amb@cs.columbia.edu (Andrew M. Boardman) (06/13/90)
...or, Is Responsible Technical Reporting Dead?
What the Real World sees of telecom...
I just caught the last half of a "news" program by the name of Inside
Edition which was looking at telephone crime, esp. in the New York
area. This has got to be the National Enquirer of television shows;
after throwing around talk of multi-million dollar phone bills and
showing interviews with various telephone companies and the Secret
Service, (!) they proceed to link telephone abuse with drug dealing,
arms dealers, and assasinations, and imply that this would all be
impossible without [calling cards|PBXen|voice mail|pagers|ad nauseam]
to abuse. (!!) The entire thing was chock-full of technical "facts"
which are years outdated or just plain wrong.
And people wonder why there are movements to locally ban touch-tone or
whatever...
Andrew Boardman
amb@cs.columbia.edu ...rutgers!columbia!amb amb%cs.columbia.edu@cuvmb.bitnet