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From: Thomas.Farmer@actrix.co.nz (Thomas Farmer)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Answering Machine Security
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Date: 16 Jul 90 09:14:21 GMT
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    I know of some people who have extensively hacked into at least
one voice mail system. It wasn't hard ... all new accounts default to
a password of 0000. Most people don't bother changing them.  Password
length is limited to four digits unlike some other systems.
 
    Irony: One of the hacked voice mail boxes (with a password of
0000) belonged to a computer security consulting company!!!! :-)


mail:  tfarmer@actrix.co.nz   (I think)