The NYT article ( http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/business/06walmart.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) isn't entirely clear but I'd be surprised if it wasn't just programming the PBX to record calls to a specific extension when CID = NYT. The home-made rig to capture text messages from within the building is intriguing.
This has a little stink of HP's troubles but in a southern-state kind of way. Never mess with good'ol'boys with bubba trucks and gun racks! They'll monitor your SMS messages with some hillbilly ingenuity! On 3/13/07, C Q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The article said that cloning is one of the methods saying that, "Wal-Mart isn't discussing details of the method its employee used". Cloning used to be relatively simple with analog cellphones, which nobody is using anymore. It wasn't very cheap though. On 3/13/07, Dude VanWinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The article said that he cloned their phone. That would be similar to > cloning a MAC address, except that both could send and receive data. > > this used to be really popular in the analog days of cell phones, but > the process got more complex after digital got popular. > > Now-a-days, with the advent of sim chips, i think it would be as > simple as cloning the data on the sim and inserting that cloned sim > into any phone. > > > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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