RE: Cellphone spam and terrorism

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

Or better (?) yet, That same 14 year old kid, accidentally sends to all cell
phone e-mail addresses with a spammer program that substitutes <your
cityname here> with the city the area code is from:

FEMA & CDC ALERT
For the greater <your cityname here> area!!!
Anthrax attack in progress
Evacuate <your cityname here> at once!


Yikes, either message would cause widespread panic...

 Mike B


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, MCSE, MCP+I 
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 
email:  Blanchard_Michael () EMC COM 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Richard M. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:08 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] Cellphone spam and terrorism

Imagine for a second if some 14-year old kid in Washington DC sent out the
following text message to 50,000 cellphones in the DC area code:

    FEMA Alert:  Anthrax attack in progress -- leave Washington at once.

It's a really bad idea that cellphone email addresses are predictable.
(ie., a cellphone email address is the same as the phone number)

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of David Ulevitch
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:13 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] Thank you Rodney Joffe

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050921/ap_on_hi_te/cell_phone_spam


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