{"id":4762,"date":"2006-09-07T17:14:08","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/pretexting.html"},"modified":"2006-09-07T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T17:14:08","slug":"pretexting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/pretexting.html","title":{"rendered":"Pretexting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I wrote about the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/to-catch-a-spy-hp-style.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">HP and the spying scandal<\/font><\/a> yesterday. Now it seems the investigators HP hired illegally got a hold of the reporter&rsquo;s phone records by pretexting or pretending they are someone else. This is sometimes illegal according to this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Reporters+records+hacked+in+HP+probe\/2100-1014_3-6113362.html?tag=nl.e498\"><font color=\"#800080\">article<\/font><\/a> &ndash; and I am trying to understand when this is legal &ndash; seems like a no brainer that this is against the law.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about the HP and the spying scandal yesterday. Now it seems the investigators HP hired illegally got a hold of the reporter&rsquo;s phone records by pretexting or pretending they are someone else. This is sometimes illegal according to this article &ndash; and I am trying to understand when this is legal &ndash; seems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[1336,1337],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}