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2004-07-23 Europe

French authorities are investigating whether the Madrid train bombers hacked into the telephone exchange of a bank near Paris as they were planning their attack, say judicial sources. Prosecutors this month began a probe into a flurry of calls to Spain and Morocco from a bank in the Val-de-Marne area. The calls increased significantly in the days before the attack and stopped a few hours before the bombs ripped through a series of commuter trains on March 11, killing 191 people, according to the daily newspaper Le Parisien. Police have established that the calls were made by "phreaking" -- a practice similar to hacking that bypasses the charging system. The paper said Rabei Osman Ahmed es-Sayed, alias Mohamed the Egyptian, a suspect in the attacks who was arrested in Milan in June, spent several months in Val-de-Marne last year. The judicial sources said France's DST domestic intelligence service, which has already been ordered to investigate French connections to the attacks, was leading the latest inquiry.

Posted by TS(vice girl) 2004-07-23 2:25:26 PM|| || Front Page|| [14 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ah, old-fashioned phone phreaking. Too bad it was used for such an evil purpose. Phreaking was all about learning, and making as many free calls as you wanted, and changing the class of service on your enemies' phones to a pay phone or prison phone, so when they tried to make a call, they got a recording asking them to deposit money...into a home phone. Good times...

Posted by Gromky 2004-07-23 2:54:03 PM|| 2004-07-23 2:54:03 PM|| Front Page Top

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