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> The attack vector only works for Landlines, VOIP, Toll-free.

I'm confused, didn't the article say "A few minutes after they entered my T-Mobile number into Sakari, Lucky225 started receiving text messages that were meant for me"? T-Mobile is a normal cellular carrier here isn't it? What part of it required a VOIP line?

P.S. You can edit your old comments instead of leaving 4 different ones in the same thread.

EDIT: Looking at this 5-day-old user's history, I think it's safe to say we shouldn't take the comments at face value:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26455000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26472770

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26464287

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He's saying Lucky225 lied to market his service https://okeymonitor.com/ in the article.

Lucky225 lied about... what exactly? The Vice reporter literally says "Then he showed he had received texts that were meant for me that he had intercepted. Later he took over my WhatsApp account, too, and texted a friend pretending to be me."

Lied that it was T-Mobile

I'm hoping he lied and T-Mobile SMS can't just be redirected.

Uhm, it's the Vice reporter who's saying "my T-Mobile number"... are you saying he has no idea who his carrier is and Lucky225 told him his carrier was T-Mobile?!?!?!

Well then he didn't lie I guess if it was the journalist getting hijacked live in T-Mobile

Well that's what the article says. It seems like you have no idea what the allegation is about, and the allegation itself seems to fly pretty blatantly in the face of the article too.

The allegation is mobile carriers can't be redirected. Only landline and voip.

Update: So his allegation is there is no reporter supposedly and it's a paid article.

Which directly contradicts the article saying it was T-Mobile...

Well that's what he's claiming https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26488898 paid article

I want to know who is right wealthyyy or Lucky225

Well that's why I'm pushing back against it. I very much want to know too. So far, given wealthyyy is a 5-day-old account making so many serious accusations of dishonesty [1] [2] against a Vice reporter without a shred of evidence, it should be obvious who has more credibility right now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26474437

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26474424

I don't give ....

Well what. It's obvious who you are. You are Lucky...

Account age is biased way to trust an individual. I could have bought an old HN account from someone but I didn't.

Look, Any Vice reporter can be bribed. You're missing the point.

You accuse people of dishonesty so easily and don't feel any need to show a single shred of evidence supporting your position?

Mr Flow, Please try a TMobile number on ZipWhip. You will see it fails. You will now claim that I am lying and that NetNumber has fixed this. So there is nothing I can do to help you.

I have known about this attack since 2012, but I did not publicly talk about how insecure SMS is for promoting an anti-fraud product.

Note, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are other attack vectors that only I know!

You are personally attacking me for no reason. What does my other comments has to do with this comment?

I don't care whether you believe me or not. This is a fake news at it's best.

Regarding my comments,

[1] That lady is self marketing guru. It's confirmed everywhere even Reddit.

[2] Modern C++ is simpler than TypeScript, Go, Rust. Modern C++ become more like Python.

https://preshing.com/20141202/cpp-has-become-more-pythonic/

https://web.archive.org/web/20131015192353/http://cpp-next.c...

[3] The comment about Christ is a Joke. Can't I make Jokes on HN?

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