Phone Hacking

[Mark Whittington]

I know that for some time (and possibly still) you could spoof your caller
ID with VoIP here in the US and use that to get into some voicemail systems
without a password.  You'd spoof the number you wanted access to and then
call into the voicemail retrieval system.  It would happily assume that
since you seemed to be calling from a subscriber number that you were the
subscriber.

Oops.


On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Brian Hawes
<brian.hawes at retired.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There is a huge fuss going on over here, in U.K., about newspaper reporters
> hacking into personal voicemail, on a large scale.
> Nothing seems to have been said about how newspaper staff acquired the
> knowledge or the means to do this.
> Is it so easy, or are our newspapers staffed by retired spooks?
>
> Brian Hawes
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