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Old July 20th 18, 07:36 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default telephone hackers - can we upload something?

In message , Mayayana
writes:
"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


We don't pay for CLI, either (well, it depends who your telcon. provider
is and what tariff you're on). I was referring to the blocking 'phone
when I said I didn't see why _I_ should pay for it.

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.


In UK, all fobile numbers start with 07. I've only once had a marketing
call from one of those.
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| 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.


Not initially, but ...

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.

.... yes, that's what I was thinking of. Pretend to do what they ask but
instead, upload something nasty. However, as you say, almost certainly
not possible. Too many bad movies (Independence Day, I'm looking at you
....)

[Actually, I enjoyed that movie - if you ignored the technical errors,
it was a good romp. And IIRR that was the one that had some very
gentlemanly and unrealistic Brits in it.]
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