Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!lll-lcc!ames!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hplabsz!taylor From: collier@charon.unm.edu (Uncia Uncia) Newsgroups: comp.society Subject: Re: Telephone Privacy Issues Message-ID: <1165@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 23:40:02 EST Article-I.D.: hplabsz.1165 Posted: Sat Dec 5 23:40:02 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 23:48:14 EST Sender: taylor@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Lines: 22 Approved: taylor@hplabs Joel Rives writes: > ...If you have a voice chip (or something comparable) have it generate > a little message to tie up their phone lines. Better yet, if you can > find the number for the president of the company, have your system > continuously dial his home phone. I saw a 60 minutes segment or something of that nature on a fellow who resented Jerry Falwell with such vehemence that he fired up his PC and tied up Falwell's toll free donation lines for about 15 days straight. Falwell's phone bill totalled 7 figures. The phone company finally caught the culprit. Falwell was going to sue him, of course, but the phone company was also going to prosecute criminally. The laws may vary from state to state, but I suspect that in most places it wouldn't be very healthy to be caught doing this sort of thing. BTW, this particular fellow didn't seem very apologetic, and was willing to go to jail or whatever for the privilege of harrassing Falwell. I guess if you are angry enough it won't matter what they can do to you afterwards. Michael Collier