Flaws in mobile phone security flagged up many years ago
Some 12 years a member of the public, shocked at how easy it was to blag a pin number top access his voicemail, began campaigning to make others aware of the security risk. Unfortunately, he was ignored.
Steven Nott, a salesman who discovered the issue, complained to his mobile operator, Vodafone but no changes were made. He then tried to get the local newspaper, to publicise the issue and advised the police of his concerns also. The local paper did run the story but no-one on a national level was even prepared to raise the issue. In a highly ironic twist, Mr Nott took up the issue also with some of the tabloids, but yes, you guessed it, they didn’t thin k it was a significant or newsworthy issue.
Mr Nott says he now feels bad that he may have alerted the tabloid press to the ease in which a mobile phone could be hacked !
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