spoofing Twitter and other SMS-based services
Posted on | April 8, 2007 | 2 Comments
in case you haven’t been aware how easy it is to fake the originating number (‘from’) of an SMS message, ONLamp features a step-by-step guide on spoofing Twitter (and similar services involving authentication mechanisms solely based on the senders phone number). this basically means that attackers only need to know a users associated cellphone number and an SMS-service like FakeMyText to post messages in his name. there goes your identity… 
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May 2nd, 2007 @ 12:33 am
This exploit is also being helped by hoaxmail (http://www.hoaxmail.co.uk)
These websites should be closed down, your cell phone number and email address is yours and should not be copied by others.
July 31st, 2007 @ 3:45 pm
Yeah your right that hoaxmail is quite poor, fakemytext.com seems quite nice though.