Re: Verizon Call Intercept

From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: 05/29/02 

To: vuln-dev@securityfocus.com
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 00:33:44 -0400

On Tue, 28 May 2002 16:59:58 PDT, Kenneth Williams <ken@kwilliams.org> said:

> The pin on my service is at least 10 digits in fact they recommend assigning
> the pin as the callers real phone number so it is easy to recognize

How the <expletive> are we supposed to teach users not to use their userid as
their passsword when the telcos are offering this helpful advice?

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