Re:Area code 710
by casefields on Saturday June 10, 2017 @05:19PM
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More info on Wireless Priority Service(WPS): https://www.fcc.gov/general/wireless-priority-service-wps
Unsure if you can answer this, but this info is not utterly impossible to find by trial and error, so it's not concretely private.
Are you saying there's more than one 710 number? [Just Y/N]
Someone posted a reply to my comment a few minutes ago then deleted it. Proof: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14531411 / http://i.imgur.com/HcU8NgS.png - yes, looks like Arc completely hides newly-posted-then-deleted comments, very probably for aesthetic reasons.
In a nice bit of timing, HN Replies (my HN notifier) grabbed the comment before it was deleted! It was interesting, so I'm anonymously adding it below:
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> I have seen first hand a large VoIP carrier reach out to an ITSP because one of their end subscribers was scanning the 710 number space either manually or not. And it was within a few minutes after the scan started. This type of activity (and others too) will set off all kinds of alarms at phone providers.
Re:Area code 710
by nodesocket on Saturday June 10, 2017 @05:14PM
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Are you a fire/police chief or in command of some public safety entity?
No, but I do work on what is considered critical infrastructure.
Re:Area code 710
by akhilcacharya on Saturday June 10, 2017 @05:52PM
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Power grid?
I assume the poster is intentionally not revealing their role. While I am also curious, having known people working in the defense industry, it's considered polite to not ask questions to things they aren't offering information about.
Well this is the internet, where we all have no way of sussing out subtle cultural differences between ourselves off a username. I say let the questions be asked, it causes no harm here.
Then it's weird to reveal that kind of connection on HN, a website about sharing links to sites in order to inform and teach the readers.
Re:Area code 710
by akhilcacharya on Saturday June 10, 2017 @09:54PM
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Then why the hell even discuss it?
Re:Area code 710
by KevinIsMyName on Saturday June 10, 2017 @09:24PM
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The OP did not mention it on purpose. Let it be like that. A lot of people here have signed NDA's.
Just guessing from his/her previous submissions, but maybe something to do with DNS? Root servers? Something similar, maybe.
You can get these for all sorts of stuff. Not just secret squirrel things.
Running a critical network, supporting critical application, leadership of organizations that impact health and safety, key personnel at hospitals, etc.
There is also another service called WPS for cell phones where you get priority just by prefixing your number with *272, the only catch there is your specific phone needs to be enrolled.