[VOIPSEC] When Convienence/Obscurity Goes Wrong

[Klaus Darilion]

Dustin D. Trammell schrieb:
> "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 (:

Is it really the case that termination fees do change that fast, and 
that you negotiate termination fees on the phone?

klaus