[VOIPSEC] When Convienence/Obscurity Goes Wrong

[Dustin D. Trammell]

"We had to make 5M that night to break even for the year (we were
already in the red). We expected to make closer to 50M. We actually made
about -30M. Let me write that out for you: One ass-hat residential
customer with a 20yo telephone with four extra buttons did thirty
million dollars in damages in less than one night.

Anyways, that's how the company went bankrupt in late 2001 and about
6000 or so people in the Ft Lauderdale area all got laid off. :("

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7vvti/what_on_gods_green_earth_gets_a_fucking_pl7/c07k5nn

Perhaps they should have just had their line techs memorize the NOC's
phone number... or carry an address book (:

-- 
Dustin D. Trammell
Security Researcher
BreakingPoint Systems, Inc.