In 1994, you could use a cellphone without service to access the Bell Atlantic Mobile Network corporate voicemail. This is a tour of how it was accessed, the features of the VM system, customer service, and starting at 5:00, mail from the security department's boxes. Remember, this is decades old, the FBI agents and police detectives are probably retired now, and the phone numbers no longer active.

The message from the woman who demanded they "explain this NOW!!!" was in every single mailbox on the system - I assume everyone forwarded it to everyone so that the matter could be resolved. Or maybe they just found it really funny.

Unfortunately, the end of the recording was supposed to be accessing the automated customer billing system [press 2], but it was offline and just rang endlessly. I did later get into Kathy S's account, because all you needed was the account and phone numbers. Her balance was over $5000. I did capture that, but I gave the tape [labelled only "EG"] with this and that to Emmanuel Goldstein at the first Hope Conference in 1994, and it is no doubt still being studied by top minds.

BobKitten

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