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I have a friend who was inspired by the Abignale story to create his own Southwestern Bell employee ID. He used the artwork off his phone bill and a laminator.
by technofiend 8y ago
I have a friend who was inspired by the Abignale story to create his own Southwestern Bell employee ID. He used the artwork off his phone bill and a laminator. The result passed scrutiny of a cop who wanted to know why he was performing some late night "maintenance" on a phone box.
Between his fake ID, a Bell hard hat and a tool belt with all the proper pieces including a butt set he could go just about anywhere.
- Mister_X 8y agoOh, a "friend" at work, huh? Because nobody but someone who's worked in the business is likely to use or know what a butt-set is. Hey, these days, if you say you want to show a new phone guy your butt-set, he thinks your gay and hitting on him, crazy! One service tech complained to his boss about me, who later told me (small town) that he had to explain to the guy what a butt-set was and that I wasn't hitting on him, I was just making small talk.
- rootsudo 8y agoOne day I was skipping school and talked to a a linesman about beigeboxing and he was surprised I even know what It was as this was circa 2001 before 9/11. I just red an article about mitnick in 2600 or something similar, probably off gamefaqs. He gave me a complete tour of how to open the panelbox, how to wire RJ11, and numbers to call and troubleshoot and an spare broken unit he had. It wasn't really broken, one of the aligator clips just needed to be soldered -- Fun times then, this was also back when I was getting free hours via NetZero/AOL And they did some simple ANI blocking per day or something.