Mobile Phone Directory - SV650.org

07-07-09, 01:25 PM

Has anyone else heard about this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ch/8091621.stm

If it's true, then why haven't we been informed by our mobile phone company?

yorkie_chris · 07-07-09, 01:29 PM

If you're so paranoid, go PAYG and top up with cash. Anonymous then except if it was tapped and monitored rigorously.

07-07-09, 01:31 PM

I've heard about it. I wouldn't be happy with my mobile number in a directory. The only people who have my mobile number are those I want to- those that would need to get hold of me urgently as well as a those who are friends (not many :P) If people need to get hold of me, they're people that will have some way of contacting me without needing my mobile number.

Spiderman · 07-07-09, 01:47 PM

My mobile number is in a directory? So what?

The fact that the Govt routinely capture an store all my conversations and text messages is far more worrying to me but that seems to bother few people apart from me who think i'm apranoid or something.

Yet this story worries some people more. Odd.

07-07-09, 01:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

If you're so paranoid, go PAYG and top up with cash. Anonymous then except if it was tapped and monitored rigorously.

I'm not paranoid, just don't particularly want all and sundry to have my mobile number. I get enough unsolicited calls to my land line without ones to my mobile as well.

Spiderman · 07-07-09, 01:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by madness

I'm not paranoid, just don't particularly want all and sundry to have my mobile number. I get enough unsolicited calls to my land line without ones to my mobile as well.

List your landline number with the TPS and you should soon be free of most of that rubbish.

tigersaw · 07-07-09, 02:14 PM

they dont give out your number without your permission first

07-07-09, 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spiderman

List your landline number with the TPS and you should soon be free of most of that rubbish.

Already done that, but I still get calls from my bank, utility suppliers etc, usually when I'm eating my evening meal. I've got being abrupt/rude off to a fine art now.

Bri w · 07-07-09, 03:30 PM

It's going to work like 118118 where someone rings up, gives your name (lucky you if its Smith) and they are given your number.

However, if you log onto http://www.118800.co.uk and do "what it says on the can" you can have your number made ex-directory.

07-07-09, 03:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spiderman

that seems to bother few people apart from me who think i'm apranoid or something.

Do what I do & change your name every now & then.

Think I'm onto my 4th name change now (or fifth incl the one on the russia customs & passport control)....

My motto: I may be paranoid....but am I paranoid enough?

07-07-09, 01:25 PM	#1
madness Guest Posts: n/a	Mobile Phone Directory Has anyone else heard about this? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ch/8091621.stm If it's true, then why haven't we been informed by our mobile phone company?

07-07-09, 01:29 PM	#2
yorkie_chris Noisy Git Mega Poster Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Halifax/Leeds Posts: 26,645	Re: Mobile Phone Directory If you're so paranoid, go PAYG and top up with cash. Anonymous then except if it was tapped and monitored rigorously. __________________ Currently Ex Biker Now rebuilding a 63' fishing trawler as a dive boat

07-07-09, 01:31 PM	#3
Sean_C Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Mobile Phone Directory I've heard about it. I wouldn't be happy with my mobile number in a directory. The only people who have my mobile number are those I want to- those that would need to get hold of me urgently as well as a those who are friends (not many :P) If people need to get hold of me, they're people that will have some way of contacting me without needing my mobile number.

07-07-09, 01:47 PM	#4
Spiderman Where the hell am I? Mega Poster Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Swingin' thru the urban jungle Posts: 7,451	Re: Mobile Phone Directory My mobile number is in a directory? So what? The fact that the Govt routinely capture an store all my conversations and text messages is far more worrying to me but that seems to bother few people apart from me who think i'm apranoid or something. Yet this story worries some people more. Odd. __________________ . "Computers are great! Not for communicating tho. They have one fundamental flaw ... they don't have eyebrows." AlpineCarStereo: you win ....... eeerrr ..... ummm ..... my undying support of you, the greatest Mod this forum has ever known. My Leige. davepreston: i bow to your modding godliness. vixis: He's this really cute Persian tea-boy, Im so not giving you his number :P

07-07-09, 02:14 PM	#7
tigersaw Member Mega Poster Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Llanwrtyd Wells Powys Posts: 1,146	Re: Mobile Phone Directory they dont give out your number without your permission first

07-07-09, 03:30 PM	#9
Bri w Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Turre, Almeria Posts: 668	Re: Mobile Phone Directory It's going to work like 118118 where someone rings up, gives your name (lucky you if its Smith) and they are given your number. However, if you log onto http://www.118800.co.uk and do "what it says on the can" you can have your number made ex-directory. __________________ *"It's not the years in your life, it's the life in your years."* Currently - Fighting the urge... seen a nice Triumph America Previously - Honda CB125, Honda CB400-4 & BSA B40, Moto Guzzi 850, Yamaha RD250, Suzuki GT380, Kawasaki Z1B, Kawasaki Z650, Honda VFR, Triumph Street Triple R.

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