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- THE SYNDICATE REPORT
- Information Transmittal No. 11
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- Released May 19, 1987
- Featuring:
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- Pacific Bell Delays Testing on Project Victoria Device (i.w 5\12)
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- Coalition Fights Efforts to Deregulate Bell (i.w 5\12)
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- Hackers at High School Make Report Cards (cmp.chn 5\14)
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- Gambling Hackers Break Casino Computer (cmp.chn 5-14)
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- FBI Warns Computer Stores In Wake of Serial Bombings (i.w 5\18)
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- State Bill Protecting Electronic Communication (i.w 5\18)
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- New England Bell Planning to Offer ISDN (i.w 5\18)
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- by The Sensei
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- Exposition:
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- Once again, TSReport now excepts outside sources. Anyone can write/provide
- information to the Syndicate Report. The Syndicate Report is also altering
- format. Rather than concentrating mainly on BELL orientated information,
- the Syndicate Report now has a more broad interest. Thus, TSR now handles
- all types of news gatherings.
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- All articles have been presented by me unless shown at the end of the
- article as the information provider(s).
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- Extra Note: 10 Days as of this date before summer freedom!
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- PACIFIC BELL DELAYS TESTING ON PROJECT VICTORIA DEVICE:
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- In a responce to an FCC decision concerning Project Victoria equipment,
- Pacific Bell said it has postponed its fall LA field test of that technology
- and further development on it.
- Project Victoria is a technology that uses multiple-channel access
- system at each site to allow a single telephone line to carry up to seven
- simultaneous voice and data channels. The lineis divided into two 32-kbps
- voice channels, one 9600-bps datachannel, and four 1200-bps data channels.
- Currently, seven telephone lines are needed to provide this capability.
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- The Common Carrier Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission ruled
- March 30 that the multiple-channel access system must be treated as customer
- premises equipment (CPE). In other words, the bureau said the device was
- similar to a telephone and consequently could be provided by an vendor.
- Pacific Bell had wanted the device to be classified as a multiplexer, which
- would allow it to be considered part of the service and not available from
- other vendors. Pacific Bell recently filed a statement with the FCC asking for
- reconsideration.
- The companies that have opposed Pacific Bell include IBM, Tymnet,
- Telenet, Western Union, and the Independant Data Communications Manufacturers
- Associations (IDCMA).
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- COALITION FIGHTS EFFORTS TO DEREGULATE BELL:
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- The unlikely coalition of computer manufacturers, consumers, and AT&T is
- opposing efforts by the Department of Justice to deregulate the regional Bell
- Operating Companies (BOCs), which would allow them full entry into computer and
- information service activities.
- Currently, the BOCs are restrained from making equipment and providing
- many information services. Those restrictions are being challenged in the
- courts via a Department of Justice brief, and in Congress via H.R.2030, a bill
- introduced on April 9. "The Justice Department, three short years after the
- breakup (of AT&T), is proposing another round of radical chang in the system --
- change that could drive rates up and bring service down," said Sen. Howard
- Metzenbaum in April 30 hearings on the Justice Department's move.
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- Officials from BOCs testified that current regulations hamper
- their efforts to provide services and harm the United States' utilization of
- existing phone networks.
- The Justice Department's proposal is being considered by Judge Harold
- Greene of the US District Court in Columbia, who presided over the breakup of
- AT&T three years ago. Department of Jusice officials do not except him
- to make a decision until late summer at the earliest.
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- HACKERS AT HIGH SCHOOL MAKE REPORT CARDS:
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- Northwest Virginia- Most public high schools in Virginia uses desk top
- computers. But, Northdual High school uses these computers not only to educate
- the students, but also to develop report cards. It seems that a group of
- hackers from the school got into the school's computer via datacommunications,
- and copies the desk top and file for making the report cards. They sold the
- report cards to fellow students with pre-marked grades. The hackers were
- caught after a locker search. Each student hacker are suspended till the end
- of the year. No charges were pended.
