[DANCE OF DEATH]

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]

Haha what a complete fail for O2

[Thine Wonk]

A bit of a security flaw surely, especially for businesses. Someone has reported hearing other people talking to their bank!

[jabbamk1]

That's why terrorists dont use o2
They use T-Mobile (Taliban Mobile)

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

[booie]

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]

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]

not just on o2, there is a thread on here about it happening to vodaphone customers as well

[The Lord Lucan]

Cornerstone. Where they share your calls as well as thier masts...

[Thine Wonk]

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]

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]

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]

Posted about it the other day but was pretty much ignored:

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1797447

[DevonBloke]

Originally Posted by ajh94

Hahaha Taliban Mobile :') http://www.weeville.com/TMAT.jpg

Hahahahaha Hahahahaha
I just nearly wee'd mysefl!

[moox]

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]

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]

This reminds me of the old days when you could listen into calls on a scanner.

[tdenson]

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]

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]

O2 report this is now fixed.

[Thine Wonk]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...sed-lines.html

As expected, it's now being reported by more mainstream news sites.

[b1ackb1rd]

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]

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]

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.