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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Need help identifying something weird (bernieS)
2. Re: Need help identifying something weird (Gil woodside)
3. Re: Need help identifying something weird (E.J. Caylor)
4. Re: Need help identifying something weird (s.ulrich)
5. Re: Need help identifying something weird (Zack Widup)
6. Re: Need help identifying something weird (Zack Widup)
7. Re: Need help identifying something weird (Jeff Wilson)
8. Re: Need help identifying something weird (Zack Widup)
9. RE: Need help identifying something weird (Douglas Snow)
10. Re: Need help identifying something weird (J. Random Entity)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 13:25:40 -0400
From: bernieS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Spooks] Need help identifying something weird
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good idea, kurt...
-bernieS
At 02:46 PM 5/11/06 -0700, you wrote:
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Someone should ask the guys at 2600.
Kurt
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 13:25:54 -0400
From: "Gil woodside" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Spooks] Need help identifying something weird
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According to an Internet search of that area code its New York City.
Famous
landmarks included in that area are:
Radio City
Rockefeller Plaza
World Trade Center
Various NY State Agencies
Interesting......very interesting.......
Gil
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according to recent press reports, NSA has been doing traffic analysis on
calls to this telephone number...and on all the telephone numbers of
people on this list...and on all other americans' telephone traffic!
talk about spooky...
-ed
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Thanks for the MP3, Jeff.
I called this morning and listened to it. It does sound a bit
weird...the recording isn't of a good quality to start with.
I definitely tried to place the music and i'm stumped. It sounds
pretty much like a looped segment from a 50's or 60's musical.
It is mystifying, to say the least. I wonder what motivation is behind
this.
Maybe just someone fooling around and having a blast about it.
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How about "Landline"? I was thinking about "Poor Man's Numbers Station"
but the phone calls aren't cheap. I used a calling card at the rate of
3
cents a minute, but if I'd used my regular phone or dialed from overseas
it would've been a lot more.
I couldn't quite place the music, either. It's there in the cobwebs
though ...
Zack
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Jeff Wilson wrote:
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> We need a nickname for this. Any suggestions? I can't quite place the
music.
>
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 13:44:54 -0400
From: "E.J. Caylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I've been doing some searching on the central office that number is
allocated to. The only address I've been able to get out of it is 32
Old Slip in Queens. Mapquest shows it near the southern tip of
Manhattan Island. Another has it as comming from a different central
office, this one on W. 10th. There is a company, RNK, Inc.,(RNK
Telecom) that has the 212-796-0 number, but there is no other info for
them. Perhaps a test number?
E.J. Caylor
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:03:21 -0700
From: "s.ulrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Actually the first thing I thought of (other than Twelve Monkeys) was
some kind of smaller "operation" without the resources that
governments/spys might have, for example drug runners.
Doing it via phone means you can set up the whole thing by remote - you
don't need to put up antennas and transmitters and such, so both the
sending and recieving party could be anywhere in the world. It would be
less secure in the long run as records could be traced, but if whatever
you're doing is short-term, this wouldn't matter. Its not too hard to
set up a phone number with fake or stolen information, and the rest
could have been set up from a coffee shop/internet cafe anywhere...
Or the whole thing is just a prank.
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I've been doing some searching on the central office that number is
allocated to. The only address I've been able to get out of it is 32
Old Slip in Queens. Mapquest shows it near the southern tip of
Manhattan Island. Another has it as comming from a different central
office, this one on W. 10th. There is a company, RNK, Inc.,(RNK
Telecom) that has the 212-796-0 number, but there is no other info for
them. Perhaps a test number?
E.J. Caylor
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 13:04:29 -0500 (CDT)
From: Zack Widup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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That could be. Area code 212 is New York City.
Zack
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> Maybe just someone fooling around and having a blast about it.
