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IT Phone Home: How To Run Up A $20K Bill In Two Days And Get Away With It By Blaming Cisco

The Register, March 20th, 2023

Gentle reader, once again it is time to cushion your landing into the working week with Who, Me? - The Register's weekly chronicle of people having a worse day than you. Hopefully.

This week meet a man we'll Regomize as "Elliot" whose story comes from a long-ago almost forgotten time when ISDN was the latest and greatest way to send data long distances at speed.

A refresher: ISDN was often mocked as standing for "Integrated Still Don't kNow, but the Integrated Services Digital Network offered blazing-fast speeds up to 128 kilobits per second. Yes, per second. Can you even believe such a magnificent thing was posisble?

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