tanner@ki4pv.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) (02/10/90)
It happens that Southern Bell has a service which allows you to call
an "800" number and arrange to disconnect or suspend your own phone
service. They also have a tendency to print the "how-to-use"
information on each phone bill, along with the text:
Your security code is XXXX. Please protect it."
A call or two, and one word picture later -- (Suppose that one throws
away the phone bill, and a dog gets into the garbage. Suppose that
this happens near a high school) -- the representative discovered that
she could flag the account so that this information does not appear on
the bill.
It turned out not to be necessary to talk to phone company security.
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