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Hack AT&T Voicemail With Android
An anonymous reader writes "It is shockingly easy to gain access to an AT&T customer's voicemail using caller ID spoofing techniques. What's worse is that AT&T knows about it. On your Android phone, download one of the two caller ID spoofing programs. Input the number of your target as the destination number and then enter the same number as the spoofed caller ID. Then connect your call. If the target has not added a voicemail password (the default is no password), you will be dropped into a random menu of their voicemail and eventually can drill up or down to get what you want. You can change greetings, erase messages, send voicemails out of the target account, and much more. How many politicians up in arms about Google Wi-Fi sniffing will want to know more about this?"
without a password voicemail should only accept connections from the owners phone.
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It's the damn phone company. If it's a landline, you mean to tell me they can't see what circuit it's coming from all the way back to your house?
If it's a cell, likewise - there are cell specific identifiers. namely the SIM details...
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He's got a point. Why can't voice mail run over some data connection authenticated by the phone's unique ID or something similar? They certainly do billing that way. It is 2010, and voice mail still works by having the phone call out to a magic number- how antiquated!
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heya,
Look, I don't think the parent means you deserve it, in some grand-cosmic karma scheme or something.
I think what he's referring to is that, well, you have to take responsibility for securing your belongings.
It's simple common-sense. In Australia, if I leave my car unlocked in a car-park, and then come back to find my stuff inside gone, if I go to the police and report it, I doubt they'll have a lot of sympathy for me. They'll probably write me off as an idiot - and rightly so. Everybody makes mistakes, but sometimes *touch wood* you have to take responsibiltiy for them.
So while the story about your wife and you being burglarised is sad - ultimately you're adults, you have to take responsibility for your own mistakes. In this case, it was forgetting to lock the doors. That's not to say theft isn't wrong, but I think it's sad how people today don't seem to want to take responsibility for themselves.
It's like those kids who come out crying, boo-hoo, I'm pregnant, my life is ruined, blah blah blah. Well, whoop-de-doo, you chose to have intercourse, who's fault is that? And you chose to do it without using contraception, even smarter. Idiots.
Cheers,
Victor
How many people even know to put a password on their cellphone voicemail?
I wouldn't expect to need to, since I was never asked for one in the first place nor did any instructions or guidance tell me otherwise.
-David
One is a revenue center, the other is a cost center. I think we can guess which one is further on the ball?