Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
“Hi, Dell. This is Andrew at EFF. We got disconnected. Oh, I think you might be calling me.” I was playing phone tag with Andrew Crocker, a law fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, during an ongoing conversation aboutnational security letters. It was a week-old voicemail message just sitting in my inbox. But I wasn’t listening to his message on my phone. I was reading it on my laptop in a chatroom with a hacker aptly named “Phr3ak.” “End of call,” Phr3ak replied, as if he were handing my inbox back — something I’ll never rely on again. “It works for all carriers and has been tested in multiple countries,” he added. “With permission of course.” In reality, Phr3ak is Jamie Woodruff, a 21-year-old security researcher from Rishton, England, who had permission to break into my voicemail. Had he not, his demonstration would have constituted a serious crime under Britain’s Data Protection Act (DPA). Journalists and private eyes charged in the now-infamous News International phone hacking scandalare facing years behind bars. In America, computer fraud can earn you decades. Despite the crackdown on voicemail hacking following the controversy at Murdoch’s News of the World, unfortunately, the act itself is easier […]
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