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megan walker - Sep 20, 2012 11:13:57 am PDT #20996 of 25501

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

And I read the other day that Virgin Mobile accounts are pretty easy to hack. They use the phone number as the user ID and a 6-digit PIN for a password. Problem is, they allow unlimited, rapid guesses of the PIN, so anyone who knows a Virgin phone # can hack the account in about a day with a script.

And that gets you what exactly? I'm just wondering why someone would bother.

tommyrot - Sep 20, 2012 12:17:59 pm PDT #20997 of 25501

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

And that gets you what exactly? I'm just wondering why someone would bother.

Complete access to the person's account. You can view history of calls made and received, view texts, order a new phone that will be charged to the credit card on file....

§ ita § - Sep 20, 2012 1:05:38 pm PDT #20998 of 25501

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Can you see pictures? That's the cool hack.

Consuela - Sep 20, 2012 1:43:11 pm PDT #20999 of 25501

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Complete access to the person's account.

Which could probably be leveraged into a complete takeover of all someone's accounts. At least, that's what happened to that tech journalist last month. Someone got into his cellphone account, IIRC, and from there into his Amazon account, and then Gmail, then Apple, and from there it was all over--he lost everything in the cloud and everything on his MacBook and iPad, which they wiped remotely.

And all they really wanted was his Twitter handle.

I forget the exact chain of connections, but Amazon claims they've blocked the loophole the hackers used.

le nubian - Sep 20, 2012 2:46:15 pm PDT #21000 of 25501

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

'Suela,

they got his apple id and amazon id and the rest is history.

Rob - Sep 20, 2012 2:51:01 pm PDT #21001 of 25501

There's also ab: [link]

meara - Sep 20, 2012 4:56:01 pm PDT #21002 of 25501

Well, and if youre someone famous that would be bad. Or if it's your ex who is stalking you or something

javachik - Sep 20, 2012 10:28:00 pm PDT #21003 of 25501

Our wings are not tired.

I kinda think that would be bad even if I weren't being stalked and weren't famous...

omnis_audis - Sep 21, 2012 1:42:12 am PDT #21004 of 25501

omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Does the facebook integration into iOS6 sqick anyone else? I'm wondering how much data mining is going on. It's one thing when you are using the facebook webpage, but if it's integrated into the phone... I dunno. It doesn't sit well with me. Also a little pissy that not all features will work with the latest gen iPad. I understand my iPhone 4 is now in third place, so not all features for it. But the iPad retina?

Not all that impressed with the offerings, such that I feel the need to install it.

§ ita § - Sep 21, 2012 4:48:59 am PDT #21005 of 25501

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

On the one hand it's too much, on the other too little?

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