How easy is it to “hack” into a voice mail system? Easy, according to security experts.
That’s both because cell phone owners make it easy by not changing their default personal identification number to access their voice mail, and because of the proliferation of easily-accessible software online that enables people to pretend to be the owners of phones that they’re trying to break into.The News of the World phone hacking scandal has people on both sides of the Atlantic wondering how widespread the practice is within News Corp., with one group calling for a congressional investigation into whether other News Corp. journalists have hacked into any Americans’ accounts.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=109688