From: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:08:01 +0800
To: "Mark O. Aldrich" <maldrich@grci.com>
Subject: Re: Hacking Mobil Telephone System ?
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Mark O. Aldrich wrote:
> 
> While there's dubious wisdom in trying to tell Der Polizei, "I was just
> responding to an authorization that I found on the Internet that says it's
> OK to phreak your phones - honest," I'd also expect to get paid a hell of
> a lot more than $65 for doing a penetration test on their network.  Sixty
> five bucks won't even pay the per diem, none the less a reasonable wage.

These continental europeans tend to type '.' instead of commas, and ','
instead of points when they write numbers.  (They also have funny ones
and sevens, but that's a another story.)

I thought the offer of 100,000 DM very respectable, and a tad unusual
for a [usually conservative] telecoms company.  It sure beats baseball
caps and T-shirts.

> And Der Polizei is *NOT* known for having a sense of humor about anything,
> at any time, with anyone.

I 100% agree ...

> Remember, kids, they may look like shit in
> uniform, but those automatic weapons they carry are real, so's the ammo,
> and they know how to use both of 'em.

... but the semi automatics they carry are not much different to ones US
cops have.
 
> And *I'll* decide if and when I want to give it to charity, just like I do
> with the rest of my salary, thank you....

And *they'll* decide what sort of deal *they* want to offer.  They did
say the money could be donataed to any non-profit organisation, so this
covers a wide range of organisations (your school or university perhaps,
or computer society, or even the Church of Scientology, The Vatican,
Mitre Corp, NFL, etc. etc.).  I wonder if Radikal is a non-profit  :-)


Gary
--
"Of course the US Constitution isn't perfect; but it's a lot better
than what we have now."  -- Unknown.

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