Sundays I like to sleep in until 10. But I'm not today. It's 8:30 now, not 10. And I can't fall back to sleep, because I've moved around too much.
At about quarter after eight, I was rolling around on my bed when I heard my door crack open a bit, then close. I heard this, but decided to stay snoozing.
Two minutes later, my mom comes into the room and says, "Rob, 911's here, but you've been asleep, you didn't dial did you?"
I hadn't. But I crawled out of bed to see a cop at my front door checking things out. Saying they got a call ten minutes ago from my line. We have two phone numbers, the one with the DSL did it.
The 911 guy (who I assumed was a cop, I was too sleepy and dumb to look at his uniform, but he was packing heat), said that something happened with a guy not long ago and they think it was the internet. "Something about email or something, but I don't know that stuff, so I can't say".
This made me think, yesterday morning at about the same time, my phone woke me up by making a strange ringing noise. It 'blipped' once, and then 30 seconds later, 'blipped' again. I don't know any more about phones than that guy knows about the internet, but that DSL line also rang a few times last summer and I answered to find a strange noise (not a modem handshaking). But my phone actually calling somebody seems a little strange. Has anybody heard of this? We're calling Island Tel tomorrow to see if they've ever heard of this or if they'll tell us we actually dialed the number without knowing.
I think I'm tired again, I'm going back for another hour.
Comments
Andrew - June 24, 2001 12:14 PM
I have heard of this, and it some what happend to me, about every day or so my phone rings and no one is there, then i here like a hum and then nothing then a dialtone... i am guessing its the dsl modem doing it, but we only have the 1 line int he house, phone/adsl running on the same line...
I was reading an artical about a virus that can make your dsl dial to a number some how, and i have no idea how it could make it do it, but i am going by what i was reading... Any how i suggest you flip out to islandtel because you could have been in alot of shit with the police for the crank call so they think it was...
Stupid islandtel, they got every thing all messed up and wired every witch way... i can see there network on phones and internet messing up big time soon!
Rob - June 24, 2001 4:37 PM
Really? You don't remember where you read this article about the DSL dial out crack, do you? I'd like to see it. I mean 911 is a pretty distinct number to dial, hardly random. Although, if it was always dialing random numbers, statistically it will hit 911 before any seven digit phone number.<P><P>(ps. Nice to see you migrate over from Dizzy Block Andrew.)
smartin - June 24, 2001 6:21 PM
I've noticed a decline in island tel's 'high speed internet' 's actual speed lately...been laggy on transfers and such.
Rob, mebbe you were h4x0r3d by some k-r4d d00d...
heh
or probably not
on an unrelated note, those of you who read /. , have you noticed that the page has been down for more than 24hrs now?
Steven Garrity - June 24, 2001 8:35 PM
re: slashdot
yeah, they had a router meltdown.