AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network
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Re: AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network
#2This is one of the problems with the cloud as well. You assume your website is well and safe but a Digital Ocean (or whatever) employee could always hack it.
Re: AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network
#3Is this how the eBay phone unlocking services work?
Usually they say something about servers and "sending your IMEI to the server" etc, and sometimes it can take a certain number of hours.
Re: AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network
#4This is one of the problems with the cloud as well. You assume your website is well and safe but a Digital Ocean (or whatever) employee could always hack it.
That isn't cloud specific, you could say the same about anything.
Re: AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network
#5This is one of the problems with the cloud as well. You assume your website is well and safe but a Digital Ocean (or whatever) employee could always hack it.
this is one of the problems with datacenters as well. you assume your router is well and safe but the NSA (or whatever) employee could always intercept it in transit and hack it.
Re: AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network
#6Given how poorly AT&T and the like treat customers I can't really feel bad that they lost out on $5mm of fees on their crappy overpriced contracts.
Re: AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network
#7Companies need to assume that their network is compromised.
Ignoring anything else that means they need to adopt E2E encryption for all user data (except where legally mandated to be insecure, or when the data has a fundamental need to be accessible - e.g. your bank needs to know how much money you have). Anything else, including dumbass politicians demanding magic crypto, makes your user data a valuable and achievable target.
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#8His methods were illegal but can we please recognize this guy for being an ABSOLUTE HERO for unlocking all those phones and giving the people what they wanted.
Re: AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network
#9This is one of the problems with the cloud as well. You assume your website is well and safe but a Digital Ocean (or whatever) employee could always hack it.
this is one of the problems with datacenters as well. you assume your router is well and safe but the NSA (or whatever) employee could always intercept it in transit and hack it.
this is the problem with offshore hosts as well. you assume the lack of an information sharing treaty and plain text writing of a law ensures the privacy of your data, but the government can just arbitrarily hand it over to the first FBI agent that asks
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#10I wonder what the footprint is do the SIM hijacking, e.g. is anyone a sufficiently high enough bribe away from the type of scheme that compromises their account because it only takes 1 employee to effect it.
I've been switching to hardware keys when I'm able but it's not always feasible. I just bought a Titan key combo and you can't use most 3rd party email clients with it so that made it kind of useless to me (since Gmail's mail app isn't that great)