Wardialing

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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Gardner Cohen wrote:

> There was a recent article in the San Jose Mercury News (San Jose
> CA) describing easily found computer security lapses in the Silicon Valley.
> The person featured in the article had discovered these lapses by
> sequentially dialing phone numbers using a wardialer, looking for modem
> tones.

I thought this is called scan dialing, whereas war dialing is dialing the
same (busy) number(s) over and over to get through.

> Or, even worse, they want to do a cheap
> telesales operation, and only want to bother picking up the phone when
> they're sure there's someone on the other end.

Yes, you are right. I don't believe in concealing information, but
explicitly helping even the most clueless of profit-heads is like
asking to be spammed...

Kai

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