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> 400 million+ phone numbers. 200 million+ US-based valid cell phone numbers. Sounds like a nightmare in the making for those cell phone users and their carrie
by arbuge 7y ago
> 400 million+ phone numbers. 200 million+ US-based valid cell phone numbers.
Sounds like a nightmare in the making for those cell phone users and their carriers when those begin to get SIM jacked.
- cm2187 7y agoI think cold calling could be an even bigger nuisance. My DNS provider published my phone number by mistake on a whois when I registered a domain, I spotted it immediately and it was corrected within hours. Over a year later I still receive cold calls from India to sell me web services at least once or twice a week. Imagine if you can match everyone’s position with a mobile phone, a dream for tele marketers, tailors, scammers, etc...
- pc86 7y agoIs that all you need to SIM jack a phone? The phone number?
- peterwwillis 7y agoYes and no. You need a phone number, but you still need to carry out a variation of an attack that replaces the SIM associated with that phone number. Sometimes this is carrier-specific. Sometimes it's trivial, sometimes it requires a menial amount of work, and in extreme cases you might have to access an actual network. Most of the time there is nothing stopping the attack if they have your personal information.