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?"

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Re:Ha!

[AK Marc]

You want to make the simple action of a user setting the CID information a criminal act regardless of the circumstances.

I have never said that. That assertion, unrelated to my claims, would be the issue of why you objecting.

It's simple. Do you think fraud should be illegal? Is lying for personal gain at someone else's expense fraud? Is passing untrue CID with the intent of deceiving someone a lie?

Answer those, and leave the insane assertions of what you think I really mean that's in direct contradiction to what I actually say. Go on, I dare you, actually answer the questions I ask regarding fraud. But no, you won't. You think lying for gain is ok, as long as the lie is deceitful CID. Or so you've said, as you said fraud should be illegal, but that no use of CID should ever be illegal, right? Correct me if I'm wrong. It's so hard to get you to say anything other than your rambling rants about how I'm wrong that it's hard to figure out what you actually think so I can address that.

To use your doorknob analogy, you want to forbid opening doors without authorization.

That's already the case. Breaking and Entering is illegal. "Breaking" is opening an unlocked door. In some places, just breaking is illegal. The laws you assert are absurd are already on the books. That just indicates to me that you have no connection to reality.