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To: freedumb2003

Rockford found a way to partially exploit an answering machine in Pastoria Prime Pick. A favorite episode.

He used the playback tone and a tape recorder.


12 posted on 11/15/2015 4:57:31 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: wally_bert

Most people never changed the default password on the old machines. A hacker could war dial till he got one and then change the message to “hello [pause] yea, sure” and subsequently refer an operator to that number for third party billing.


27 posted on 11/15/2015 7:22:13 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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