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minus-squareHeckGazerlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoThe 10,000 support staff with dubious social engineering training at your service provider are not “something you have”. Case in point literally a few weeks ago https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/verizon-fell-for-fake-search-warrant-gave-victims-phone-data-to-stalker/
minus-squareKethal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoThis is an article describing someone impersonating an officer and submitting a fake warrant. It’s incredible that Verizon fell for it, but what does it have to do with SMS?
minus-squareAVincentInSpace@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt means that if I want access to something that has been texted to you, I don’t exactly need to be a government in order to get it.
The 10,000 support staff with dubious social engineering training at your service provider are not “something you have”. Case in point literally a few weeks ago https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/verizon-fell-for-fake-search-warrant-gave-victims-phone-data-to-stalker/
This is an article describing someone impersonating an officer and submitting a fake warrant. It’s incredible that Verizon fell for it, but what does it have to do with SMS?
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It means that if I want access to something that has been texted to you, I don’t exactly need to be a government in order to get it.