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I'm sure they're within the letter of their EULA: "we won't send your mail to a 3rd party" doesn't mean "we won't analyse the hell out of your mail and send the results of *that* to a third party". |
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That I do not believe. I have no idea how hone
phacking works, but I am pretty sure it can beat
simple precautions. Phone cloning was big news a
few years ago - surely it's still possible.
Presumably, a cloned phone can access your texts
and voicemail as easily as the legitimate owner. |
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I was just trying to save NewsCorp the man-hours |
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Forward text messages, does that mean when you send me a text I have the option of sending it to other people? Like in forward this to x? My phone ( galaxy s samsung) does that as a standard function. just click twice and it goes to the number of my choice. |
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Idea here seems lame. My phone will not send anything unless I tell it to, is this a rant of sorts? |
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//there isn't any way to forward text messages// |
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Yes, but what would happen if there were two
phones out there with identical SIM cards? Would
they not both receive texts (and calls) destined
for that number? |
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I have no knowledge of the area, but the business
of "phone cloning" was very much in the news a
few years ago, and I assumed that it meant
grabbing the details of the original phone's SIM,
and then programming another SIM so that it
behaved like the same number, thereby allowing
the cloner to make calls which were billed to the
original owner's account. |
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Is that what "cloning" entails? And, if so, wouldn't
the second phone receive the texts destined for
the first one? |
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More to the point, how were the phones "hacked"
by the NotW? I can't believe it was very difficult. |
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//self tapping// Do you screw it, or does it screw you? |
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Sod it, [Ling], you beat me to it. |
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//what would happen if there were two phones out there with identical SIM cards? Would they not both receive texts (and calls) destined for that number?// |
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If they were both switched on at the same time the network might notice that something strange was going on, but if only one was ever switched on I wouldn't be surprised if it works this way. |
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//how were the phones "hacked" by the NotW?// |
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In the Milly Dowler case there were reports of the NotW accessing her voicemail - which could be as simple as dialing the right number and guessing a 4 digit password. |
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//phones with SIM cards, it appears, are more difficult to clone// |
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As I understand it there's a shared secret in the SIM card which it won't normally reveal; getting this secret out probably isn't impossible, but isn't trivial either. |
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//automatically forwarded// Not sure if it's legal for
them to not forward it to the FBI, if that agency
requests them to do so <link> In the USA, the opt
out agreement
might have to specify that the messages would not
be forwarded to *nongovernmental* parties. |
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//self tapping// Do you screw it, or does it screw you?// |
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Naah, it's a 1/4 Whitworth, just to be annoying. |
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Depends. If it's someone eavesdropping on your fairy cake recipe messaging, then you're probably ok. Unless they have a terrible, psychotic fear of fairies, induced by a traumatic incident with a Tinkerbell doll at an early age. |
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I just wanted some way to save phone messaging hackers from RSI everywhere. |
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