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- FREE DIAL-UP NETWORKING
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- PRIMER NOW AVAILABLE
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- (BPS) -- Informer Computer Terminals, manufacturers of portable and
- mobile data communications equipment, has just released a new booklet,
- "A Primer in Dial-Up Networking." The book will be sent free of charge to
- consumers who request it.
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- "A Primer in Dial-Up Networking" explores dial-up data communications
- concepts and describes the entire line of Informer communications
- products for use with IBM mainframe computers. It is designed to be used
- as a quick reference or as a more complete data communications guide to
- dial-up networking.
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- Sections in the 16-page 8.5- X 11-inch guide cover such topics as:
- choosing the right modem, protocols, protocol converters, error
- correction, data security, data transfer and transmission characteristics,
- networks, and more. The book is geared mainly toward
- mainframe-to-micro communications.
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- For your free copy, write to: Informer Computer Terminals, Inc., Att: Cyndi
- Green, 12781 Pala Drive, Garden Grove, CA 92641.
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- LONG-DISTANCE FRAUD EXPENSIVE FOR
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- PHONE COMPANIES AND PERPETRATORS!
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- (BPS) -- One alleged ring of computer "hackers" is finding out just how
- expensive long distance telephone fraud can be. U.S. Sprint announced
- August 28 it has filed three lawsuits, seeking more than $20 million in
- compensation, against a multi-state ring of computer "hackers." The group
- in question has allegedly been involved in the use of illegally-obtained
- authorization codes to steal long-distance telephone service.
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- The suits were filed August 27, in U.S. district courts in Los Angeles,
- Seattle, and Kansas City, Mo.
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- Long-distance telephone Computer "hackers," such as the unnamed
- individuals involved in the U.S. Sprint suit, use computers and special
- software to randomly identify Sprint long-distance authorization codes.
- These codes, the numbers that some customers dial to gain authorized
- access to the long-distance system, are then used by the "hackers" to make
- long-distance calls that are charged to the accounts of the original
- holders of the authorization numbers.
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- Since authorized customers routinely dispute charges for calls they didn't
- make, the company, in this case U.S. Sprint, has to absorb the cost of
- billings for calls made with illegally-obtained authorization codes. Sprint
- officials have blamed at least a portion of the $76 million loss it reported
- for its second quarter to thousands of customer-billing problems.
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