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Old July 20th 18, 05:26 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
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Default telephone hackers - can we upload something?

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

| I don't see why _I_ should pay out for such a 'phone, though.
|
| The CLIs are often spoofed though -

We don't pay for it anymore. Here, also, it's often
spoofed. And a recent trick is for fundraisers to use
a personal cellphone with a local exchange, so it
seems legit. But the nice thing is that I can tell
if a caller is someone I know.

Few are legit. So I just ignore them, unless
they're someone I know. The few people who get
blocked can leave a message. The whole thing
used to drive me crazy when I answered each call.
Now I use a lot of email and usually only need to
glance at the phone when it rings.

| I'll repeat it in case the thread wander has diverted attention from it,
| but I still suspect the answer's no (as I can't think how it would
| work), but: anyone think of a way we could upload something to their
| systems? (If only a list of numbers to call - including the private
| lines of their prime minister and the heads of crime families, and every
| police station in their country ...)

I don't see how that might be possible. You're
on a phone call. There's no server connection
going on.

Were you thinking of a case where they want
access to your computer? Even then, if you let them
run some kind of remote desktop, you'd have to be
a very clever hacker with knowledge of bugs in
that software to attack them back.


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