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There may be secrets in that audio - actual passwords and whatnot.
Might be a fun follow-up to try and decode whatever's in there.
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Might be a fun follow-up to try and decode whatever's in there.
didn’t have much luck with multiple baud rates and modulations on minimodem, no discernible ascii, but someone might have more luck looking at the binary output
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didn’t have much luck with multiple baud rates and modulations on minimodem, no discernible ascii, but someone might have more luck looking at the binary output
It wouldn't be encoded in a modem protocol. If that's indeed binary data, then most likely we're hearing binary data interpreted as being PCM wave data.
Long ago I got a Psion Series 5. One feature was that it could dial a phone number (output the DTMF) for you. Messing around I've day I realized a contact could have a very long phone number. This was also back in the day when answering machines existed and many had a 2 digit code you could punch in to get into the menu from the outside line. My contact called Answering Machine had a very long phone number that got m…
Back when international phone calls were a real thing, messing with answering machines that had default settings was a typical fraud vector. People would change the message to say 'I accept' a couple dozen times. Then, they'd lace a collect call with a third party payer, pointed at said answering machine... which accepted the charges. Just not best done from one's home phone, as sufficient charges pointing to the sam…
Why is it beneficial to call an answering machine and have its owners pay for it?
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Back when international phone calls were a real thing, messing with answering machines that had default settings was a typical fraud vector. People would change the message to say 'I accept' a couple dozen times. Then, they'd lace a collect call with a third party payer, pointed at said answering machine... which accepted the charges. Just not best done from one's home phone, as sufficient charges pointing to the sam…
I don't understand. A collect call (in The Netherlands) would just move the costs of the call to the reciever. Why is it beneficial to call an answering machine and have its owners pay for it?
I like how they can animate their posts in this cohost social networking site. (See the transcript section)
EDIT: I'm getting downvoted. I think people have gone to prison for a lot less than this, at least in the US, please be careful and playfulness is not a legal defense