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- Issue Number: 23
- Release Date: January 28, 1988
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- Well, not much has been going on. I've been busy and so has everyone else.
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- Let's go directly to this issue.
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- TITLE: Moves Taken to Restrict Dial-a-Porn
- FROM: New York Times
- DATE: January ??, 1988
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- Responding to public complaints, several telephone companies have taken
- steps that industry officials say are likely to inhibit the growth of telephone
- services that offer adult messages.
- According to telephone industry officials, the moves last week were the
- first significant effort to move toward restricting access to the services,
- which they call dial-a-porn.
- The companies making announcements last week were AT&T, US West, and
- Pacific Bell.
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- Charges on 900 Numbers
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- AT&T, the long distance carrier and the largest of the companies, said
- that it would no longer pay compensation to most sponsors of messages on
- its "pay-to-listen" service, known as Dial-it 900. Besides the adult message
- sponsors, a variety of companies use the service to take polls and offer
- informational services. Companies conducting polls through the service will
- still receive compensation, AT&T said.
- Numbers on the service begin with the area code 900 and a one-minute
- call to such a number usually costs 50 cents. Under the compensation program
- companies in the 900 service, including those that sponsored adult messages,
- received 2 to 5 cents a call, depending on the volume of calls received.
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- Option to Block Access
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- US West, which serves customers in 14 Western states, said that as soon as
- possible it would begin offering customers, at no charge, the option of
- blocking access from their telephones to pay-to-listen numbers. Customers now
- pay a small fee to have such access blocked.
- US West also said it was setting up a new 960 prefix for the telephone
- numbers of services which it deemed "harmful to its reputation" including
- those that provide adult messages. All pay-to-listen numbers now have the
- prefix 976.
- Money for services on the 960 exchange will not be collected by US
- West, the company said. It is through the special 976 prefix that the phone
- companies bill customers on behalf of the companies providing the messages.
- Residential customers will have the option of blocking access to the
- 960 prefix.
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- Just more attacks at the dial-it services.
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- < Changes at 2600 Magazine >
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- The December issue of 2600 Magazine (Volume 4, Number 12) detailed all of
- the changes that are taking place at 2600.
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- 2600 Magazine has gone from a monthly to a quarterly publication.
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- The December issue contained the following sections:
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- """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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- IMPORTANT NEWS
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- IBM'S VM/CMS SYSTEM
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- TELECOM INFORMER
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- BLV
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- LETTERS
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- SOCIAL INTERACTION
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- ROMAN HACKING
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- 2600 MARKETPLACE
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- L.D. HORROR TALES
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- """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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- This issue ends the regular format because, as stated earlier, the new
- format will be a quarterly publication.
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- On the last page of the December issue was an advertisement that might be of
- interest to some readers:
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- """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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- The Telecom Security Group
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- SECURITY PERSONNEL: Hackers play a role in violating YOUR computer's
- security.
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- LET OUR TEAM PUT YOUR FEARS TO REST with our complete "system penetration"
- services. We'll also keep you up to date on what hackers know about you.
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- CALL OR WRITE FOR MORE INFORMATION
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- The Telecom Security Group Office: 914-564-0437
- 366 Washington Street Fax: 914-564-5332
- Newburgh, NY 12550 Telex: 70-3848
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- I thought the ad was very interesting as 2600 Magazine contained an
- advertisement for a computer security organization. As for the founder of the
- "Telecom Security Group", well most people know him already.
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- I'm hearing more and more about complaints about the dial-it services. The
- problem is getting some help. I'll be presenting many more articles on this
- subject in issues 26-29.
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- TNS Issues:
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- The TNS issues are still coming out at about 3 issues a month. I'm sorry to
- say that they will be slowing down a bit soon but nothing to worry about.
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- Comments:
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- If you have any comments about TNS (Tolmes News Service) or anything about
- anything at all. Please contact me.
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- I will accept articles if you write them up and somehow send them to me. The
- articles should be news dealing with the phreak/hack world as outlined by
- TNS Issue #1.
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- If you have found out something interesting or would just like to make a
- comment on the Tolmes News Service, the please leave me e-mail at the following
- bulletin boards. The boards with a "*" next to them also contain all of the TNS
- issues.
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- The Executive Inn* (915) 581-5145
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- Pirate-80* (304) 744-2253
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- Digital Logic's DS (305) 395-6906
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- Ripco Internati (312) 528-5020
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- Other places where you MIGHT find me:
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- Phreak Klass Rm. 2600/Atlantic Alliance/Demon Roach/Tele-Thief
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- TNS Quick/\/otes:
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- Pirate-80 has greatly expanded its system. The new additions are:
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- - a 32 meg Irwin tape backup
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- - a 40 meg Seagate hard drive
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- - an IBM expansion chasis (8 slots)
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- Mafia Dude was busted for a stolen IBM convertible. Details will be in TNS
- Issue #25 probably.
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- The Private Connection might be going up again.
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- Bellcore Systems is down (due to Mafia Dude's bust).... see Issue #25.
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- Cablecast 0perator has supposedly developed a revolutionary new type of box.
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- The details are uncertain but it is some type of new gold box called a Dark
- Box.
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- Upcoming Articles in TNS:
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- Putting A Halt to Porn Lines
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- More on the Changes at 2600 Magazine
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- Troubles for 1-900 Lines
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