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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Re:net 10

[Fulcrum of Evil]

You are truly ignorant if you think you're specifically immune to any terrorist attack.

I prefer the threat of terrorist attack to the current admin's reaction to it. Basically, they whip up a frenzy, piss us off for no reason, and constrain our rights, all with no end in sight. I live in Seattle, come bomb the bus tunnel or something.

Compared to many major cities, just how well are you protected?

I'm in Seattle.

You think a redneck attitude is going to keep you safe from people who have no clue what it means to be a redneck?

I'm a city boy with brass balls, thank you very much.

You're sorely mistaken and next in line for a Darwin Award for not thinking rationally and weighing your chances.

Did that. Bush and his stooges are a worse threat to my way of life than some yahoo with a pack of C4.

I've already been made aware of threats against me for wanting to send them back to the stone age with EMP bombs, and all of that thru my "protected friends-only" LJ posts.

Um, yeah. Can't bomb Afghanistan back to the stone age, that was last week. EMP bombs don't mean much to someone who showers when it rains. Fact is, the them are widely dispersed and not particularly discriminate in their targets. On the other hand, they aren't a real threat - their body count is dwarfed by accidental deaths due to water.

If you want to stop terror, stop making new terrorists. That simple.