From: cactus@hks.net (L. Todd Masco)
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 94 20:27:32 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: NYT on Insecure Phones
Message-ID: <199412040432.XAA13619@bb.hks.net>
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In article <199412040246.VAA25360@pipe3.pipeline.com>,
John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:
>         Cellular One of Washington-Baltimore, owned by SBC
>   Communications Inc., has sent its customers letters
>   notifying them that it would block the service beginning on
>   Thursday because it had compiled a huge backlog of phone
>   numbers used in New York that appeared to be fraudulent.

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*.

So to avoid their own exposure to fraud, they're requiring their
customers to give credit card info over the cellphone.  Thanks, guys.

No pro-34s 'round here, nope.
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