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- From: steven@enel.ucalgary.ca (Steven Leikeim)
- Subject: Re: Caller ID products?
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 23:46:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.221642.6070@sfu.ca> howesb@fraser.sfu.ca (Charles Howes) writes:
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- >Even if you have a second line, if the cracker knows the second number and
- >how long it will take for the modem to 'think' before dialing, the cracker
- >can then call the second line just as the modem picks it up.
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- However, you can restrict the second number so that it cannot be dialed into.
- Most (all?) PBX's have this capability and I'm sure that one could convince
- the phone company to supply this capability if it came to that.
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