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why do you think that? Presumably Google Voice uses a phone company downstream, which means if that company is hacked they can reassign your number to someone e
by computing 4y ago
why do you think that? Presumably Google Voice uses a phone company downstream, which means if that company is hacked they can reassign your number to someone else and thus you have the classic SIM jacking attack.
- wnevets 4y agoWhich phone company does the hacker call to trick into believing they are Google?
- computing 4y agothey pay-off / trick a T-Mobile employee into re-assigning your Google Voice number to them. It's happened before with Google Fi, but I haven't seen any public information about this happening with Google Voice (yet)
- wnevets 4y ago> they pay-off / trick a T-Mobile employee into re-assigning your Google Voice number to them. Are you saying the Google Voice phone number lock is useless and that any carrier can just steal Google Voice numbers regardless of the lock status?
- computing 4y agohere is a link to a report of that happening to a Google Fi customer: https://old.reddit.com/r/GoogleFi/comments/10pjtie/google_fi_data_breach/j6kysv8/ https://old.reddit.com/r/GoogleFi/comments/10pjtie/google_fi... I don't work at Google and don't know if this is possible with Google Voice. However, Google Fi is their paid service, so I would assume that's the one they'd want to protect the most.
- wnevets 4y agoGoogle Fi has actual SIM cards and behaves like a regular carrier, Voice does not. There arent any SIM cards to be hijacked with Voice because it don't provide cell service.