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Tuesday February 22, 2005 3:38 pm
Vin Diesel and Paris Hilton’s Voicemail Hacked
How secure is your cellular phone’s voice mail? If your cell phone provider is T-Mobile or Sprint PCS it may not be as secure as you think. Recently hackers have found a way to access your voice mail by simply spoofing your phone number using caller ID spoofing systems such as CovertCall and Telespoof. Sprint and T-Mobile give users the option of enabling auto voicemail login where the user may log in to their voice mail automatically when calling from their own cell phone. The authentication system is simple – it uses the user’s caller ID to validate the number. If the caller ID matches your cell phone number, then it will log you in automatically. To prove that this is what hackers doing, they were able to access Paris Hilton’s voice mail as well as Vin Diesel’s voice mail after the events of this past weekend.
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| Kevin Rose
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hahhaha
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sad to see the 2 biggest losers in the world being hacked. These hackers need to get a girl, desperately.
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I’m loving this stuff. Isn’t hacking all about causing insanity/chaos? So who else is better to go after than the celebs? Now everyone knows their private info is not safe.
Props to Kevin Rose for this article.
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Has anyone noticed that vin diesel is turning 38 and he still isn’t married? Is he gay or something? wot a bomber! No one as sexy as him is ever single unless they’re waiting for me!!!!
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Wot the fascination with Vin Diesel? All those muscles are to make up for his loss of inches in his pants! HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA
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why would u ppl think that kinda stuff is cool if u do somthin like that ur jus some low life who has nothing to do on there free time but sit on there @$$ and hack into peoples phones !!! losers
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