{"id":1600,"date":"2006-08-09T23:04:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T23:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/08\/voicemail_hacki\/"},"modified":"2006-08-09T23:04:02","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T23:04:02","slug":"voicemail_hacki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/voicemail_hacki\/","title":{"rendered":"Voicemail Hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/4778159.stm\">two men<\/a> were charged by police with intercepting phone messages.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve no idea at this point what&#8217;s actually happened, but as far as I can see there are a few ways that this might have happened:<br \/>\n* An unchanged pin used by dialling a phone and entering the number. This won&#8217;t work on my service provider but there&#8217;s another better way&#8230;<br \/>\n* Dialling a generic voicemail access number, entering the target phone&#8217;s number and then entering the pin. This might be a default number or a specific number.<br \/>\n* Social engineering. Getting pin numbers by spinning a likely tale to a phone company operator getting them to reveal a number to you. There are bound to be ways for this to work even if I don&#8217;t know what they are. That&#8217;s how people in the past have got bank records and the like.<br \/>\nThinking about it all, it&#8217;s remarkably easy.  Indeed your home answering machine is even easier with popular brands using default numbers. Dial in, press #, and enter the number. You&#8217;ve got the messages.<br \/>\nThere are going to be big implications from this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening two men were charged by police with intercepting phone messages. I&#8217;ve no idea at this point what&#8217;s actually happened, but as far as I can see there are a few ways that this might have happened: * An unchanged pin used by dialling a phone and entering the number. This won&#8217;t work on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}