Re: [LUG] Webring (OT: modem sounds)

[Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/05/18 22:19, mr meowski wrote:

On 29/05/18 21:34, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:

On Tue, May 29, 2018, 20:05 Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Do we have to emulate v90 modems with audible handshake for 20 seconds before anything works? You realize that was because no one read the manual to find the code to disable the sound...

ATM0

I always advised people to leave the sounds on. After a while you're become accustomed to the "normal" sounds you'd hear on dialling up, and if their machine had been compromised with something that changed the number they were dialling, they'd know something was up because it would sound different.

Grant. :)

Even more [OT] but what seems like a very long time ago I was a phone phreaker way before I got access to computers. That's a lost world now in the era of digital exchanges and VOIP but if you want a window into it this is one of my favourite websites of all time. Warning: many, many hours can be effortlessly written off at the following link:

http://www.evan-doorbell.com/

Cheers

+++ATH0

So far OT you'd have trouble seeing it with the Hubble Telescope ;)

When I worked in ISP Tech Support very occasionally a customer would annoy a tech, and in an unprofessional fit of irritation they would *cough* advise *cough* them to change their modem init string. A few times I had customers call who could not connect, and during diagnostics I would find an init string of AT&F0FF or AT&FU2 etc. Of course I would correct it quickly before the customer thought too long and worked it out.

Also OT. One friend said with scam callers he asks 'How did you get this number? This is a secure line!' He fakes covering the handset and calls 'Dave trace this call!' Then he plays a recording of a dialup modem. The call usually ends abruptly :)

Julian

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