Comments on: The telephone wars: waiting for Godot? https://thenewneo.com/2006/09/21/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: strcpy https://thenewneo.com/2006/09/21/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot/#comment-25562 Sat, 23 Sep 2006 05:38:36 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/09/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot.html#comment-25562 I live in Knoxville Tn, I have quite a few friends in small Tennessee towns that also know of this (Grey, Kingsport, Rutledge, etc). As far as I know none of us ever used the knowledge, but that is more because of how I meet and choose my friends than all small town hackers have a sense of moral responsibility.

Especially with the internet now, knowledge crimes like this have nothing to do with the size of the town you live in. Especially given that most of these crimes are done by teenagers not really thinking about the consequences of thier actions (“hey look! mom/dad will not let me do this from our house – I can go next door and do it this way and no one will ever know!”), not by a focused criminal.

]]> By: ginger https://thenewneo.com/2006/09/21/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot/#comment-25561 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:38:17 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/09/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot.html#comment-25561 Add me to the Verizon detractors. Best service I’ve had was T-Mobile….sadly they have no service here so I had to switch. My land line is through my cable company though, not one of the phone companies, and I’ve had actually quite terrific service from them. As in they are here when they say they will be every time thus far. Like the new pic neo….you look much younger with the darker hair! Add me too to the group whose monitor makes it appear rather dark. Sheesh Stropy….never thought of that and my box is both unlocked and at waist level!! Add to shopping list a smallish pad lock. Then again, here in teeny, teeny town Tennessee I’m unlikely to have a problem. 🙂

]]> By: strcpy https://thenewneo.com/2006/09/21/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot/#comment-25560 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:53:35 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/09/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot.html#comment-25560 An important thing:

Make sure you resecure that box – really. It is an ouside jack with no security other than your lock that is *your* phone line. Were I to come over to your house, open it, plug my phone in, and make 10,000 dollars of 900 numbers it’s your bill and little you can do about it. You do not want it where anyone can just walk up and plug a phone in – that is the reason it was so hard to reach.

However simple or hard it was for you to get too it is the same for anyone else. Nearly all houses built in the last few decades have those boxes and all the phones phreakers know about them. If you know they are there you can see them all over the place, I cringe when I see them at eye level (or below) and simply cliped, not locked with a pad lock.

]]> By: benning https://thenewneo.com/2006/09/21/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot/#comment-25559 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:15:17 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/09/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot.html#comment-25559 You do have some juicy horror stories, neo!

]]> By: david foster https://thenewneo.com/2006/09/21/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot/#comment-25558 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:10:28 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/09/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot.html#comment-25558 On those dark days when I am forced to call Verizon and talk to a human, s(he) starts the conversation with “How can I provide you with excellent service today?”

]]> By: Vanderleun https://thenewneo.com/2006/09/21/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot/#comment-25557 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:35:03 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/09/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot.html#comment-25557 You’re just a hard core people pleaser. I say, let them buy new monitors.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2006/09/21/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot/#comment-25556 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 05:57:28 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/09/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot.html#comment-25556 See new post for photo explanation.

On my computer it’s not dark. But if the consensus is that it’s too dark, I can always put up a lighter version. Everyone’s computer seems to have a different color setting, I’ve noticed.

]]> By: EvilDave https://thenewneo.com/2006/09/21/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot/#comment-25555 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 05:51:59 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/09/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot.html#comment-25555 So what’s up with the new picture?

]]> By: Nyomythus https://thenewneo.com/2006/09/21/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot/#comment-25554 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 05:21:53 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/09/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot.html#comment-25554 The new pic looks good — it’s a tad dark though.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2006/09/21/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot/#comment-25553 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:36:09 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/09/telephone-wars-waiting-for-godot.html#comment-25553 I meant “so un-PC” in above comment.

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