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Christian said, but when they picked it up an agent was waiting with the UPS
deliveryman.
John Martin Howard, 21, 5788 Meadowview Drive, Milford was cited before U.S.
magistrate J. Vincent Aug Jr., who accepted his plead to guilty Monday and
released him on his promise to return when summoned.
"I was uneasy about the pickup," Howard recalled in a telephone interview. The
risk of getting caught "was in the back of my mind." And it was an awful
moment when the Secret Service agent confronted him and his juvenile buddy,
Howard added. "I think they were surprised," Christian said. Howard was
charged with attempted use of an unauthorized credit card. His juvenile
partner -- who refused to comment Tuesday -- was turned over to his parents.
Christian said the youths ordered equipment from Computer-Ability in suburban
Milwaukee paying with the stolen credit card. A sharp-eyed store employee
noted purchases on that credit card were coming in from all over the country
and called the Secret Service. Within two weeks the trap in Milford was set.
Howard said his young friend knew the Cincinnatian who led them to the
bulletin board filled with the names and the numbers of stolen credit cards.
"We got it from somebody who got it from somebody who got it from somebody on
the east coast," Howard recalled. That new acquaintance also boasted of using
stolen card numbers from electronic bulletin boards to buy expensive
accessories and reselling them locally at bargain process.
He and his friend used the stolen credit card to upgrade his Atari 800 system,
Howard said. "We ordered a bunch of hardware to use with it." In addition to
the purchase that drew the secret service to them, Howard said they "ordered
other stuff, but before we received anything, we were picked up." Howard said
he'd had the Atari about two years and was getting bored with it and home
computers in general.
He had taken computer programming for eight months after high school, he said,
but hadn't used it. He would like to try computer-aided design and
engineering, but right now, he's working in a pizza parlor. Christian said
Howard's parents had been enthusiastic about his computer interests and
friends who shared them. "They though it would keep them out of trouble."
Assistant U.S. attorney Kathleen Brinkman and Christian said the Cincinnati
area investigation was continuing and numerous juveniles, some quite young,
may be involved.
Thanks to Grey Elf
Re-typed for PWN into lowercase by Knight Lightning
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Hang On... Phone Rates Are Falling Again! March 1987
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>From Changing Times Magazine March 1987 Issue
No news that long-distance rates are still headed down, but now local rates
are poised to follow, at least in some areas.
Competing long-distance carriers have already been forced to react to AT&T's
January rate cut, which averaged 11.2%, with cuts of their own. Now the
Federal Communications Commission [FCC] may propose that an additional $1 or
$2 be added to the subscribers line charge, the $2-a-month access charge that
every residential customer pays. If that happens it would compensate.
Since AT&T's divestiture in January 1984, the telephone services component of
the consumer price index has risen 17.4%, reflecting a 36.7% increase in local
rates at the same time long-distance charges were falling. But price
increases for overall service have moderated each year, falling 2.7% in 1986
from 4.7% in 1985 and 9.2% in 1984. That trend should continue as local rates
stabilize and even fall. Wisconsin and Vermont, for example, have ordered
local companies to make refunds, and a number of states - New York,
Pennsylvania, Washington - are considering lowering rates to reflect the
improved financial position of local phone companies. Those companies will
benefit from tax reform, and lower inflation and interest rates have resulted
in lower expenses in several other areas.
Things are not looking good for some of AT&T's competitors in the long
distance business, however. Forced to follow AT&T's rate cuts, both MCI and
US Sprint are hard-pressed financially, and analysts don't rule out the
possibility that one or both could get out of the long-distance business,
potentially leaving AT&T a monopoly again. But that would be "politically
unacceptable," says analyst Charles Nichols of E.F. Hutton. Some
alternatives: allowing regional phone companies to enter the long-distance
business or allowing AT&T to keep more of the profits it earns from increased
efficiency instead of forcing the company to cut rates. That would take some
pressure off competitors.
Special Thanks to Stingray
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Police Arrest Computer "Hacker" Suspect March 15, 1987
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>From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"MCI told police it was losing $2.7 million a month to such 'hackers.'"
A computer software engineer [Robert Wong] has been arrested at his home in
Maryland Heights, Missouri on suspicion of trying to get into the computer
system of MCI Telecommunications Corporation.
The case is the fourth in this area involving computer "hackers" who have
tried in recent months to get into MCI's computer system, police say.
Detective John Wachter of the Maryland Heights Police Department said the