RE: modem protective device?

From: Stephan Barnes (stephan.barnes@foundstone.com)
Date: 03/19/03

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    Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 13:26:45 -0800
    From: "Stephan Barnes" <stephan.barnes@foundstone.com>
    To: "Peter Van Epp" <vanepp@sfu.ca>, <pen-test@securityfocus.com>
    

    Peter,

    I think what you seek is Challenger TT

    http://www.cpscom.com/gprod/challtt.htm

    Happy War Dialing if that was not the case :)

    Stephan "M4phr1k" Barnes
    Stephan.Barnes@Foundstone.com

    http://www.m4phr1k.com

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Peter Van Epp [mailto:vanepp@sfu.ca]
    Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:50 AM
    To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
    Subject: modem protective device?

            While not strictly on topic, assuming they are still made this
    may be of interest to those of you concerned with modems and wardialing.
            Some 20 years ago in a previous life I had a modem protective
    device (a modem condom!) which fronted the modem on the phone line and
    when dialed supplied a sythisized voice which asked you to "enter your
    code". You then fed it a code via DTMF and it (if it liked your code)
    faked ring to the
    attached modem and then passed the call through when the modem answered.
    This
    is of course very good protection against war dialing (which is the
    pen-test
    relevance that I hope will get this through moderation :-)), since the
    war
    dialer gets a human (or semi human) voice not modem tones. The problem
    is that
    several google searches on "wardialing modem protection" in various
    combinations turn up lots of articles on war dialing but no references
    that I
    can see to the product that I want again. Does anyone know a source of
    such a product? I find it hard to believe that such a useful device has
    died out!

    Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support
    Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada

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