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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. heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    my old school let us make long distance kphone calls by simply dialing their number fisrt then hit 11 ^_^

  2. Shut up, you bastards. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nothing's dead unless it's dead within your own stupid brains. Slashdot dirties everything it touches.