On Wed, 22 Jun 1994, Jim Sewell wrote:
<In mail Michael Handler said:>
Cellular Telephone Experimenters Kit $125, Available for OKI 900
Cell providers should be scared of this. I saw the OKI 900 the first time on a news clip on either one of those "Educational type" shows or a CNN-(like?) news clip. The typical nerd was there with billions of wires coming out of it saying how simple it was to hook it up and after it was wired to his computer he could simply decode another ID and rewrite his phone with that id and Joe Schmoe would get the bill. Made it sound VERY simple to make the world think you were Joe.
Fear not, Jim! Reread the article: it says that the CTEK cannot be used to fake a bogus ESN (this controls billing). As it says, the CTEK is more useful as a cellular monitor than a tool for fraud. Of course, this doesn't rule out a very good hardware hacker playing with the ROMs in it.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Brandt Handler <grendel@netaxs.com> Philadelphia, PA PGP v2.6 public key on request Boycott PSI, Inc. & Canter & Siegel <<NSA>> 1984: We're Behind Schedule "With opiates of silicon / Big Brother schemes to rule the nation" -- BR