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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Need Help With Phone Pranksters
Article: 7407 of alt.hackers From: emerson@mercury.sfsu.edu (Russell Pickett) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Need Help With Phone Pranksters Date: 18 Feb 1995 00:18:30 GMT Organization: the mercy of his .edu account Lines: 44 Approved: by his peers, hated by his enemies... Message-ID: 3i3ecm$jge@news.csus.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: @mercury.sfsu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 Status: RO
In article <3i18ak$gjj@horus.infinet.com>, twemling@infinet.com says... > >I am hoping someone on this group can help me figure out a way to deal >with some phone pranksters (kids) who have been leaving obscene messages >on my answering machine / voice mail. I have caller ID (but they are >naturally coming in as anonymous calls), and I just signed up for call >return on a trial basis. Is there any way I can find out what number >these calls are being made from? Anyone got any other good suggestions? > ObStupidKidsHackPlusAdvice: When this was happenning to my roommate, to the tune of three calls an hour, every night for a week, we took the simple scare'm approach... Hooked another phone up to the phone line, and when they called and started giving my roommate a hard time, I picked up the extension and announced, very urgently, "This is Jim Billbock of Southwestern Bell -- Do not hang up!" They, of course, hung up, and never called back. If you're at all around when they call, and can get an official-sounding accomplice, this is a simple and effective way to take care of this. ObDidThatCountIDon'tThinkSoHack: Umn... hack in progress: setting up a home network of 2 Windows for Workgroups boxes, one Linux box, and one old Mac SE/30, and trying to attach all of that to the 'Net. Not any great shakes as a hack, but given that I have virtually zero Unix under my belt, and I'm juggling up to three different network protocols, this is proving to be quite an intellectual exercise. It's also compounded by my desire to convert one WFW box to a Warp box. I'm sure this will supply me with many more specific ObHacks as time goes on, so... film at eleven. -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ R Pickett <--- watch this space for exciting changes 06/95!!! emerson@sfsu.edu Not responsible blahblahblah my own words blahblah, emerson@opcode.com blahblah reflect the opinions blahblah get it blah? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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