Edward_Greenberg@cso.3mail.3com.com (01/10/90)
The future:
AT&T will announce its new "Intergalactic Direct Distance Dialing"
system (IGDDD). Although no foreign galaxies will yet have been
hooked into the system, it will be recommended that users begin
placing calls immediately since the time lag to get a ring at the
called party's phone may range up to hundreds of millions of years
or more. When asked about charging for the new service, the
official reply will be, "if you have to ask, you can't afford it -
but you won't have to worry about getting a bill any time soon.
In a dramatic event, a team of hard-core teenage computer
"crackers" will be found to have spent over 10,000 man-hours
attempting to break into what they thought was a high-security
computer system. It will be revealed, however, that the
youngsters were actually attempting to log in to a modem that
was not attached to a computer at all.
The local district attorney's office will announce that charges of
malicious mischief will be filed against the crackers as soon as
they have been deemd safe to be released from their rubber rooms,
where they continue to babble, "Man, this is one tough system
to crack..."