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Phreaking Not Dead Yet

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the red-box-blue-box-beige-box-new-box dept.

santos_douglas writes "From Wired comes this article about an exploit involving weak voicemail passwords and automated voice recognition systems for accepting collect calls. The providers involved, SBC and AT&T, don't seem too concerned about their customers receiving tens of thousands in fraudulant charges from places like Saudi Arabia and the Phillipines."

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  1. Social engineering more than phreaking by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 5, Insightful

    IMHO, this is more social engineering scam than phreaking. The telephone network is still operating perfectly normally, and the folks doing the hack aren't using any extra-ordinary control over the network.
    Interesting read, just the same.

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