18 Jun
2011
18 Jun
'11
1:08 p.m.
The
[emergency] phone installed in an elevator (lift) has no coin slot?
I was not aware that emergency phones in lifts in the UK were attached
to the PSTN in a way you could gain control of the line. My The closest to this that I'm aware of in my neck
of the woods was an
acquaintance of mine who loaded the family Apple II into the station
wagon and parked by the garden center of the nearby K-Mart. It had a
payphone next to an accessible power outlet. I don't recall hearing
any tales of split-second getaways, but the arrangement did afford a
quick exit.
At one time public telephone boxes in the UK had a light in them which
used a normal mains filamnet bulb. There are stories of hackers/crackers
removing said bulb and pluging a BC plug into the lampholder to run a
terminal/modem. I do not know how reliable said storeis are...
[Even older telephone boxes had a mirror in them, for what reason
$deity-only-knows, and I've met a person who claimed to have removed the
bulb from such a telephone box to plug in an electric shaver which he
then used, along with the mirror, for the normal purpose]
-tony