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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Need Help With Phone Pranksters
Article: 7404 of alt.hackers From: chandler@fiat.gslis.utexas.edu (chandler howell) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Need Help With Phone Pranksters Date: 17 Feb 1995 22:08:32 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 34 Approved: Approve This, Buddy Message-ID: 3i36p0$nj5@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: naftalab.bus.utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
T. E. Wemlinger (twemling@infinet.com) wrote: > I am hoping someone on this group can help me figure out a way to deal > with some phone pranksters (kids) who have been leaving obscene messages > on my answering machine / voice mail. I have caller ID (but they are > naturally coming in as anonymous calls), and I just signed up for call > return on a trial basis. Is there any way I can find out what number > these calls are being made from? Anyone got any other good suggestions? Just disable anonymous calls. I did that to a roomate of mine who lived to call me anonymously after we got caller ID (He even called the school Modem Pool anonymously--what a dweeb). After that, he pretty much quit calling me. Best possible result <gr>. ObAnti-HackerHack: The OWNER of a machine that I adminstrate has the nasty habit of hacking around in people's accounts as superuser, and since I can't just deny him access (it's his machine, after all), I wrote SHELL SCRIPTS (rofl) for who, w, and ps, so they wouldn't show me logged in, then changed system time so the date/time stamp would match the rest of the system files and copied them, then reset the time so I could watch him and see what sort of scummy stuff he was doing--reading people's mail and stuff like that. laterman, chandlerman -- --- *I speak solely for myself, because no one else would let me speak for them* *Chandler W. Howell * "Sleep is for the Weak!" * *work: chandler.howell@sematech.org * "aol.com: handicapped parking on * *home: chandler@naftalab.bus.utexas.edu * the information superhighway"* ****************************************************************************
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