On: YC Alum Hacks Jason Calacanis' Voicemail Message to Ask for Investment

[seanmccann]

Here's the story from the founder's perspective: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QkTa-zW...

[jeffreyrogers → seanmccann]

Quoting from that link

> This wasn’t meant to be a malicious hack, but rather a simple social experiment to see how much traction/investor interest I could get.

What matters isn't what it was meant as. What matters is that in doing this you showed your poor judgement.

[minimaxir → seanmccann]

Apparently he later changed the last line from "This wasn’t meant to be a malicious hack, but rather a simple social experiment to see how much traction/investor interest I could get" to "LEGAL DISCLOSURE: I have neither attempted to read or plan to read any voicemails," in the version of the cache I have, which is a telling edit.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/go9lfnxwt9fnax2/My%20Investment%20...

[mvrekic → seanmccann]

I find the post photo where Jason holds a phone with Skurt logo, alluding to an existing relationship equally disturbing.

[pygy_ → mvrekic]

The legend says the image has been modified.

[covercash → seanmccann]

So all he had to do was spoof the number to access voicemail setup? That seems wrong. Would he not need the voicemail passcode as well?

[Andrenid → covercash]

With lots of providers you only need the PIN if accessing voicemail from a number that isn't your own, eg "dialling in" to your voicemail from a payphone/friendsphone/etc (dial your own number, press *)... if it detects it's from your own number, it generally just lets you in without the PIN.

[someotherperson → covercash]

No voicemail passcode was set. The skurt.co folk spoofed his number and set whatever voicemail passcode they chose.