Hackers: Computer Outlaws revisited

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote: That reminds of of that movie from years back: "Number 5 is Alive;" I think that was the correct title. In the movie, someone was electrocuting people by sending a high-voltage/current spike through the telephone network to their telephones. This was back before electronic switching systems were in wide-spread use. The movie showed lots of banks of the old step-by-step switches with all of the selectors and connctors moving about. It was really neat to see all of that equipment in motion; they showed how calls were, supposedly, traced. Its a shame that that AT&T insisted on scrapping all of those old bits of equipment; when I worked there back in the mid 1980s, in a department that did central office planning and was still working with that old switching equipment, I was told that I couldn't purchase, or otherwise obtain, any of it, that the company's policy was to scrap it. :-( -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.net 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.net beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.