Post by account_disabled on Mar 14, 2024 8:01:12 GMT
We are talking about more serious cases of abnormal exploitation of telephone networks by advanced Soviet citizens. When starting my research I of course took into account two important factors. First at the turn of the seventies and eighties the equipment of domestic telephone exchanges was still noticeably inferior to foreign ones. If in the United States the development of telecommunications technologies was at least spurred by the competition of telephone companies then in the Union with its planned economy hardware in some places could wait decades for modernization.
I remember that after graduating from the institute I briefly got a job as a communications engineer at a Buy Email List plant and it turned out that the crossover of the local automatic telephone exchange dated back to the times of the cult of personality. I had never seen such equipment even in a museum although I was very familiar with the concept of a decadestep finder. The second factor is that telephone communications have historically been a subject of increased attention on the part of the KGB of the USSR and this organization had the opportunity topranks than telephone phreaking.
What in America was considered hooliganism or causing financial damage to a telephone company in our country could well amount to a more serious state crime with all the ensuing consequences. In addition personal telephones were for a long time inaccessible to many citizens with the possible exception of residents of Moscow and Leningrad and even there not every apartment had a telephone line. Instead they had to use street payphones or call centers at the nearest post office. Much more often we heard about any incidents.
I remember that after graduating from the institute I briefly got a job as a communications engineer at a Buy Email List plant and it turned out that the crossover of the local automatic telephone exchange dated back to the times of the cult of personality. I had never seen such equipment even in a museum although I was very familiar with the concept of a decadestep finder. The second factor is that telephone communications have historically been a subject of increased attention on the part of the KGB of the USSR and this organization had the opportunity topranks than telephone phreaking.
What in America was considered hooliganism or causing financial damage to a telephone company in our country could well amount to a more serious state crime with all the ensuing consequences. In addition personal telephones were for a long time inaccessible to many citizens with the possible exception of residents of Moscow and Leningrad and even there not every apartment had a telephone line. Instead they had to use street payphones or call centers at the nearest post office. Much more often we heard about any incidents.