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More Holes Found in T-Mobile Website
mogwhat writes "Even though T-Mobile's website was decisively hacked into over a year ago by now (in)famous cracker Nick Jacobsen, a blog posting by computer security expert Jack Koziol details many serious security holes in various T-Mobile websites. You would think that T-Mobile would have paid attention the first time? Time to get a new cell phone provider!"
The issue is that when Nick Jacobson owned T-Mobile's website, he used that to gain access to their entire network -- every picture sent or recieved, every text message, possibly even phone calls. He owned a good portion of the company.
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Traditional Landline companies take customer privacy very seriously (at least the ones I worked for) but the new technologies - Mobility, cell, internet divisions/companies always seemed to be playing fast and loose with phone company policy. Very frustrating from the landline side of the house. Not that the landline divisions are much more secure but at least they generally have the right attitude to security.
The rock, the vulture, and the chain
T-Mobile is a german company. Originally it was called "Telekom" which is short for "Telecommunication", then they split up their departments into T-Com (responsible for telephone services), T-Onlien (ISP services), T-Systems (business solutions) and T-Mobile (mobile communication). They just kept the name when buying themselves into the US market.