Posted on 06/29/2010 8:00:36 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier
"It is shockingly easy to gain access to an AT&T customer's voicemail using caller ID spoofing techniques. What's worse is that AT&T knows about it. On your Android phone, download one of the two caller ID spoofing programs. Input the number of your target as the destination number and then enter the same number as the spoofed caller ID. Then connect your call. If the target has not added a voicemail password (the default is no password), you will be dropped into a random menu of their voicemail and eventually can drill up or down to get what you want. You can change greetings, erase messages, send voicemails out of the target account, and much more. How many politicians up in arms about Google Wi-Fi sniffing will want to know more about this?"
Ping! AT&T blows it again; I wonder how many with AT&T phones (like an iPhone) will get hammered with this?
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This has been a long known issue with ATT voicemail. They have caller ID for convienience, but you see what that gets you.
Now that phone number spoofing is mainstream (thanks to VOIP applications), this is really going to explode into a problem...
I wish them well.
About all they’ll get is phone messages yet to be listened to from my Mom (always sounding upset because I never answer the phone) ragging me about how for blah-blah-blah reason I’ll never get married or about her latest argument with my younger brother over his lazy lifestyle.
Or the 5+ messages left a day from my gf complaining about her boss, her co-workers, her friends, her clothes, etc...
Knock yourself out L33t Haxors.
Anyone dumb enough not to have a password is asking for trouble.
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