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Recycle Your Phone, Sure, But Maybe Not Your Number

Recycle Your Phone, Sure, But Maybe Not Your Number

| | Google Voice, Latest Warnings, number parking services, Princeton University, Security Tools, SMS, T-Mobile, verizon, Web Fraud 2.0
Many online services allow users to reset their passwords by clicking a link sent via SMS, and this unfortunately widespread practice has turned mobile phone numbers into de facto identity documents. Which ...
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Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do.

Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do.

| | A Little Sunshine, Aaron Mackey, Andy Greenberg, ATT, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Federal Communications Commission, Gigi Sohn, Google Voice, Nicholas Truglia, Robocalls, SIM swapping, The Coming Storm, wired
Incessantly annoying and fraudulent robocalls. Corrupt wireless company employees taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to unlock and hijack mobile phone service. Wireless providers selling real-time customer location data, despite ...
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Instagram’s New Security Tools are a Welcome Step, But Not Enough

Instagram’s New Security Tools are a Welcome Step, But Not Enough

| | Authy, Duo, facebook, Google Authenticator, Google Voice, Instagram, Security Tools, SIM swap, T-Mobile, two factor authentication, twofactorauth.org
Instagram users should soon have more secure options for protecting their accounts against Internet bad guys. On Tuesday, the Facebook-owned social network said it is in the process of rolling out support ...
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Retrieving a Stolen iPhone in Under 72 Hours

| | Apple, Apple ID, ATT, Google Voice, ICloud, iPhone, Lost iPhone, police, PropertyShark, Stolen iPhone, Tracking iPhone, Tracking Stolen iPhone
Image via streamingmedia.com Within 53 hours I was able to get a stolen iPhone safely into police custody. Here's a rough timeline of the steps I went took to get the phone ...
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