Security Leaks from Poor Programming

This reminds me of the time one of my computer science professors said that he thought we were all good programmers but there wasn’t a chance in hell he would trust us to do the software on his mom’s pacemaker. It’s pretty hard to think of everything, but I think this one should have been caught.

Who’s Reading Your Cell’s Text Messages?

Bubrouski said he was just being clever when he signed up for a Verizon vText account with the user name ‘null,’ after his parents bought him his first mobile phone during his freshman year at Northeastern, in 2001.

“I’ve been paying for it ever since.”

I hope he has unlimited text messages.

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