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- GAMBLING HACKERS BREAK CASINO COMPUTER:
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- Las Vega- A group of computer hackers employed at a Casino in downtown
- Las Vegas were charged with tampering with Casino Computers. Apparently the
- computers were used by the Casino Room to pre-radomly pick cards and
- distribute them to the players. The Casino Hackers cracked the gambling
- computer and copied from defined cards in decks. The hackers used them to bet
- millions of dollars on the card game. They were caught with the numbers while
- exchanging valid codes. The Casino Room's name and Hackers were not
- identified.
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- FBI WARNS COMPUTER STORES IN WAKE OF SERIAL BOMBINGS:
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- An unidentified serial bomber who has already killed one man and injured
- 21 others may be targeting computer-related businesses and university depart-
- ments, the FBI said last week.
- The agency is warning computer retailers and universities that the
- bomber may strike again soon, according to F. Call, and special agent with
- the FBI.
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- Since 1978, the bomber has either mailed or placed at least a dozen
- explosive devices in eight cities from Chicago to San Francisco. The last two
- incidents have occurred at computer stores in Sacramento, Calif., and
- Salt Lake City. A bomb placed outside the rear entrance of Rentech in
- Sacramento on December 11, 1985, killed the store's owner. The last bombing
- linked to the man occurred on February 20, 1987, at Caam's Inc., Salt Lake City
- computer store, injuring one employee.
- The materials and techniques used in making the bombs have led
- investigators to conclude they are the working of a single individual. A
- special task force call Unabom, composed of agents from the FBI, the Bureau of
- Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and U.S. Postal Inspectors is offering a 60,000$
- reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the bomber.
- Persons with information about the bomber are asked to call the Unabom
- hotline at 801-359-1917, or their local FBI office.
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- ::::::::::::::::Information provided by Mrs. Isle Addict::::::::::::::::::::
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- STATE BILL PROTECTING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATON:
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- Sacramento, CA -- An amendment to the Calif. state constitution that
- would give electronic communicaton the same freedom of expression and privacy
- protection as print and verbal communication has been proposed by a LA
- legislator.
- Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 36 (ACA 36), drafted by
- assemblywoman Gwen Moore, would amend the state's constitution to prohibit any
- law from restrining or abridging access to the means of electronic
- communication. It would also protect personal data stored in electronic info.
- systems and computer databases from search and seizure without a warrant
- describing the location to be searched.
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- While no other state has a similar law, the bill resembles the
- Electronic Communications Privacy Act passed by Congress last October. But
- that protects users from federal untrusion, while ACA 36 would protect Calif.
- users from state intrusion as well.
- If the amendment eventually passes both houses of the state legislature,
- the public would vote on it in June 1988.
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- WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN PEOPLE! I know I would want this bill to
- be passed.
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- NEW ENGLAND BELL PLANNING TO OFFER ISDN:
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- New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. plans to offer its customers the
- high speed voice, data, text, and video transmission capabilities of
- ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) after testing the technology
- this summer.
- The intro. of ISDN technology into New England Telephone's network will
- begin in July with a trial conduted between four of its downtown Boston
- locations. The trail is scheduled to last eight months and will involve 75
- ISDN lines.
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- ISDN tech. allows voice, text, data and video to be transmitted
- simultaneously over the telephone line at high speeds. Initially, the
- company will connect 50 personal computers, several local area networks,
- and approximately 100 ISDN telephones.
- After the completion of the July test, the company plans
- to offer ISDN to its customers in the New England area. The fees have not
- been determined.
- New England Telephone estimates that it will spend more than 2$ billion
- between 1987 and 1989 on ISDN tech. Currently, more than 100 digital switching
- systems are in service, along with more than 50,000 miles of fiber cable in
- its fiber optic telephone systems.
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- If there is any question to the information in this file, contact the
- author. Now can be found on the following systems: Metal Shop Private
- in the 314. Proving Grounds 612-645-7132.
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- This concludes this transmittal No. 11 provided by:
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- The Sensei of The Syndicate Report
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- Released May 19, 1987
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