Yes, you have the chance of a breakin. But they have to have the user id and password before the confirmation code goes out. And when the cell phone number is transferred to a replacement phone or when the employee supplies the new cell phone number the vulnerability ends.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 1:32 PM Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 13:08:17 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: > > >SMTP. Email to phonenum...@carrier.com > >https://www.wikihow.com/Email-to-a-Cell-Phone > > > It may not be so simple. The link above takes me ultimately > to a service selling background information (for a previous > owner of my phone number.) > > But a while ago, I discovered mine by sending an IM to my > email address and scraping the From: address. > > But this seems not to work for the popular Comcast. > > What if someone steals your phone? > > >On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 10:42 AM Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 08:50:34 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: > >> > >> >Text a six digit number to a list of cell phone numbers? Add the > >> >number to the cell phone number so subtracting the six digit number > >> >gives you the last 6 digits of the person's cell phone number? > >> > > >> Is there an app for that? > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
