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Re: AnyWho puts a reverse phone book on the Net
I tried one of these when tracking down some dial-in system abuse being
perpetrated by an ex-employee.
It occurred to me that with the right hardware, a simple perl script
could launch a cruise-missle strike in response to a dial-in to a phone
number ... ;)
(for a good time, call 1-555-2nukeme)
food for thought for the paranoids and/or x-files fans.
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Ross Wright wrote:
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> ..AnyWho puts a reverse phone book on the Net
>
> And personal privacy slips a bit more
>
> If you live in the US and your phone number is listed, visit this
> site [25] and type in your number. AT&T's AnyWho will return your
> name and address. Is your street name linked? If so, click to see
> names and numbers for all of your neighbors. Want a map to your
> house? It's one click away. (Like most such maps, however, the
> correspondence of street address with map location can be wildly
> wrong.) The street proximity search will not show unlisted numbers,
> 800- or 888- numbers, or "distinctive ring" alternate numbers.
>
> AnyWho is not the first reverse phone book on the Net -- 555-1212
> has that distinction [26] -- but it is the most feature-rich. It
> has a "sounds like" match for last name lookups. It lets you edit
> or delete your entry, and requires confirmation by a telephone call
> from the phone number in question. And it combines white and yellow
> pages -- 90M and 10M listings respectively -- though their output
> remains separate. When you ask for a street proximity listing for a
> business listing, you see only other businesses.
>
> [25] http://www.anywho.com:81/telq.html
> [26] http://www.555-1212.com/whte_us.htm
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