Cell Phone Records for Sale

tabdelgawad writes "The Washington Post has a good writeup on how 'data brokers' use various techniques to obtain cell phone records of individuals then offer them for sale to anyone who will pay. The data is obtained by either bribing phone company employees, or 'pretexting', or accessing unregistered customer accounts online. Although phone companies are the only source of this information (unlike, say SSNs which are available from many sources), one Cingular spokesman was quoted as saying that this is 'an infinitesimally small problem'."

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Cell phone records

[Anonymous Coward]

Those are like mini-vinyl discs that you can plug into your phone for ringer tunes, right? I bet DJs will love them!

Incidentally, here is that spokesman's cell number

[Anonymous Coward]

(what a nice way that would have been to end the article...)

Re:Just offer chocolate for records.

[Anonymous Coward]

i will give you who knows what for 5lbs of chocolate.
thank you,

respected nigerian citizen.

Re:Here's a curious thing you can do with this

[gad_zuki!]

> These are likely to be influential people.

My god, its full of teenage girls.

Re:Be afraid, be VERY afraid

[DrunkenTerror]

I'd watch what I said about these really nice people, if I were you. :)

Re:It is a tiny problem for them

[k4_pacific]

Where can I buy this "foo" you speak of? Suddenly I want one now tha Bob and Brad have one.

infinitesimally

[Assmasher]

I do not think that word means what you think it means...