{"id":542,"date":"2006-02-22T17:02:38","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T22:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=542"},"modified":"2006-02-22T17:04:46","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T22:04:46","slug":"what-happens-in-vegas-stays-with-a-dropped-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"What happens in Vegas, drops the call in Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent discussion I was having with another telecom-buff friend of mine brought back to light one of my favorite little cases of hackers and organized crime: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.securityfocus.com\/news\/355\">the great Las Vegas telephone racket<\/a>.  Which really, for all we know, could still be taking place today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"body\"> &#8220;Then, all of a sudden, the phones stopped ringing,&#8221; says [<\/span><span class=\"body\">Larry Duke] <\/span><span class=\"body\">Reubel, gravel in his voice. &#8220;There&#8217;s no reason for the phones to stop ringing.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"body\">[&#8230;]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"body\"> &#8220;Going over your testimony, you seem to blame Sprint for the loss of your business,&#8221; [counselor Patrick] Riley says, with mock bewilderment. &#8220;Is that correct?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re providing a service to me, and they&#8217;re not providing the security they should,&#8221; Reubel replies. &#8220;So, yes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although the article dates to 2002, it&#8217;s quite an interesting read, and given that its implications are still relevant today, it&#8217;s a stark reminder of how open to attack a device usually seen as low-tech to most really can be.  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.securityfocus.com\/news\/355\">The full article can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent discussion I was having with another telecom-buff friend of mine brought back to light one of my favorite little cases of hackers and organized crime: the great Las Vegas telephone racket. Which really, for all we know, could still be taking place today. &#8220;Then, all of a sudden, the phones stopped ringing,&#8221; says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}