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Show HN: Hacking SMS Voting

18 points| jonathanhculver | 13 years ago |jonathanhculver.tumblr.com | reply

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[+] arxanas|13 years ago|reply
Tropo looked good. I signed up. And then I changed my password...

> The password you have entered is invalid. Passwords may contain numbers, letters, dashes, periods, and underscores.

I guess I'm not using it.

[+] jonathanhculver|13 years ago|reply
That's too bad. I love them because they allow you to do all development for free and only pay when you release to production.
[+] sarvagyavaish|13 years ago|reply
did Tropo not require any kind of verification on the phone numbers you were sending messages from?
[+] toast0|13 years ago|reply
Those are numbers assigned to his tropo account (at $3/month per number for a Tropo production account); Tropo doesn't allow for sender spoofing on SMS.

I'm not sure why his company would run an internal SMS voting campaign, and not limit to phone numbers from the employee address book, but I'm guessing they'll start that pretty soon.

[+] jonathanhculver|13 years ago|reply
They require an outbound token associated with your app