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Start nailing the telcos on this, including the mobile ones, and watch how fast that shit stops.

exactly, and i've written my congressman to that effect. Trouble is all politicians use telemarketers in campaign season so they're not going to hurt their own urchins.

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So the premise that these folks know nothing about what is going on is horseshit. They know exactly where it's coming from.

i'd got that far trying to look into how telcom works. But the consumer has no way to get that far in, that i could find.

"Blue Boxes" need to make a comeback . Surely one could get into their system with a DTMF equipped Pi ?
I have a tube of TP5088 4 bit parallel to DTMF tone generators
but am clueless how to establish a handshake .

"Where have all the hackers gone, long time passing ?"

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