"0000" is a valid password.</pedanatry>>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^possom:
What amuses me is that "hacking cell phones" has turned out to be "guessing voicemail passwords". I bet most of their information was gained by entering 1234 or 1111 into people's voicemail. Hacking? Stupid cell phone users for sure.

There are only 9999 10,000 possibilities and, since voicemail generally doesn't employ any sort of tarpitting or other brute force protections, I'm sure one could write a script to try voicemail passwords pretty rapidly. You don't even have to try them in succession since voicemail systems can handle multiple simultaneous connections.
Why find some clever backdoor or exploit when you can brute force the thing in a matter of an hour?

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^possom:
What amuses me is that "hacking cell phones" has turned out to be "guessing voicemail passwords". I bet most of their information was gained by entering 1234 or 1111 into people's voicemail. Hacking? Stupid cell phone users for sure.

There are only 9999 possibilities and, since voicemail generally doesn't employ any sort of tarpitting or other brute force protections, I'm sure one could write a script to try voicemail passwords pretty rapidly. You don't even have to try them in succession since voicemail systems can handle multiple simultaneous connections.
Why find some clever backdoor or exploit when you can brute force the thing in a matter of an hour?


These guys aren't that smart. The majority of people aren't that smart and so, yes, entering default pins is characterised as "hacking". However it's done it still means an offence under the RIP Act. Of course it would be interesting if they did secure some hacker's services to brute force passwords. Nothing would surprise me from hereon in.

Story goes that some guy in the early days of phone use alerted a tabloid to this problem who surprisingly did not get back to him or run a story based on the tip. What happened is that the practice rapidly spread through Fleet Street. Another little scam journalists would do is hand new phones to crime victims they had access to so they could "stay in touch". The phones either had the default pin or changed to one the journalist knew.

>> ^possom:

What amuses me is that "hacking cell phones" has turned out to be "guessing voicemail passwords". I bet most of their information was gained by entering 1234 or 1111 into people's voicemail. Hacking? Stupid cell phone users for sure.


There are only 9999 possibilities and, since voicemail generally doesn't employ any sort of tarpitting or other brute force protections, I'm sure one could write a script to try voicemail passwords pretty rapidly. You don't even have to try them in succession since voicemail systems can handle multiple simultaneous connections.

Why find some clever backdoor or exploit when you can brute force the thing in a matter of an hour?

And here is Why He Did It (in his own words).

If you can get a pie in someone's face you can get a knife in their throat.

Rupert Murdoch's the most powerful fascist on earth. He's been the de facto ruler of a number of countries, he's resposible for the deaths of thousands and the oppression of millions more, how is this the worst he gets? So tired of amateurs spoiling opportunities like this and making it more difficult for serious people to get the job done.

This isn't a victory for the good guys, it's a joke. If your political protest doesn't have a body count you've accomplished nothing.

>> ^bareboards2:

I loved the woman who jumped in and slapped at the perp. Totally ineffective but man, she was ready to mix it up!


Everything I've read suggests she slapped the guy and then used the pie on him. Which explains why he was wearing most of the foam and the police, oddly, were dabbing it off him on camera.

I posted on another video of this that he didn't get pied but a second look suggests he got some on his coat which explains why he wasn't wearing it after the resumption.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8649124/Phone-hacking-Jonathan-May-Bowles-charged-over-Rupert-Murdoch-attack.html

This article gives a bit more detail, especially about the awesome Wendi Deng.

>> ^bareboards2:

I loved the woman who jumped in and slapped at the perp. Totally ineffective but man, she was ready to mix it up!


I like how his wife just jumps on top of people to get that crappy ass slap in, while completely trampling someone...

This was really stupid. I was watching it live and a few MPs were really grilling the Murdochs, including the one who was interrupted by this pie attack. If you don't like Rupert Murdoch, let him be interrogated! All this did was give him sympathy because you just hit an 80-year old man in the face. Now, instead of the headlines being about some of the questions that were asked and their responses, they're about pie.

This is awesome for so many reasons.

1 - There's an organisation called the PIE BRIGADE.
2 - The guy who does it has the most hilarious outrage voice ever.
3 - Somebody's like what's you're name and he's like EWAN BROWN BITCH.
4 - Guy talks about people being force fed genetically modified food and the cows moo in dissaproval.
5 - There's a fucking montage of pie-facing at the end.
>> ^BoneRemake:




THAT IS HOW YOU DO IT !

>> ^Yogi:
>> ^longde:
@Yogi
That's his wife.

You're fucking joking.


Nope, that his Chinese wife, kind of a beauty. I think she is around 40. Fierce lady.

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>> ^A10anis:

He brought down a major newspaper and has put ALL media on trial. What point would there be in killing him after the disclosure? Of course he may have had much more information but, surely, killing him after the fact would just compound the problem. Still, what do i know? Let the conspiracy theories begin.


I don't care if conspiracies begin or if they're true or not (well, OK if it IS true), because if there is someone on this planet that needs SCRUTINY 24/7 due to this and everything else he has done, it's Rupert Murdoch.

/silver linings

>> ^longde:

@Yogi
That's his wife.


You're fucking joking.