How to Hack Cell Phone Voicemail like Kevin Mitnick

If you haven’t seen this yet – Kevin Mitnick, author of The New York Times bestselling memoir Ghost in the Wires, demos a quick way for bypassing the password prompt and hacking cellphone voicemail. He shows here a wickedly simple way to listen to other people’s cellphone voicemail.

As effective as it may be, the specific hacker tool Mitnick chooses to show in the video appears more like a toy compared to the far more advanced monitoring techniques now available with the planet’s top 120 surveillance and spyware firms.