It's such a great idea for a conceptual art project that I wish I'd
thought
of it. That 212 number wouldn't happen to go to Soho would it? :-)
-hugh
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 13:08:31 -0500 (CDT)
From: Zack Widup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I called it using a generic calling card. When I call someone with caller
ID, my call usually comes up "Georgia call". Maybe they have ways of
tracing it that is beyond the system.
That said, if they're monitoring this list they know I called it. :-)
Has anyone tried to decode it yet? Where's my Little Orphan Annie decoder
ring?
73, Zack
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according to recent press reports, NSA has been doing traffic analysis on
calls to this telephone number...and on all the telephone numbers of
people
on this list...and on all other americans' telephone traffic!
talk about spooky...
-ed
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:12:20 -0700
From: "Jeff Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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If it is a real clandestine message, it's probably a one-time cipher
pad, just like the ones the real spynumbers stations use.
I'm going to do some more searches. Our best data comes from the
craigslist ad, sparse as it is.
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I called it using a generic calling card. When I call someone with
caller
ID, my call usually comes up "Georgia call". Maybe they have ways of
tracing it that is beyond the system.
That said, if they're monitoring this list they know I called it. :-)
Has anyone tried to decode it yet? Where's my Little Orphan Annie
decoder
ring?
73, Zack
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Ed wrote:
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> according to recent press reports, NSA has been doing traffic analysis
> on
> calls to this telephone number...and on all the telephone numbers of
> people
> on this list...and on all other americans' telephone traffic!
>
> talk about spooky...
>
> -ed
>
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 13:23:02 -0500 (CDT)
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Actually the first thing I thought of (other than Twelve Monkeys) was
some kind of smaller "operation" without the resources that
governments/spys might have, for example drug runners.
Doing it via phone means you can set up the whole thing by remote - you
don't need to put up antennas and transmitters and such, so both the
sending and recieving party could be anywhere in the world. It would be
less secure in the long run as records could be traced, but if whatever
you're doing is short-term, this wouldn't matter. Its not too hard to
set up a phone number with fake or stolen information, and the rest
could have been set up from a coffee shop/internet cafe anywhere...
Or the whole thing is just a prank.
Why broadcast it to the world if it's something serious (or even
semi-serious)? Putting it on a message board is bound to get a lot of
attention!
I suspect either a prank or someone is trying to observe something about
people or groups.
Maybe when it's decoded it is going to say "Al Fansome check tire
pressure". :-)
73, Zack
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 14:23:32 -0500
From: "Douglas Snow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [Spooks] Need help identifying something weird
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RNK Inc could be RNK Telephone, a wholesale VoIP concern...
http://www.rnktel.com/
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I've been doing some searching on the central office that number is
allocated to. The only address I've been able to get out of it is 32
Old Slip in Queens. Mapquest shows it near the southern tip of
Manhattan Island. Another has it as comming from a different central
office, this one on W. 10th. There is a company, RNK, Inc.,(RNK
Telecom) that has the 212-796-0 number, but there is no other info for
them. Perhaps a test number?
E.J. Caylor
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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:42:56 -0700
From: "J. Random Entity" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Why broadcast it to the world if it's something serious (or even
semi-serious)? Putting it on a message board is bound to get a lot of
attention!
True... But by the same token, people scan shortwave looking for
stuff like this. Six of one, half-dozen of the other :)
Another idea we were kicking around was that with Internet access
being as ubiquitous as it is, a person being observed by a third party
using a laptop or going into an internet cafe wouldn't be as unusual
as a SW receiver. Also, there's the possibilty that the person the
message is intended for isn't necessarily in the US - so if you don't
have access to or the ability to operate a transmitter, the message
can still be picked up (and reception conditions would be less of a
concern).
I suspect either a prank or someone is trying to observe something about
people or groups.
Maybe when it's decoded it is going to say "Al Fansome check tire
pressure". :-)
I don't get the reference - is it related to
http://www.spynumbers.com/WBNY.html ? Definitely a possibility, I
guess.
John.
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