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Re:Hacking the Call Records of Millions of Americans via the... by dotty- on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @08:08PM (#43563306)
> The Verizon Call Filter app uses the endpoint hxxps://clr-aqx.cequintvzwecid.com/clr/callLogRetrieval to lookup call history for the authenticated user and display it in the app.

Have you ever seen a more internal-looking domain name?

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Re:Hacking the Call Records of Millions of Americans via the... by antonvs on Thursday April 03, 2025 @09:12AM (#43569102)
It does look very internal, but the root domain name is more comprehensible than it might appear.

Cequint is a company that provides caller ID services. "Vz" is short for Verizon. "Cid" is short for caller ID. That only leaves "we", which probably refers to either "wireless" or "web" in some way, e.g. wireless/web "edge" or "endpoint".

The domain is therefore the Cequint Verizon Wireless (Web?) Edge Caller ID endpoint.

I don't know what clr or aqx are, though. (I assume CLR is not Microsoft's Common Language Runtime, but I suppose it could be. I know at least one company that likes to name services after the technology used to implement them.)

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Re:Hacking the Call Records of Millions of Americans via the... by cAtte_ on Thursday April 03, 2025 @10:27AM (#43570194)
though it seems a little strange that the name of the endpoint would be repeated three times across the URL (including domain name), it looks like CLR stands for "call log retrieval"
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Re:Hacking the Call Records of Millions of Americans via the... by antonvs on Thursday April 03, 2025 @02:26PM (#43573516)
If it was a snake it would have bit me
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Re:Hacking the Call Records of Millions of Americans via the... by quantified on Thursday April 03, 2025 @01:59PM (#43573229)
"Vzw" probably is Verizon Wireless.
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Re:Hacking the Call Records of Millions of Americans via the... by antonvs on Thursday April 03, 2025 @02:29PM (#43573545)
Oh good point.
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