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  1. Re:Risk by Muad'Dave · · Score: 1 · on Radio Waves Can Be Used To Hijack Androids and iPhones Via Siri and Google Now

    No, but she can dial a $50/min phone number and run your bill up pretty quickly. Even innocuous-looking area codes can be costly - the Cayman Islands can be called from the US just like any other area code; in this case, 345. A call to 1-345-555-1212 looks like it would be covered under free 'long distance', right? Not. All of the entries of the form '1-xxx' in this table are lurking as costly international calls form the US.

  2. Ooh, maybe they should sieze by MobyDisk · · Score: 1 · on Countries Don't Own Their Internet Domains, ICANN Says

    Perhaps they should try to sieze their country codes instead!

  3. Re:So you'd prefer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on UK To Give Peer-Reviewed Science Libel Protection

    What is NA? Nambia? Or do you mean AN? In the US you can sue for anything. My understanding is there is something more to UK law than what you describe.

  4. Re:So you'd prefer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on UK To Give Peer-Reviewed Science Libel Protection

    What is NA? Nambia? Or do you mean AN? In the US you can sue for anything. My understanding is there is something more to UK law than what you describe.

  5. Re:no phone numbers in antartic by pookemon · · Score: 5, Informative · on Mobile Game Trojan Calls the South Pole

    I originally modded you up - and then I did a search of my own.

    http://countrycode.org/antarctica

    Seems Wikipedia is not right about everything - go figure.

  6. Re:One really has to wonder... by JWSmythe · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Mobile Game Trojan Calls the South Pole

        You know, I was curious about this too. I found this page which shows there to be no phones (land lines nor cell) in the Antarctic. Wikipedia has a reference to calls being relayed over HAM radio only. They also mention that Scott Base does have a satellite relay for telephone calls. It seems they do have a country code assigned (672), so I'd suspect that someone got a number assigned, regardless of the fact that they aren't really there.

        What I don't exactly see is how they're profiting off the number. I know some long distance calls act as premium rate numbers (like dialing a 900 number in the US), where a profit can be had from the initial connection and the minutes on the maintained connection. It should be a simple matter to follow the money back to the source of the problem, and prosecute them accordingly. It's becoming rare that pranks like this are done just as pranks. There's usually a financial interest in it.