From: Jonathan Cooper <entropy@IntNet.net>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 94 21:46:57 PST
To: "L. Todd Masco" <cactus@hks.net>
Subject: Re: NYT on Insecure Phones
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> It's worse than that!  They will allow customers to use their service
> in NYC, I'm told by a customer of their's visiting this weekend, if
> they pay for the call with a credit card (IE, VISA, MC, etc) that they
> must *give* *an* *operator* *over* *the* *cellphone*.

   Cell1 is just not incredibly smart about security, physical or 
otherwise.  An aquaintance of mine found a "Fraud Alert Bulletin" in a 
Cellular One trash can which warned about the dangers of not shredding 
your trash.  Of course, in the same bag was wads of credit card info, NAM 
& ESN info, etc.

=jon

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