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Oh what a tangled web we weave........
YourKarmaSuitsYa 5268 reads
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Again the electronics that makes this hobby so accessable and easy to practice leaves a trail in which to indicte us with.

If you have multiple phones on your account, I've run across a potential problem.  At Sprint, any phone line / user on the account can go to the web site, enter the phone # of their handset, click on "I forgot my password" and a password will be sent to their handset.  

This password allows access to the account including detailed call history for every phone on the account.  A suspicious SO / wife / brother in law can then plug some interesting looking phone #'s on your bill into Google and up pops the providers website.  

Even though I don't have detailed call history any more in my paper statement, the on line record exists and is easily accessed.  According to Sprint, this is the system, and there is no way to stop it.  I'll be using a second cell phone from now on!  My guess is that other companies are similar.

As I mentioned in the previous thread, T-Mobile is the same way.

YourKarmaSuitsYa5269 reads

Again the electronics that makes this hobby so accessable and easy to practice leaves a trail in which to indicte us with.

luckylindsey3436 reads

My web pages are not listed on any search engines.  I stopped listing my phone number on the web, too.  I tried searching Google for my digits and my name (which wouldn't even be on the phonecalls list anyhow)and they don't find me. So it would be a dead end once a snoop got a hold of the number.  I am curious, but would suspect that most providers webs are not searchable, as mine.

I've tried a few, and 90% of the time a provider's phone # creates a hit on Google and brings up her ad.  Bad news if someone is poking around your cell phone records.

I had wondered where the detailed info. must be since it was not on my bill. Maybe it is time to change providers, celluar that is.

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