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Mysteries of the Las Vegas Telecom System

Posted by michael on from the your-call-cannot-be-completed-as-dialed dept.

Reverend Raven writes "This is from Security Focus and deals with how some people believe a group of uber-hackers controls the Vegas telecom system. Interesting read, indeed." A follow-up to this old story. The case seems to be still winding its way through the bureaucracy.

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  1. Oh crap! by xpurple · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've been found out, time to move to montana...

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  2. Bring your cell phone... by Ironpoint · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Phone calls in xome Vegas Hotels can run about $20 / min.

  3. Kevin Free by rjamestaylor · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I was all settled into my overstuffed leather chair ready to read about a hacking conspiracy in Las Vegas and -- BAM! -- out of the blue I'm broadsided with reference to über Hacker Kevin Mitnick.

    Can't a guy get a break? Surely there's a hacking story out there that doesn't mention Kevin Mitnick. Isn't there?

    Anyway, did the cretins who run these prostitution rings ever think that just perhaps word got out that their girls were all used up? Why is it that a business people are more apt to blame a WILD-EYED CONSPIRACY THEORY instead of accepting the market's decision to cut them out of the loop? It's like die-hard Catholics blaming the Devil for all the slander against their holy priests and other dwellers of the demonic branches of the tree of deformity (see Matt 13 for a description of the annual herb that becomes a perennial roosting place for the demons). Pure self-delusion.

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