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It would be cool if you knew what you were talking about. From the horse's mouth!

$0.0025/message = $0.025/10 messages = $0.25/100 messages = $2.50/1000 messages

You can extrapolate from there, but no, it's literally $2.50 to send a thousand fucking messages so I'll say it again: Big fucking deal, shut the fuck up and get over yourself, faggot.

The problem is *not* that Verizon has decided to go after one particular School SMS provider.

Rather, Verizon has decided to charge bulk SMS providers (in this case, Twilio) a per-text-message fee. This fee is said to help pay for Verizon's anti-spam efforts.

Twilio then decided to pass this fee to customers in the exact amount Verizon charged.

Two other providers in Canada (Rogers & Bell) already charge Twilio similar fees, and other carriers are expected to do so soon.

Remind just happens to be a Twilio customer. But all Twilio customers {and customers of similar SMS services} are affected.

Twilio, VOIP.ms, and other VOIP providers can provide you with cheap (global) phone numbers for around $1 USD per month.

Personally I use VOIP for my business, both a local and Toll Free number.

SMS? This is an apple script exploit on a mac PC. not a mobile device. Nowhere does the article explain that SMS is an attack vector and unless iOS is vulnerable as well,I do not see how it could be.

Actually, if you watch the video, the only thing you can really see is that Malicious App sends a SMS with the password it "stole" - via Twillo obviously: https://www.twilio.com/sms. But hey, clickbait is clickbait - and it worked. Oh, did it work.

Use one of the N services that does SMS. You will have to pay for it.

Twilio is one provider that provides this service.

I sure hope his hack is free/open-source.

He's using Twilio. Twilio is not free for him (with the amount of phone traffic he's generating). Somebody has to pay for the service, whether the customer ultimately ends up paying for it, or the service is being monetized by advertisements, or a phone company decides to pay for the service as a value-added service that they pass to their own customers. The source code itself is nothing special. The idea itself isn't even new. This guy just happened to have entered a contest/hackathon sponsored by the FTC.

For white listing phone calls, google voice (integrated with Sprint) is actually pretty good. If you're looking to combine both white listing and shared black listing at the same time, there are many other startups that are offering that kind of service as well. With cloud services like Twilio or Voxeo, it's fairly easy for just one developer, or a small startup, to get into the telephony business.

I've been looking for an excuse to use http://www.twilio.com/ for a while now. How about instead of text messages I have twilio call you and tell you about the shark situation in its creepy robot text-to-speech voice?

HacDC, the Washington, DC hackerspace had a similar launch this past summer: See the two links below for details. http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/HacDC_Spaceblimp http://blog.twilio.com/2010/08/twilio-in-space-powers-hacdc-space-blimp-tracking.html

Google relies on Twilio for their audio transcription.