SPOTLIGHT: The menace of Hannah Montana

Disney’s “Hannah Montana Wake-Up Call” has apparently been overwhelmed with bad people abusing the power of VoIP.

The service allows you to enter in a phone number on a website to deliver a special pre-recorded message from Miley Cyrus for a wake up call or activity reminder. There’s no sender authentication and no opt-out mechanism or audit trail, so people are doing whatever they want and the system is apparently swamped with some individuals scheduled to receive up to five calls already. Not to mention the potential to game the system for calls to be made at early hours of the morning.

For more:
- Gigaom warns us about Hanna Montana’s bad VoIP habit

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