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    AT&T Chairman John deButts s~id 1973 was 'ta ~ood
    year for our business. We are now set~ng our sights for
    1974 with a view to mak$ng it even better. 1 Their i800 mil-
    tion net income was a piddl~ng 24~ above 1972's. Passing
    along an increase of 23{ to shareholders leaves $6. 3 mil-
    lion unaccounted for, eh John? . . . deButts also blasted
    interconnect companies who sell private phone systems to
    businesses, saying that the FCC should stop them before
    they tolally ruin ~ phone service. MeanwEile, Bell I=abs
    has developed a new improved key telephone due to compet-
    i~on from interconnect companies. . . The [llinois Supreme
    Court ordered Illinois Bell to stop using castomer's money
    for lobbying, executive's clob dues, charity contributions
    and other e~penses. . . General Telephone appears to be
    shaping up as a mouse with an elephant's appetite; from an
    ad for thetr new CAMA billing system by Automatic
    Electric, "~ming is precise to one second; your customer
    gets no free time due to ;n~ccaracy'~. And an ad for their
    new single-slot phone, "Simple strapping changes revlse
    local initial ~nl1;ng rates all the way up to 35}, in 5-cent
    increments. It's an easy fleld adJustment that only taXes
    about ten m~nutes. There's nothing extra to buy. Nothing
    
    o ins~ll. "Ihey're ~n~ng 9Ut leauem
    at schools showing a guy in ja~l for mak-
    ing free o~l~s, and they say, "We Imow
    
    most people are honest. But a few think it's clever to chent
    and steal. . tbet the phone company won't miss a few bucks;
    Tbet's why werre telling it l~e it is. Ihanks to modern
    electronics, ~t's easier tban ever to catch people who t~y
    to rip us off. And when we catch them, it can be a real bad
    trip. " TAP responds, "We know most people are honest.
    But a few think it's clever to cheat and steal. . . t~t the
    public won't miss a few billion bucks. That's why we're
    throwing in a few hip phrases to~lly out of conte~ Thar~
    to modern printing presses, itls easier than e~rer to expose
    corporations who t~ to rip us off. And when we expose
    them it really ca~ be a trip~'. Two GTE former district
    managers rh~rged tbst GTE fixed the~r books for the last
    10 years and the Ken~cky Public Service Commission has
    conclnded that it's '~likely". They can't tell for sure be-
    cause there's on~y one source of ~e "real" books~ GTEt
    The originals have ~robably been erased 5 times by now.
    DEAR TAP,
    I recently complained that my mail had been opened and
    resealed. I thought this was the phone co. or tfie post
    office. Well it's not, my own parents were opening my
    mail. They told me they respacred my privacy and would
    never do such a thing, well now I would like to warn
    anyone who has had their mail opened that it might not
    be Bell bot your own flesh and blood! Who said blood
    was thicker than water?
    
    I found some good literature you may be inro- A mag
    called Moneysworth. It tells how to ge many things
    wholesale and cheap. (Strictly legit). 5 bucks a year,
    write Moneysworth, 251 W. b7 St., N,Y.,N.Y. 10019.
    
    I'm sure some readers have ti.a old problem of find-
    ing other phreaks and if you think you know one yon
    just can't go up to them and ssy it, so some phreaks
    here hsve found a ~reat solution. When you ssy goodbye
    on the phone sey ba. This is the word bye but as if you
    hung up too fast, not completing the word. Try it.
    -CALIFORNIA-
    
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    246
    
    JAN.-FEB. 1974
    
    NO. 25
    
    TAP is no ~onger Technological Americen Party. TAP
    is TAP We are not a political party We do not advocatc
    anythlng, as an organizstion. All opinions are those of
    individua} readers and stsffpersons, and you may agree
    with them or not. There is, however, one policy of TAP;
    TAP ~;11 Drint technical information that is otherwise
    unsvellable or unclear. Information which could be of
    help to the most readers is printed first. Information
    which is il1egaL and dewoid of informational purpose
    doesn!t make it, and an example might be a printed
    cir~'it board or a parts list.
    
    TAP will soon publish information on lockpicking. As
    usaal, this is technical materia1 that is hard to learn
    elsewhere and ~s valuable for many readers. And it can
    be used to rip off ordinary people, so we hsve been
    aakad not to print it. Not one person who ever wrote in
    TAP wants to see individuals hurt with TAP information.
    Most would like to see corporations get i~ bad. So, we
    emphasize our opinions frequently as to where the energy
    should be aimed. If there are people reading TAP who do
    use their talents to hurt others, they probably don't
    need TAP to do it. If publishing lockpicking or anyching
    e'se encourages people to turn on esch other, we would
    not apologize. We would condemn society and hope that
    such people could be ~ovingly taught to respect others.
    
    Here is the recommended procedure for writing to TAP.
    
    -Don't send cash, don't send coins, send a Pos~1 Money
    Order. Save receipt but don't put yQur name on money or-
    der. Then it can't be traced like a reqular check.
    
    -Use enough postage, don't send postcards, scotch ~pe
    all se~ns on your envelope, and leave off your re~ name
    and rehrn address.

    





    
    -If nossible, drop o~ the letter at out malling a~dress.
    Dear TAP,
    People might check out Wm. Powell's The Anarchist Cook-
    book which is publ~shad by Lyle Stuart, Inc.,Z39 Park
    Ave,NYC }0003 ($5.95).Topics on drugs,electronics ~
    surveillance,explosives, booby traps and guns. Some
    of it is too slmplisticly explained, but it serves as
    a point of departure for the creative. A better section
    on weapons is Beat the beat($2.45, Berkeley Int'1 Lib.
    School, Ramparts Press, SF,Ca.) The firearms chapter
    substantially reprints "Firearms and Self-Defense"
    (1969) by ~he Int'1 Liberation School ~ Red Mountain
    Tribe,which had been distriboted by Juche and the White
    panthers.
    
    The most elegant syntheses ~ explanations of effects
    of drugs ~an be found in the Journal of the American
    Chemical Society. Most university libraries have it.
    If you know German, check out Beilstein in a chemistry
    library. For example, one can obrain purer and better
    TEC(Tetrahydrocannabinol) in the optically acCive form
    by synthesis than by extractionteg, from grass,hash,
    etc.).If you've gat business letterhead stationery or
    science dept. connections with a university you cen
    buy most necessary reagents directly from chemical sup-
    ply companies.
    
    An addendum to your note on page 1, Issue 24 is
    that anyone who is being prosecuted who feels that a
    possibility exists of illegal government activitdes
    in obtaining evidence (ie, without a court order) like
    opening mail or tspping lines should his~her attorney
    make a motion for diselosure of this and aak court for
    all logs of conversations and copies of letters, etc.
    Experience is that the goverament would rather dismisE
    a case than have it widely circulated threugh the media
    that it was engaging in illegal surveillance.
    
                ~YASSACHUSETTS
    
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