Court to T-Mobile, AT&T: your voicemail ain't secure, so stop saying otherwise
Thanks to SpoofCard, AT&T and T-Mobile now owe some cash in the state of California, and the rest of us have been given one more reason to lie awake at night. The service -- of questionable non-illegal value -- reports your Caller ID phone number as anything you like, and injunctions filed in Los Angeles demand that the carriers stop advertising their voicemail services as being secure, considering that they can be set to rely on the calling phone number alone to connect to a specific voicemail box. For their indiscretions, AT&T will be coughing up $59,300 and T-Mobile owes an even 25 grand; meanwhile, SpoofCard's parent company will pay $33,000 for advertising its service as being legal in 50 states even though it's not.[Via Phone Scoop]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Whocares @ Dec 14th 2008 11:10AM
hmmm something tells me if this was Sprint or Verizon, people would be all over it.
watch people start defending their iphone's and G1's. It'll have nothing to do with the topic
kimberly @ Dec 14th 2008 11:13AM
This is so stupid. Their voicemail is a lot more secure than others. I work for at&t and there are many security precautions set for everyones voicemail. You can only set it up from the cell phone and that can't be hacked because it goes by the sim card. You have to set up a password and the only way you can access the voicemail from another phone is by password. You have to be verrified online and over the phone to reset the voicemail password. Also this caller id crap is stupid too. You have to provide a valid name to show on your caller id. California is just suing for stupid stuff just to get money.