anybody have any ideas here? this is a personal email forwarded to me from a friend who *might* have cause to believe he is bugged. this is coming from a .au domain, btw. thanx, TATTOOMAN http://152.7.11.38/~tattooman ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:41:23 +0930 From: XXX@XXX.XXX To: jkwilli2@unity.ncsu.edu Subject: PGP Yo tat, I got pgp 5.0. which will not work with your version. Upgrade man :-) Oh well I'll tell ya without pgp. It's not that much of a problem the question I wanted to ask you (well I hope it's not). Anyway, what I wanted to ask you is whether you might know why I'm getting a very DISTINCTIVE beep when I connect with my modem to my ISP. The beep(only once) comes just after the initial dialup and just before all the noise you get before the connection. Sounds wierd and it only started 2 days ago. I never heard a connection like this before and I'm wondering whether my phone line is being tapped. Any suggestions ?? XXXXX P.S. Just in case my mail is being read by someone other than Tattooman..here's to you (_|_)
Ascend MAX 4000/4002/4004/etc units running certain code versions emit a "burp" tone before they initiate carrier. If your friends ISP is using these, then he shouldn't have much to worry about. A quick way to test would be to just call up the ISP and ask, though that's a little obvious. What you can do is go to a payphone and make a call to the ISPs dialup number and see if it emits the tone then. If it does, I'd go ahead and make you next call to the ISP. Just give some poor schmuck in tech support a hard time and find out what equipment they use for the dialin pool. If it's Ascend, then that's your problem. Mr. Man - mrman@mybutt.com On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Ken Williams wrote:
anybody have any ideas here? this is a personal email forwarded to me from a friend who *might* have cause to believe he is bugged. this is coming from a .au domain, btw.
thanx,
TATTOOMAN
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:41:23 +0930 From: XXX@XXX.XXX To: jkwilli2@unity.ncsu.edu Subject: PGP
Yo tat,
I got pgp 5.0. which will not work with your version. Upgrade man :-)
Oh well I'll tell ya without pgp. It's not that much of a problem the question I wanted to ask you (well I hope it's not).
Anyway, what I wanted to ask you is whether you might know why I'm getting a very DISTINCTIVE beep when I connect with my modem to my ISP. The beep(only once) comes just after the initial dialup and just before all the noise you get before the connection.
Sounds wierd and it only started 2 days ago. I never heard a connection like this before and I'm wondering whether my phone line is being tapped.
Any suggestions ??
XXXXX
P.S. Just in case my mail is being read by someone other than Tattooman..here's to you (_|_)
At 06:20 AM 2/16/98 -0500, Ken Williams wrote:
anybody have any ideas here? this is a personal email forwarded to me from a friend who *might* have cause to believe he is bugged. this is coming from a .au domain, btw.
Sounds like he has a 56k modem and his ISP just upgraded to the same sort of 56k modem he has. That is part of the protocol negotiation. (In the future, it will take 30 minutes to finish connecting with a modem, but we will all get 666k transmission speed over normal phone lines.)
thanx,
TATTOOMAN
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:41:23 +0930 From: XXX@XXX.XXX To: jkwilli2@unity.ncsu.edu Subject: PGP
Yo tat,
I got pgp 5.0. which will not work with your version. Upgrade man :-)
Oh well I'll tell ya without pgp. It's not that much of a problem the question I wanted to ask you (well I hope it's not).
Anyway, what I wanted to ask you is whether you might know why I'm getting a very DISTINCTIVE beep when I connect with my modem to my ISP. The beep(only once) comes just after the initial dialup and just before all the noise you get before the connection.
Sounds wierd and it only started 2 days ago. I never heard a connection like this before and I'm wondering whether my phone line is being tapped.
Any suggestions ??
XXXXX
P.S. Just in case my mail is being read by someone other than Tattooman..here's to you (_|_)
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His ISP has probably switched to 56K-capable modems. This sounds like a recognition tone (a low "brrrrp" sound). He could try dialing another number from that phone to see if he gets the tone, or calling the ISP from another location, such as a pay phone, if he feels like experimenting. "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's out to get you." ;) -r.w. On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Ken Williams wrote:
anybody have any ideas here? this is a personal email forwarded to me from a friend who *might* have cause to believe he is bugged. this is coming from a .au domain, btw.
thanx,
TATTOOMAN
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:41:23 +0930 From: XXX@XXX.XXX To: jkwilli2@unity.ncsu.edu Subject: PGP
Yo tat,
I got pgp 5.0. which will not work with your version. Upgrade man :-)
Oh well I'll tell ya without pgp. It's not that much of a problem the question I wanted to ask you (well I hope it's not).
