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.<div>
<br></div><div>Oops.</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Brian Hawes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian.hawes@retired.ox.ac.uk">brian.hawes@retired.ox.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi,<br>
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There is a huge fuss going on over here, in U.K., about newspaper reporters hacking into personal voicemail, on a large scale.<br>
Nothing seems to have been said about how newspaper staff acquired the knowledge or the means to do this.<br>
Is it so easy, or are our newspapers staffed by retired spooks?<br>
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