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FEMA Phones Hacked, Calls Made To Mideast and Asia
purplehayes writes "A hacker broke into a Homeland Security Department telephone system over the weekend and racked up about $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia.
The hacker made more than 400 calls on a Federal Emergency Management Agency voicemail system in Emmitsburg, Md., on Saturday and Sunday, according to FEMA spokesman Tom Olshanski."
The hacker was in New Orleans. So they were obligated by official policy to ignore his calls.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
He used a whistle found in a cereal box.
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He kept calling that damned annoying Verizon guy.
"You're in Thailand now? Can you hear me now?"
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No, he trained his dog to howl at 2600 hz.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
400 calls totalling $12,000.
That is, about $30 per call.
And from the article: "Most of the calls were about three minutes long, but some were as long as 10 minutes."
As long as 10 minutes? Not only did FEMA have a badly configured phone system, they must have had some of the crappiest call plans I could possibly imagine. I mean, where were the calls terminating? The moon?
Your tax dollars at work.
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So he doesn't have a Skype account?
Pfft! Who needs Skype when you have the FEMA Phone! Yes! With the FEMA Phone you can call anywhere in the World for FREE! And if you act now, you can get your own FEMA Trailer for Free!
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I'm sure there's a flaw in that theory, but I just can't put my finger on it.
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