Re: NYT on Insecure Phones
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199412040246.VAA25360@pipe3.pipeline.com>, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:
Cellular One of Washington-Baltimore, owned by SBC Communications Inc., has sent its customers letters notifying them that it would block the service beginning on Thursday because it had compiled a huge backlog of phone numbers used in New York that appeared to be fraudulent.
It's worse than that! They will allow customers to use their service in NYC, I'm told by a customer of their's visiting this weekend, if they pay for the call with a credit card (IE, VISA, MC, etc) that they must *give* *an* *operator* *over* *the* *cellphone*. So to avoid their own exposure to fraud, they're requiring their customers to give credit card info over the cellphone. Thanks, guys. No pro-34s 'round here, nope. - -- Todd Masco | "Roam home to a dome, Where Georgian and Gothic once stood cactus@hks.net | Now chemical bonds alone guard our blond(e)s, cactus@bb.com | And even the plumbing looks good." - B Fuller - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBLuFGUioZzwIn1bdtAQF98wGAiBKy9nk/SzN7Nb/8v/noLEZDJgRCZy71 pjyDqlAtjnnQ0KelgzqDPLr8LIXAo8Eq =+JzJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
It's worse than that! They will allow customers to use their service in NYC, I'm told by a customer of their's visiting this weekend, if they pay for the call with a credit card (IE, VISA, MC, etc) that they must *give* *an* *operator* *over* *the* *cellphone*.
Cell1 is just not incredibly smart about security, physical or otherwise. An aquaintance of mine found a "Fraud Alert Bulletin" in a Cellular One trash can which warned about the dangers of not shredding your trash. Of course, in the same bag was wads of credit card info, NAM & ESN info, etc. =jon ( --------[ Jonathan D. Cooper ]--------[ entropy@intnet.net ]-------- ) ( PGP 2.6.2 keyprint: 31 50 8F 82 B9 79 ED C4 5B 12 A0 35 E0 9B C0 01 )
On Thu, 8 Dec 1994, Jonathan Cooper wrote:
Cell1 is just not incredibly smart about security, physical or otherwise. An aquaintance of mine found a "Fraud Alert Bulletin" in a Cellular One trash can which warned about the dangers of not shredding your trash. Of course, in the same bag was wads of credit card info, NAM & ESN info, etc.
Nor will they hesadate to give out Cellular programming info over the phone if you can find there Internal Customer Care phone number, found by looking at a Cellular One display such as the one's Circuit City is using in West Florida Groove on dude Michael Conlen
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