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- THE SYNDICATE REPORT
- Information Transmittal No. 15
- (Part 2)
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- Released September 21, 1987
- Featuring:
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- Exposition / Author's Note (sr 9\20;30-48)
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- UNIX System Newsletter (i.wld 9\6;71)
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- Fiber Optics In The Home (bs.wk 9\11;83)
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- More Global Clout For MCI (bs.wk 9\14;118)
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- Horse-Racing Fanatics Bet Via Modem (bs.wk 9\14;131)
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- The IBM-MCI Partnership Fanally Takes Off (bs.wk 9\20;154)
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- Syndicate Report Brief Notes (digest 9\17;175)
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- by The Sensei
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- Exposition: TSR
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- Once again, TSReport now excepts outside sources. Anyone can write/provide
- information to The Syndicate Report. Articles/Information may be provided
- through TSR Newsline (see below), via voice VMS System. Any info such as
- Busts, Phreaking, Hacking, Data / TeleCommunications, and new developments
- on any the previous mentioned specialities will be: accepted, labeled, and
- given full actual credit by the article/info provider(s), or writer(s). --
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- All articles have been presented by me unless shown at the end of the
- article as the information provider(s), or writer(s).
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- TSR Transfer Line I 612 829-8509 ------ TSR Transfer Line II 612 829-8508
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- TSR Newsline 612 829-8503
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- Author's Note: TSR
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- Hello and WELCOME to 'Part 2' of The Syndicate Report Transmittal #15/2.
- Part 2 was brought on for many reasons. The amount of news this month, and the
- latter part of August brought a lot of extra articles and the such. I'd like
- to thank people for submitting news/articles, it helps.
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- I've also set up another VMS system. This is not dial direct such
- as the above VMS's. The number is 612-831-0888. When you hear the female
- instructions voice, simply dial: 404. You will then hear my voice with
- instructions on leaving name and number etc. Retrieval of messages is 90%
- faster on this VMS since there is an online pager built in. So if there is a
- need to contact me quick, leave your message with contacting informatin and
- the VMS will page me and transmit your message. Use this only for emergency
- type situations. The pager can be turned off by me. -Thank you.
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- Personal Comment: As most of you know, LOD/H is publishing Technical
- Journals. I recommend reading and storing the Tech. Journals for they prove to
- be good for past and future reference. LOD/H Technical Journals may be
- downloaded from any of the various systems reviewed at the end of this Report.
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- UNIX SYSTEM NEWSLETTER: TSR
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- Usr/Group, the International Association fo Unix Systems Users, began
- publishing a beweekly newsletter last month to cover the Unix Systems
- Marketplace.
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- The Usr/Digest summarizes product introductions and enhancements,
- corporate announcements, industry projections, and other time-sensative events
- that relate specifically to the Unix OS.
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- FIBER OPTICS IN THE HOME: TSR
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- Like many real estate developers, packaged-goods poineer Jeno F.
- Paulucci, the founder of both Jeno's Inc. and Chung King, is betting big on
- newfangled telecommunications system. He thinks tha fiber-optic cable will
- help him lure businesses to what he envisions as a 3,500 acre, $1 billion "city
- of the future" just outside Orlando. (Sounds like my type of city -- but not
- along with the newfangled security systems.) But in a new twist, Paulucci's
- Heathrow Development Co. is teaming up with Southern Bell and Northen Telcom to
- take fiber optic-cable one step further than it has gone before -- directly
- into the subscribers' homes.
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- Eventually, that partnership will allow the first 250 residents moving
- into Heathrow next year to enjoy the benefits of cable TV, movie rentals,
- security and energy-management systems, computerized data, and phone service
- through a single telecommunications line.
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- Other U.S. phone companies also are plunging into residential trials
- with optical-cable. American Telephone & Telegraph and southwestern Bell are
- teaming up on a pilot project involving 100 homes in Leewood, Kan., while GTE
- has request regulatory aproval to wire more than 5,000 homes in Cerritos,
- outside Los Angeles.
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- "These are the first serious experiments in the U.S.," says John P.
- Ryna, manager of the fiber-optics group at Electronicast Corp., a San Mateo
- (Calif.) markey resercher. Ryan thinks the home market for fiber-optics
- technology is poised to take off early in the next decade. He figures some
- 900$ million worth of fiber-otic cable and equipment wil be sold to regional
- phone comanies this year, though almost exclusively for business applications.
- But by 1995, Ryan anticipates residential sales could account for 75% of a
- market worth some 4$ billion. "Ultimately, these trials will drive the
- technilogy," he says. "It's where the exonomics will be sorted out."
