SMS non-hole discovered by CEO of Draym in Belgium

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Fabrice Myard, the CEO of Draym, a Belgian company that hosts websites, has demonstrated how SMS can be sent using someone else’s number and at the person’s expense with a simple programme available to users online.

All the operators are concerned that the simplicity of the programme could result in large-scale fraud.

Fabrice Myard uses SMS and had, from another phone, used his caller ID to unlock his comany’s servers remotely. He had searched for the programme to do this as he had misplaced his mobile phone. He managed to unlock the server in less the 20 minutes.

He only appreciated the gravity of this shortcoming of the SMS system later and reported the programme to the authorities.

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