bugged?

Pearson Shane Shane.Pearson at tafensw.edu.au
Mon Feb 16 20:01:52 PST 1998



Hi Alan,

I thought he was refering to that too, but notice
he says the beep is before the negotiation, just
after the dialing.

Bye for now.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Alan Olsen [SMTP:alan at clueserver.org]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 17, 1998 7:06 AM
> To:	Ken Williams
> Cc:	cypherpunks at toad.com; dc-stuff at dis.org;
> hh-chat at gateway-1.secureservers.net
> Subject:	Re: bugged?
> 
> 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
> >
> >http://152.7.11.38/~tattooman
> >
> >---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:41:23 +0930
> >From: XXX at XXX.XXX
> >To: jkwilli2 at 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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