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Been happening at t-mobile since like 2004

> Hollywood’s hacker war began on February 19, 2004 with a simple phone call. It happened at a T-Mobile store near Los Angeles. The caller told the salesperson he was from the T-Mobile headquarters in Washington. “We heard you’ve been having problems with your customer account tools?” The caller said. “No, we haven’t had any problems really,” the clerk replied, “just a couple slowdowns. That’s about it.”

> “Yes, that’s what is described here in the report,” the caller replied. “We’re going to have to look into this for a quick second.”

> “All right, what do you need?” Then he dutifully gave the caller the company’s internal web site for managing customer accounts —

https://www.wired.com/2015/11/the-hacking-of-hollywood/

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Surprising the guy from Sony mentioned in that article who called it a, “valid business decision to accept the risk of a security breach”

Still works there in the same capacity: https://www.mesaonline.org/conferences/with-leadership-award...

tmobile is terrible and I loathe them but are the alternatives better?

is twilio viable for personal cell use?

I will say that, as someone who knew the above mentioned hacker when I was underage, ATT and Verizon methodically train their employees on pretexting and other social engineering attacks. While they may have their flaws, they both have a culture of security and privacy that is completely different from TMOB.

There was a Darknet Diaries episode recently[0] that focused on a guy who frequently did phone scams, and he said Verizon was the most expensive to hack because you had to basically pay a bribe to get into their systems.

[0] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/112/

ffs, stop using cell phones. this goes double for smart phones.

Your landline provider also has fallible CSRs.

Webmail providers don't even have service, which can be a curse as much as it is a blessing

Anyone can commit megafraud against you by filing a USPS change of address form on your behalf to intercept all your paper correspondence, not to mention the rampant straight up package theft the past few years.

We need a more comprehensive plan than just 'dont use phones'. As long as correspondence has value, someone is going to try and steal it.

My who? I don't have a land line.

That’s not a real solution.

It is, in the most literal sense.

Twilio's "Programmable Wireless" product does not allow phone calls, and actually uses T-Mobile in the US.

So no, it's not viable at all.

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