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 <s...@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 >