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- nicklinus, on 10/12/2007, -8/+94the orignal artical does not have the phone number and the artical was made before the boing boing post.
- kevinrose, on 10/12/2007, -4/+74I tried it with my friends cell phone number (with his permission), gave out the address.. scary.
- raccettura, on 10/12/2007, -3/+60Hmm....
so you spot a security issue, you:
a) Hope nobody else finds it before it's fixed.
b) Blog it and post it too digg, where there are tons of nerds who love social engineering and hacking.
Yea, I would have done the same thing. - forcedfx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+50Except for getting service.
- auto_exec, on 10/12/2007, -0/+49Yep, I got the same message... Digg's taking out phone companies now, that's hilarious.
- blaineg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+48I get a recording saying they are experiencing high call volumes. Digg effect on their phone systems??
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40This is a great excuse for a girl not to give her cell number out to a guy she meets. :)
- hackattack, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35I just love hacks that are legal!
SO IF YOU LOVED THIS SPRINT HACK..... Look at what was posted on a news group. Many claim it works!
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
This HACK works and I want to share it with everyone
Sprints commercials talk about sticking it to the man, well guess who
this sticks
You can get UNLIMITED Sprint in and out minutes by doing the following:
Step 1 Go to www.voicestick.com and sign up for the USA/Canada plan @
$19.99 or the UNLIMITED Min. GLOBAL plan @ $24.99 or the per min plan @
2.4 cents
Step #2 Sign up for the cheapest Sprint phone program, which is the Fair
and Flexible at $29.99, then add the new Sprint to Home program for $5.00
a month.
Step #3 When you tell the Sprint agent your “HOME” number give them your
new Voicestick home number
(Here is the trick. With Sprint to Home all calls to or from this "Home"
number are not
chargeable and they are unlimited!)
Step #4 In your account set up at voicestick.com go to the bridge set up
and put in your cell number and then go to call forwarding and set up
your cell phone number there too.
Voicestick.com is the ONLY Cellular capable voip company that has a built
in bridge, that I have found.What the bridge does is allow you to get a
new dial tone to call out on UNLIMITED VOIP (or a pay as you go plan for
2 cents a min.) When I call my new "home" Voicestick number the VOIP
company sees my caller ID and gives me a dial out tone. I then dial like
normal. (You can even program voice stick into the address book of the
phone)My person I call sees the voip number on their caller id and when
they call back to my new "home" number it forwards to my cell.
So both out going and incoming calls are now free of Sprint charges.
Options: I also bought for $30 the MG3 line adapter so I also get a
second line at my home that the kids now use.
I also downloaded the free Soft Phone so I use that too when I can't find
a good cell signal but I find a network or wireless connection (I am now
covered just about anywhere)
To sum it all up! For my $35 basic Sprint plan and the $20 for voip, I
have unlimited cell and a unlimited home phone. - fugazi, on 10/12/2007, -10/+40If you are all so scared of this, why arent you afraid of a phonebook?
- founderofpork, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33That's just plain scary. And stupid. Is there any mobile phone provider in operation these days that isn't utterly corrupt/incompetent?
- monergism, on 10/12/2007, -5/+28I'm not listed in the phonebook. Nor is my cell.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26"2) A phonebook doesn't give out my address"
What do you mean?! That's EXACTLY what a phone book does. It lists your name phone number and address. - AgentEntropy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Ah, it's times like this that I feel so proud to work for Sprint.
*makes mental note to start looking for a new job again* - rewritable, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Stalking my ex girlfriends right now THANKS SPRINT!!!11!!1
(Execpt the one that has T-Mobile, DAMN YOU WOMAN!!! DAMN YOU!!!!!) - yeahbuddy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Damn, that number is Dugg all to hell. I've never heard a phone-404 in my life! Bwahaha.
- karamba_kid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12If you wait to hear it the second time it includes City, State, and Zip code.
- maseone, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I agree.
Either way, I called in a complaint and e-mailed one. I hope every other Sprint customer will do the same. (at the same time preferably! =)
And to anyone pist saying that they are "going to switch" to another monopolized service provider, I laugh for you. - HackWithRamzi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12dkocolin:
The customers do not know that Sprint is giving out the information. - stomicron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14"This is a great excuse for a girl not to give her cell number out to a guy she meets"
Yeah, keep thinking that. - Yez70, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Scary stuff.
Sprint used to be a great company, the customer WAS king. In the past 10 years they have steadily gone downhill. You should try to get some customer service (in intelligible English), it's like pulling fingernails out with pliers.
Now all they care about is how to charge you more for their inferior services. - No1Bri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10wow looks like the phone number is dugg. When i called it said that the i was transferred to a voice mailbox due to the high volume of calls on the the sprint international verification number
- yvovandoorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10What is truly scary is this: "One of the numbers I gave to that Sprint voicebot was the number of a friend who is in a battered woman program. It gave her name and her current 'safehouse' address, and she WAS very concerned about that."
Honestly I almost think Sprint customers should file a class action lawsuit over this. - tylerni7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10So far we've got phone bots and servers, c'mon people, what else can we crash? I vote we start crashing parties... that would totally kick ass. But this is a democracy, so any other votes?
- chaosmachine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10and if you need to know what number you're dialing from, dial 1-800-444-3333, a computer will read your ANI off for you.
