Rip Offs
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- How the Soviets Are Bugging America
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- Deadly Bugs
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- The Newest Dating Game
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- Electronic Cryptography Report
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- Tolmes News Service Issue #6
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- HD Sentry: Hard Disk Protection from Trojan Horse Programs
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- Check This: Ma Bell is a Generous Soul
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- Sign In and then Sign On
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- How To Beat Phone Assault
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- Prisoner Phone Phreaks
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- Suburban Kids Are Too Dumb to Steal
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- Tolmes News Service Issue #7
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- Federal 5 for Cellular Phone Fraud in NYC
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- 18 Are Seized in Illegal Use of Mobile Telephones
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- Hello Anywhere
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- Keeping the Secrets Inside the Computer
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- Bugging
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- Urine Hot-Line
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- Innovation? Just Hold the Phone
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- Tolmes News Service Issue #9
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- The National Guards
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- The Caller That Isn't Long-Winded
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- A Call to Stop Long-Distance Scam
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- Online Junkies- Artificial Intelligence
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- Hacking Through NASA: A Threat- Or Only an Embarassment
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- The Bust of Shadow Hawk
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- Tolmes News Service Issue #11
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- Shadow Hawk's Bust: Continued from TNS Issue #10
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- US Sprint Sues "Ring" of Hackers for $20 Million
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- The Blue Box and Ma Bell
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- Capt. Zap: Informant?
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- Tolmes News Service Issue #14
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- 411: Life at Directory Assistance
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- The Max Headroom TV Pirate
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- Tolmes News Service Issue #16
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- The Celling of America
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- Tales That Do Not Compute
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- Responses to Issue #12's Article
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- Introduction: TNS QuickNotes
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- Tolmes News Service Issue #17
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- New Security Measures at ITT
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- Capt. Zap's Defense
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- Tolmes News Service Issue #18
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- 2600 Magazine's Official Bulletin Boards
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- Some Things about Phrack Inc.
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- Syndicate Report: Will It Return?
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- TNS QuickNotes
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- Tolmes News Service Issue #19
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- 'If You Need Help, Press 3'
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- Satellite Paging
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