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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
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Subject: Re: X on dial-in
Date: 12 Feb 1995 01:10:37 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <3hjn6d$p7b@park.uvsc.edu>
References: <3f44s2$jqm@maverick.maverick.tad.eds.com> <3h4363$jqv@deep.rsoft.bc.ca> <3h5m82$tr@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <3h5scs$a2t@park.uvsc.edu> <D3MuKL.ELv@bonkers.taronga.com> <3h92gp$njt@park.uvsc.edu> <fgoldstein.155.004424B1@bbn.com>
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fgoldstein@bbn.com (Fred R. Goldstein) wrote:
] >Using a telco service for other than its intended-by-the-telco
] >purpose is phreaking.
]
] That's your definition. The usual definition, however, is quite different;
] phreaking is the ILLEGAL use of the telephone network, such as theft of
] service by using stolen codes, blue box-like devices, etc.
Sorry, I was using the term as the phone company uses it, not as
the lawyers use it. Hmmmmm... checking the law books, the lawyers
don't use that term at all! They use the term "theft of services".
Gee, good thing I wasn't trying to use the term in the non-existant
legal sense when I used it.
Feel free to argue semantics with me until you are blue in the face.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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