On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:44:57 +0200, Pavel Kankovsky said: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, musnt live wrote: > > > Performing security research and disclosure of projects over 8 years > > old is stupid [...] > > If people spent more time studying mistakes made 8 years ago (or even > more than 50 years ago (*)) they would not repeat them today as > often as they do. > > (*) In-band signalling in telephone networks. Feel free to elucidate a *feasible* way to have deployed out-of-band signaling on the installed copper-pair base back then. Also, compare the *actual* costs and losses due to phreakers snagging free service due to in-band signaling to the eventual cost of upgrading every single central office to something that supported out-of-band. Maybe those bell-heads weren't so dumb...
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