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Among the many things a DATU can do are:
  • Make certain electrical connections, such as shorting a line's tip to ring, tip to ground, or ring to ground.

  • Play certain tones on the line ( High Tone , Low Tone ) to test the line's audio circuit.

  • Monitor the audio circuit on the line if it is in use (though this only provides a scrambled rendition of the line's audio circuit for privacy and security reasons).

  • Create and modify certain variables such as counters and timers on the CO switch, as well as adding and modifying exchanges.

  • Remove a line from Permanent Signal holding state.


DATU's are primarily non-published numbers, though they usually have the phone number XXX-9935 (where XXX represents the local exchange). They are password protected for security, though many telcos leave the default password of 1111 set.

In July of 2004 , New York Phone Phreak William Quinn a.k.a. "decoder" was arrested and charged with accessing Verizon 's DATU numbers on over 100 occasions. Verizon subsequently claimed in press releases that it spent $120,000 to change the passwords on all the DATU numbers (which should have been changed from default in the first place).


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