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- MORE GLOBAL CLOUT FOR MCI: TSR
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- It was the right deal at the right price. MCI Communications Corp.
- announced on Sept. 3 that it wil buy telex giant RCA Global Communications
- Inc. from General Electric Co. for 160$ million. While newer communications
- services are supplanting telex, MIC seems to have gotten a bargain. It picked
- up a crack engineering staff and a host of medium-size business customers.
- But the biggest value may be Globecom's world presence: MCI's share of the
- international data transmission business will jump to about 45% from roughly
- 20%, giving MCI more clout in future negotiations with foreign governments.
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- HORSE-RACING FANATICS BET VIA MODEM: TSR
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- More then 360,000 horse-racing fanatics have special accounts for
- placing telephone bets with the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club. But on busy race
- days the phone lines get jammed -- even with 1,600 operators on duty. To
- cope, the Hong Kong Club is buying. handheld portable betting terminals, so
- members can bypass the operators and post their bets, via modem, directly to
- the club's computer network. The "portabet" terminals were developed jointly
- by Kiel Corp. in Amherst, N.H., and Varitronix Ltd. of Hong Kong, which will
- be the actual manufacturing. After a test period next spring, the Jockey Club
- hopes to offer the units to as many as 100,000 bettors for less than 100$
- each.
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- Allowing outsiders to dial directly to the compuer will present
- hazards. No doubt some horse-happy hackers will try to place bets from their
- own comptuers, evesdrop on expert bettors, alter bets, or otherwise tap into
- the 7$ million that flows in dialy via phone bets. To foil them, the Jockey
- Club has dired several other U.S. companies, including San Diego's
- International Totalizator Systems, to develop security far more tamperproof
- than any home-banking system no in use.
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- THE IBM-MCI PARTNERSHIP FINALLY TAKES OFF: TSR
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- When International Business Machines Corp. bought a 16% share of MCI
- Communications Corp. in early. in early 1986, it looked as if American
- Telephone & Telegraph Co. was in for some tough competition. Its chief rival
- in the long-distance business had teamed up with the leading computer maker,
- and together they were pithcing network services to major corporations. But
- they never seemed to get anywhere -- until now.
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- On Sept. 1 the MCI-IBM team landed its first big customer: United
- Airlines Inc. The contract, valued at more then 10$ million, will increase
- MCI's share of United's long-distance phone business to 20% from 5%, the
- airline says. AT&T will stil provide the rest. IBM's contribution is NetView,
- a system that will let United route its own voice and data traffic -- both
- internally and to the MCI network. This gives United control of what was done
- by an outside carrier. United, a longtime IBM customer, was also one of the
- first to place big orders for IBM's 9370 minicomputers and PS/2 personal
- computers.
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- SYNDICATE REPORT BRIEF NOTES: TSR
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- A computer hacker was apprehended recently for gaining access to
- Pacific Northwestern Bell data banks, with information he gathered by raiding
- dumpters outside CO buildings. The incident promptly reminded PNB Officials
- to remind employees to put discarded records that contain priotary information
- in boxes destine for shedding.
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- :::::::::::::::::Information Provided by Silent Assault 612:::::::::::::::::
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- MCI is planning to replace the 5 Digit Access Code Ports with cards and
- advanced digit coding. Rumor length is 8 digits. The move was brought upon
- by excessive fraud. MCI plans to have the new format effective by the end of
- the year 1988.
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- WARNING -- For Hackers of State University New York/St. Francis.
- Security has been stepped up recently, according to NY Times. Apparently,
- New York State Police caught Lebanon Terrorists using the mainframe to do
- illegal dealings. Officials have been scanning the accounts for content. 1
- of the 3 Terrorists went by the name of Haidar Dhanas. An Electrical
- Engineering Dept. Chairman stated, "Given the security system around here I
- am not very suprised that someone used our Labs at will."
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- Officials also recovered information on stolen military hardware,
- 15,000$ worth of video recorders, TVs, and microwaves apparently being
- bought with stolen credit cards.
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- Those of you that don't know, I've produced a new file. It was released
- on September 7th '87. The file was titled: 3rd Party Fraud and Voice Mail
- Systems. Since Voice Mail Systems are becoming so common, there had to be
- another advantage to them, rather than leaving message remotely with PWs/Codes
- and the like. This file introduces you to another use for VMS's. I'm thinking
- of setting out a 'Part 2' for the 3rd Party Fraud/VMS file, since new ideas and
- developments on VMS's have recently came to my attention. Expect Part 2. and
- Enjoy The Syndicate Report. -The Sensei / TSR
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- This concludes this Transmittal No. 15
- (Part 2)
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- by The Sensei of The Syndicate Report
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- Released September 21st, 1987
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