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O2 customer beware at what you are saying over your mobile phone
DANCE OF DEATH
13-02-2013
O2 customers are being told to beware what they are saying over their mobile phone as other customers have been connected to other people's phones and able to listen into the call.


Full Story here.
Lidtop2013
13-02-2013
Haha what a complete fail for O2
Thine Wonk
13-02-2013
A bit of a security flaw surely, especially for businesses. Someone has reported hearing other people talking to their bank!
jabbamk1
13-02-2013
That's why terrorists dont use o2
They use T-Mobile (Taliban Mobile)

My poor attempt at a joke.... shut up!
booie
13-02-2013
Originally Posted by jabbamk1:
“That's why terrorists dont use o2
They use T-Mobile (Taliban Mobile)

My poor attempt at a joke.... shut up! ”

So thats where they get their new name from. When a bomb goes off everythings everywhere.

Il get my coat.
call100
13-02-2013
I thought it was weird the other day...I got cut off from my call and could just hear someone with a broad Scots accent rambling on about a car. ( I think his accent was probably his best security!!).
At least there is now an explanation for it.....
spaceman05
13-02-2013
not just on o2, there is a thread on here about it happening to vodaphone customers as well
The Lord Lucan
13-02-2013
Cornerstone. Where they share your calls as well as thier masts...
Thine Wonk
13-02-2013
Have we had any comment from O2 yet? it was in The Register and some other places online yesterday. Today MoneySavingExpert, if this continues it'll get picked up by the mainstream news.

Just the thought that a very personal conversation could be being listened in to by somebody else without your knowledge is terrible. Why no comment from O2 I wonder?
John_Patrick
13-02-2013
Originally Posted by The Lord Lucan:
“Cornerstone. Where they share your calls as well as thier masts...”

Their BSC's and RAN's are seperate though.

No reason why Voda should be affected.
ajh94
13-02-2013
Originally Posted by jabbamk1:
“That's why terrorists dont use o2
They use T-Mobile (Taliban Mobile)

My poor attempt at a joke.... shut up! ”

Hahaha Taliban Mobile :') http://www.weeville.com/TMAT.jpg
Everything Goes
13-02-2013
Posted about it the other day but was pretty much ignored:

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1797447
DevonBloke
13-02-2013
Originally Posted by ajh94:
“Hahaha Taliban Mobile :') http://www.weeville.com/TMAT.jpg ”

Hahahahaha Hahahahaha
I just nearly wee'd mysefl!
moox
13-02-2013
Originally Posted by spaceman05:
“not just on o2, there is a thread on here about it happening to vodaphone customers as well”

Waaaay in the past it's happened to me on Orange, too, and it must have affected enough people to have news stories on it.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09...odafone_cross/
The Lord Lucan
13-02-2013
Originally Posted by John_Patrick:
“Their BSC's and RAN's are seperate though.

No reason why Voda should be affected.”

Yeah it is very strange.. Someone has broken something somewhere or GCHQ has buggered our mobile networks
stud u like
13-02-2013
This reminds me of the old days when you could listen into calls on a scanner.
tdenson
13-02-2013
Originally Posted by stud u like:
“This reminds me of the old days when you could listen into calls on a scanner.”

This reminds me of the really old days. When I was a child we could only afford a party line with the next door neighbours. This meant if you picked up the phone and heard them on a conversation you had to wait until they finished.
s7uar7
13-02-2013
It happened to someone on Virgin Mobile last week too, they reported it on their forums.

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...s/td-p/1699632
beecart
13-02-2013
O2 report this is now fixed.
Thine Wonk
14-02-2013
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...sed-lines.html

As expected, it's now being reported by more mainstream news sites.
b1ackb1rd
14-02-2013
I was taking to a guy about a car when a female voice speaking Spanish cut across.
Bizarre, never had that happen before
Thine Wonk
14-02-2013
Sounds like it's still happening.

As predicted it's being reported in all the papers now. After last years incident where they spewed out users phone numbers to all websites they visited this is a touch embarrassing.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/new...les-calls.html

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ers-calls.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...listen-in.html
moox
15-02-2013
Originally Posted by Thine Wonk:
“Sounds like it's still happening.

As predicted it's being reported in all the papers now. After last years incident where they spewed out users phone numbers to all websites they visited this is a touch embarrassing.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/new...les-calls.html

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ers-calls.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...listen-in.html”

Unfortunately this is not an O2 exclusive fault, I have had it happen on Orange (and it was reported in media). So wavejockglw will be happy since his precious network cannot be singled out for criticism.
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