Use A Password On Your Voice Mail

In light of the discovery that thousands of voice mail accounts were broken into in England, voice mail system security has been in the limelight. What is shocking is how mobile phone operators haven’t required passwords to access voice mail systems. Last week AT&T announced that passwords will be turned on by default for their voice mail service.

Telecommunication operators have long viewed that because their systems are closed, it is secure. The belief was that if they confirmed a call coming in to their voice mail system came from a phone number on their network, that was legitimate access, so they did not require a password.

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