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Re: NYT on Insecure Phones
> It's worse than that! They will allow customers to use their service
> in NYC, I'm told by a customer of their's visiting this weekend, if
> they pay for the call with a credit card (IE, VISA, MC, etc) that they
> must *give* *an* *operator* *over* *the* *cellphone*.
Cell1 is just not incredibly smart about security, physical or
otherwise. An aquaintance of mine found a "Fraud Alert Bulletin" in a
Cellular One trash can which warned about the dangers of not shredding
your trash. Of course, in the same bag was wads of credit card info, NAM
& ESN info, etc.
=jon
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