[comp.dcom.telecom] Reverse Directory Strikes Again

Steve Forrette <forrette@cory.berkeley.edu> (06/08/91)

In watching the news the past week, I realized that two of my friends
lived in the same apartment building as Sacramento's recently-arrested
"Thrill Killer".  They moved a couple of months ago (the killings were
in February).  In speaking with them, it turns out that they got a
call from a reporter with the {San Francisco Chronicle}.  They had no
idea how they had been tracked down.  I asked them if they had had
their telephone service listed at their old address, and if there was
a referral from that number to their current number.  Yes on both
counts was the answer.  They were surprised when I told them that some
people had directories ordered by address.  They didn't have a phit
about their privacy, though.  :-)


Steve Forrette, forrette@cory.berkeley.edu