q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner) (10/04/90)
In article <451@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU>, barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes: > > Or, for day to day use, you can record, analyze (on the MonsterScope) and > playback the tone access codes used by the telephone company--- > free phone calls for everyone! Shoot, no need to get them off of MonsterScope. Just get an AT&T Manual (the proper one of course). You make make an application called 'NeXT Box' or 'Magneesium Box'. <grin> > Sounds to me like the FCC's gonna have to shut down NeXT :-) > Just ask 'Ramparts' Magazine.... -- Joel Sumner GENIE:JOEL.SUMNER These opinions are q4kx@cornella.ccs.cornell.edu q4kx@cornella warranted for 90 days or q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu q4kx@crnlvax5 60,000 miles. Whichever .................................................... comes first. Never test for an error condition that you can't handle.
zippy@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts) (10/04/90)
In article <1990Oct3.153407.267@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner) writes: >In article <451@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU>, barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) >writes: >> >> Or, for day to day use, you can record, analyze (on the MonsterScope) and >> playback the tone access codes used by the telephone company--- >> free phone calls for everyone! > >Shoot, no need to get them off of MonsterScope. Just get an AT&T Manual >(the proper one of course). You make make an application called >'NeXT Box' or 'Magneesium Box'. <grin> > >> Sounds to me like the FCC's gonna have to shut down NeXT :-) >> > >Just ask 'Ramparts' Magazine.... Early in the days of blue boxing, some folks at the MIT AI Lab hacked up a tone generator for the PDP-11. Purely an academic exercise, mind you :-) When the phone police came to pocket the offending device, Ok, where's the box? and everyone pointed at this refrigerator sized machine... --Pat -- This .sig space for rent.