The Guardian investigation has shown that, within a very short time of Milly vanishing, News of the World journalists reacted by engaging in what was standard practice in their newsroom: they hired private investigators to get them a story. Their first step was simple, albeit illegal. Paperwork seen by the Guardian reveals that they paid a Hampshire private investigator, Steve Whittamore, to obtain home addresses and, where necessary, ex-directory phone numbers for any families called Dowler in the Walton area.
The three addresses Whittamore found could be obtained lawfully on the electoral register. Then, with the help of its own full-time private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, the News of the World started illegally intercepting mobile phone messages. As her friends and parents called and left messages imploring Milly to get in touch with them, the News of the World was listening and recording their every private word.
But the journalists at the News of the World then encountered a problem. Apparently thirsty for more information from more voicemails, the paper intervened — and deleted the messages that had been left in the first few days after her disappearance.
According to one source, this had a devastating effect: when her friends and family called again and discovered that her voicemail had been cleared, they concluded that this must have been done by Milly herself and, therefore, that she must still be alive.
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An investigation by The Register has found that even after Lord Leveson's press ethics inquiry, which delved into the practice of phone hacking, some telcos are not implementing even the most basic level of security. Your humble correspondent has just listened to the private voicemail of a fellow Reg journalist's phone, accessed the voicemail inbox of a new SIM bought for testing purposes, and the inbox of someone with a SIM issued to police doing anti-terrorist work.
There was a lot of brouhaha over some newspapers accessing people's voicemail without permission, but one of the strange things about it all is that at no stage have any fingers been pointed at the mobile phone networks for letting snoops in.
And some doors are still open. Charlotte Church It's believed the infiltrated inboxes merely had default PINs, or passcodes that were far too easy to guess, allowing eavesdroppers to easily drop by. People were urged to change their number codes for their voicemail, but, as we shall see, that advice is useless — you simply don't need to know a PIN to listen to someone's messages.
The login flaw was discovered during development work I was doing on a virtual mobile phone network that's aimed at folks who struggle with modern technology: it allows, for example, an elderly subscriber to ring up a call centre and ask to be put through to a friend or relative, rather than flick through a fiddly on-screen contacts book.
In this case, the operator makes the connection between the subscriber and the intended receiver, but the "calling line identification" CLI shown at the receiving end is that of the subscriber and not of the call centre. It is trivial to set an arbitrary CLI when making a call. I had to find out if voicemail systems were vulnerable to spoofing.
I was emboldened by an email from Register reader Sebastian Arcus, who had set up some software for making voice calls over the internet VoIP in other words using his mobile phone number, and was surprised that he was able to collect his voicemail from his VoIP client without having to hand over an access PIN.
If you call your voicemail service from a handset linked to the account, you go through to your message inbox without the need to enter a PIN, presumably as a convenience. Use any other phone and you are asked for a PIN access code. So far, so good. The special sauce here is how does the mobile phone network know which phone you are calling from?
The easy way is to look at the CLI sent when establishing a call. Microsoft's board of directors has hired a law firm to review its sexual harassment and gender discrimination policies and practices following a shareholder proposal.
The shareholder vote came at the urging of Arjuna Capital after the investment management firm warned that "sexual harassment at Microsoft presents a material investment risk. Vivaldi will not provide crypto-wallets in its browser because it doesn't want users to participate in digital coin trading — something CEO Jon von Tetzchner desribes as "at best a gamble and at worst a scam". The move comes a week after rival Mozilla dipped a toe in the crypto-waters , only to have it angrily bitten off.
Mozilla initially talked of accepting donations via cryptocurrencies but swiftly backtracked, saying the policy would be paused and reviewed. Anti-malware veteran Norton also came a little unstuck at the same time thanks to inbuilt crypto-mining tech. Microsoft's cloudy storage platform, OneDrive, is a handy solution for mixed fleets. Using Windows and Mac hardware? No problem; a local-file-like experience is on hand for either environment Linux users, sadly, need not apply for the time being.
One facet of the OneDrive experience is Files On-Demand, where the content of files is not downloaded until needed for example, opening up a Word document. It saves disk space and means OneDrive only downloads what it needs when connected to the internet unless a user has manually specified that a file or folder be always available.
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