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Here's the story from the founder's perspective: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QkTa-zWgIh8J:https://medium.com/%40avizolty/my-investment-

Here's the story from the founder's perspective: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QkTa-zWgIh8J:https://medium.com/%40avizolty/my-investment-hack-jason-calacanis-voicemail-e4b414659ad7 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QkTa-zW...

jeffreyrogers 12y ago
Quoting from that link > This wasn’t meant to be a malicious hack, but rather a simple social experiment to see how much traction/investor interest I could get. What matters isn't what it was meant as. What matters is that in doing this you showed your poor judgement.
minimaxir 12y ago
Apparently he later changed the last line from "This wasn’t meant to be a malicious hack, but rather a simple social experiment to see how much traction/investor interest I could get" to "LEGAL DISCLOSURE: I have neither attempted to read or plan to read any voicemails," in the version of the cache I have, which is a telling edit. https://www.dropbox.com/s/go9lfnxwt9fnax2/My%20Investment%20hack_%20Jason%20Calacanis%E2%80%99%20voicemail%20%E2%80%94%20Medium.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/go9lfnxwt9fnax2/My%20Investment%20...
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covercash 12y ago
So all he had to do was spoof the number to access voicemail setup? That seems wrong. Would he not need the voicemail passcode as well?
- Andrenid 12y ago
  With lots of providers you only need the PIN if accessing voicemail from a number that isn't your own, eg "dialling in" to your voicemail from a payphone/friendsphone/etc (dial your own number, press *)... if it detects it's from your own number, it generally just lets you in without the PIN.
- stevenjohns 12y ago
  No voicemail passcode was set. The skurt.co folk spoofed his number and set whatever voicemail passcode they chose.
mvrekic 12y ago
I find the post photo where Jason holds a phone with Skurt logo, alluding to an existing relationship equally disturbing.
- pygy_ 12y ago
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jeffreyrogers 12y ago

Quoting from that link > This wasn’t meant to be a malicious hack, but rather a simple social experiment to see how much traction/investor interest I could get. What matters isn't what it was meant as. What matters is that in doing this you showed your poor judgement.

minimaxir 12y ago

Apparently he later changed the last line from "This wasn’t meant to be a malicious hack, but rather a simple social experiment to see how much traction/investor interest I could get" to "LEGAL DISCLOSURE: I have neither attempted to read or plan to read any voicemails," in the version of the cache I have, which is a telling edit. https://www.dropbox.com/s/go9lfnxwt9fnax2/My%20Investment%20hack_%20Jason%20Calacanis%E2%80%99%20voicemail%20%E2%80%94%20Medium.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/go9lfnxwt9fnax2/My%20Investment%20...

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covercash 12y ago

So all he had to do was spoof the number to access voicemail setup? That seems wrong. Would he not need the voicemail passcode as well?

Andrenid 12y ago
With lots of providers you only need the PIN if accessing voicemail from a number that isn't your own, eg "dialling in" to your voicemail from a payphone/friendsphone/etc (dial your own number, press *)... if it detects it's from your own number, it generally just lets you in without the PIN.
stevenjohns 12y ago
No voicemail passcode was set. The skurt.co folk spoofed his number and set whatever voicemail passcode they chose.

mvrekic 12y ago

I find the post photo where Jason holds a phone with Skurt logo, alluding to an existing relationship equally disturbing.

pygy_ 12y ago
The legend says the image has been modified.
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