[VoIP] Office code assignment wiki hacked

[Greg Blakely]

We could certainly do some sort of behind-the-scenes authentication, and
that may actually be the best route.  Instead of the 'reserve, register,
and activate' scenario, it could end up being 'register, reserve, and
activate.'


> -----Original Message-----
> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] 
> On Behalf Of Ian Jolly
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 4:09 AM
> To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches
> Subject: Re: [VoIP] Office code assignment wiki hacked
> 
> Might it be an idea such that only 'registered' CNET members 
> can get access to the WiKi ?
> 
> After all those interested enough will have 'registered' so 
> we should have some idea as to who they are. In the UK all 
> the CNET members except one are know to at least one of the 
> main CNET users.  On this side of the 'pond', some of us had 
> thought that it was rather open to abuse.
> 
> Shouldn't be too difficult to link the ckts.info password should it?
> 
> Ian Jolly
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Josephson" <david at josephson.com>
> To: "Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches" <voip at lists.ckts.info>
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 6:45 AM
> Subject: [VoIP] Office code assignment wiki hacked
> 
> 
> > Sometimes these things just happen, I guess two years is a 
> good record.
> >
> > The CNET wiki page for office code assignments was hacked 
> yesterday by a
> > very determined robot, whi't just  appeared to be simultaneously in
> > China, India and in unassigned IP address space. So, instead of
> > www.altaphon.com/cgi-bin/f8n.pl?TelCollNet, change the f8n 
> to etz1k (the
> > fourth character is a numeral 1) ... we have recovered the changes.
> >
> > And while I'm here, I was surprised last week to get an actual call
> > through the crossbar exchange from a list member in San 
> Jose. I think
> > this may have been the first actual CNET call to an actual listed
> > extension, that wasn't just to a test number on the switch, 
> even though
> > it's been online for almost a year. 555-2368 does indeed 
> ring on my desk
> > (through a WE 202 set, no less) and it is not simulated 
> ringback tone.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > --
> > David Josephson
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