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IP: "Incompatible software" blamed for phone-book fiasco : Risks Digest 20.90
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 01:19:18 -0700
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 11:39:08 PDT From: "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann () csl sri com> Subject: "Incompatible software" blamed for phone-book fiasco Pacific Bell has apparently printed 400,000 new phone books that include names, phone numbers, and addresses of telephone customers who are supposed to be unlisted. The California state public utilities commission has granted a request from Cox Communications for a restraining order against Pac*Bell. Incompatible software is blamed, but perhaps it was human error in forgetting to remove the protected fields from a retrieval request? Perhaps one of our RISKS-reading insiders can enlighten us.
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