[180173] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: gmail security is a joke
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Maslak)
Wed May 27 09:42:22 2015
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In-Reply-To: <20150527131119.GA12103@pob.ytti.fi>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 07:42:19 -0600
From: Joel Maslak <jmaslak@antelope.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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I also suspect not every telco validates number porting requests against
social engineering properly.
A telephone number isn't something you have, it is something your provider
has.
On Wednesday, May 27, 2015, Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi> wrote:
> On (2015-05-27 14:19 +0200), Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> > If someone has the ability to hijack your BGP, then you???ve got bigger
> problems than
> > having them take over your Gmail account.
>
> This is second reply to this notion. I don't understand what is attempted
> to
> communicate. I'm sure no one on nanog thinks BGP hijacks are rare,
> difficult
> or yield to consequences when called out.
>
> > That???s interesting??? Why do you choose to give access to your
> personal SMS messages
> > to so many of your coworkers?
>
> I don't, but they can provision my number to any SIM they want to.
>
> --
> ++ytti
>