- tylerni7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9For a phone book, it goes the other way around, you need to know their name and such. Also, landlines aren't as private as cell phones are. Now if you dial some crazy persons phone accidentally and have Sprint, they can now look up your address and full name and kill you. That doesn't sound very fun now does it?
Also, people can make you pay for international calls now. - maseone, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12There are plans in the works to combine Canada into California
- SpikeX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Is this true? Wow, this really blows. Glad we're switching when our plan is expired (stupid Sprint...)
- gaijin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8When I told my wife ( a Sprint customer) about this she called them right away. She actually got hold of a supervisor, explained that she gave her cell number out to people that she might not want to have her home number or address, and then encouraged him to call the number and input HIS cell number. He was back on the phone in two minutes totally freaked out. He said his office hadn't known about it and they would change it ASAP. We'll see.
BTW, he and my wife both logged into this website and watched as the numbers of diggs steadily increased! That fact may get more reaction than anything else. - karamba_kid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Rosewood,
well actually... if you wait for her to repeat the name again she reads back the full name, street address, City, State, and zip code! - yvovandoorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6hahaha someone already added it to the wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_Nextel - Coopjust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Do you think that Sony would have dealt with the rootkit issue if it wasn't posted online?
This is slightly different, but the basic idea is the same; Sprint probably wouldn't have fixed it unless it was public. Also, Sprint would probably just laugh off complaints from a few customers. - dnthomps, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I think this is wrong.. Do not get that mixed up.. but Sprint may have their asses covered on this one.. from the Spint Privacy Policy:
In the context of these Privacy Principles, personal information is information that is directly associated with a person such as his or her name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, activities and preferences. Nonpublic personal information generally means a subset of personal information, which is sensitive and not publicly available, such as credit card number, social security number, and bank account information. Publicly available information is information that is typically available from governmental records, telephone and other public directories, widely distributed media such as newspapers and radio, and from companies that provide demographic or marketing materials to others as a part of their business. Publicly available information includes contact information, such as name, address, telephone number, email address, activities, and preferences.
http://www.sprint.com/legal/sprint_privacy.html - NinjaNoodles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Holy CRAP! I just did it. SprintBOT gave my street number and name NOT the city and state or ZIP code, but even that is completely unacceptable! We Sprint customers ought to email them and call in our complaints about this breach in our privacy!! Ready, set, go! email and call everyone!
- monergism, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6If you know the person you probably know what city they live in.
- 3monkeys, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Just tried with my own number. I use a PO Box for all of my bills. Have done so for years. The response "Are you 3monkeys living at Comma?". An ounce of prevention.
- sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This must be the hidden NSA feature for Sprint customers.
- kylebrothert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Umm.. Anyone who I call has my cell phone number (from caller-id)
- towardsthere, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5If you have a number you know the area code so you know the state and if you have the exchange then you know at about where the city is....
- colklink, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10A person's name, address, and telephone number are not really personal information. This is public information that can be found easily on the internet or the phonebook. It's not like this system is handing out SSN's everytime you call.
Don't get me wrong though, Sprint is freaking evil... - voipdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Generaly you cannot do a reverse look up of cell numbers. Worse you were not given the option to opt out of your info being given out.
Hmmmm..... How do you spell Class Action Law Suit? - furyg3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4To publish or not to publish is a pretty ongoing question. Security Exploits are handled a similar way. I've discovered a hole in IE, should I call Microsoft or publish the bug? If you don't publish, SURELY someone else will find the exploit (or in this case phone number). Also, what are the odds that a phone call to either MS or Sprint will actually fix the problem?
The solution, in my opinion, is to attempt to notify the person responsible for the problem. This is doubly so in the case of a small business. With Sprint or Microsoft, you should give them a short ammount of time to fix the problem, and let them know that you intend to publish the information. Avoid giving them your contact information, as they may try to theaten you legally.
THEN post the exploit, phone number, or security problem.
Regardless of whether or not you take my extra steps, it's still always better to post information than it is to hold onto it. Sprint, Microsoft, The US Government, whoever, should make security a prime concern, and they just don't (unless there's good motivation, like some guy publishing it). - topside, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Digg effect - Number disconnected...
- DeepThought42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Who's running your security sprint? Do you even have security?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"For a phone book, it goes the other way around, you need to know their name and such"
It's called reverse lookup, you enter the number, it gives you the name and address. Whitepages.com, bigyellow.com, the person search sites all have it... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6You don't need their zipcode, thanks to the fact that you already know their phone's area code. I'm sure a street correlation and area code search would yield good results...
- Radian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@yvovandoorn:
Someone definitely will file a class action lawsuit.
My sister has Sprint and was the victim of a stalker in college. I told her about this, she just called and I guess Sprint is in damage control mode (the call is re-directed.)
Some heads will roll over this.
On a tangentially-related subject... does anyone know the answer to this: was the identity of the gub'mint employee with all the U.S. Veterans' info on his/her laptop ever released or leaked? As I understand it the person was fired, but that's all I heard. - KRockXP, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This is really really spooky. Expect them to fix it and send out "Sorry" letters by the end of the month.
- diehard2k5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you get the voicemail message, call back in a minute or two. I finally got to it. I tried it with my grandfather's phone number, but it gave me my uncle's address (that's who the account is registered under), so just hide your tracks, and give the address of a relative. =]
- zoombusa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3LOL redirects due to high call volume.
- n3tfury, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4verified two sprint accounts. Sprint customers should be quite upset at this.
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