Anyway, what I wanted to ask you is whether you might know why I'm getting a very DISTINCTIVE beep when I connect with my modem to my ISP. The beep(only once) comes just after the initial dialup and just before all the noise you get before the connection.
Sounds wierd and it only started 2 days ago. I never heard a connection like this before and I'm wondering whether my phone line is being tapped.
Any suggestions ??
XXXXX
P.S. Just in case my mail is being read by someone other than Tattooman..here's to you (_|_)
I don't know if there has been any ideas sent in reply to this yet, but it is possible that this user has an X2 modem (it makes a beep before the completion of a handshake to detect an X2 serving modem) or possibly a K56flex (although I've nbever connected using one befire). Adios, -D On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Ken Williams wrote:
anybody have any ideas here? this is a personal email forwarded to me from a friend who *might* have cause to believe he is bugged. this is coming from a .au domain, btw.
thanx,
TATTOOMAN
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:41:23 +0930 From: XXX@XXX.XXX To: jkwilli2@unity.ncsu.edu Subject: PGP
Yo tat,
I got pgp 5.0. which will not work with your version. Upgrade man :-)
Oh well I'll tell ya without pgp. It's not that much of a problem the question I wanted to ask you (well I hope it's not).
Anyway, what I wanted to ask you is whether you might know why I'm getting a very DISTINCTIVE beep when I connect with my modem to my ISP. The beep(only once) comes just after the initial dialup and just before all the noise you get before the connection.
Sounds wierd and it only started 2 days ago. I never heard a connection like this before and I'm wondering whether my phone line is being tapped.
Any suggestions ??
XXXXX
P.S. Just in case my mail is being read by someone other than Tattooman..here's to you (_|_)
anybody have any ideas here? this is a personal email forwarded to me from a friend who *might* have cause to believe he is bugged. this is coming from a .au domain, btw.
thanx,
TATTOOMAN
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I got pgp 5.0. which will not work with your version. Upgrade man :-)
Oh well I'll tell ya without pgp. It's not that much of a problem the question I wanted to ask you (well I hope it's not).
Anyway, what I wanted to ask you is whether you might know why I'm getting a very DISTINCTIVE beep when I connect with my modem to my ISP. The beep(only once) comes just after the initial dialup and just before all the noise you get before the connection.
Sounds wierd and it only started 2 days ago. I never heard a connection like this before and I'm wondering whether my phone line is being tapped.
Any suggestions ??
XXXXX
P.S. Just in case my mail is being read by someone other than Tattooman..here's to you (_|_)
What have you been doing wrong?? :) Anyway suggestions are; 1) You can use a voltage check , if you want, but there are ways around that.. Someone actually emailed the list a while back re overcoming this problem, email me privately if you are still looking and ill dig up the schematics for it for you. but you can use a modified power up system to maintain the initial voltage level. 2) Or, have fun with the possibilty. Get a good friend in with you, one you can trust, and one you can ring at any hour.. It takes upto two weeks to transcribe a recorded phone conversation, unless you are involved with drugs. which is the next part of the good time. talk about drug dealing and arms trading , prostition etc, with your friend for the next 2-3 weeks. he can call you from a public phone. then one night ring him up, in a mad panic, claiming that you just caught somone trying to break into your house, and you clubbed him over the head and killed him. then make plans for him to help you dispose of the body and have a human shaped "thing" in a bag that you can then carry out at night to his car.. If your phone is being taped you should have a police escort all ready to help you load the car... Time consuming but a sure thing ;) trust me... The other option is using a reprogrammed mobile phone for just those kind of conversations, but thats naughty.... or buying the optus card package, aus only, for about $70-00, which gives you a simm card and sixty dollars worth of calls.. phone is not supplied. hurry though, as the feds want these cards to be name registered, as they can presently be bought with no ID.. great for those untraceable dealings... Well thats about it without thinking. If you need help , to tattooman's friend, email me privately. from one OZ to another.. Seeya. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ "The meek shall inherit the Earth, _/_/ But it is the strong and powerful who shall rule it" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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