mikeha wrote:The so-called "jacking" must be all in-game, it's just not feasible for someone out there to have the knowledge to hack into answering machines, fake call-backs to people who called the number, and to stay one step ahead of game players every step of the way.
Actually, all of this would be possible with just one "hack" of the cellphone number.
1. The hackers auto-dialed enough to get through to the voicemail menu.
2. Therefore they can retrieve any messages (i.e., get phone numbers for the two people we know of).
3. And they can also leave any outgoing message they want.
4. And they can also change the password so that even Cassie can't fix her own phone.
Once step 1 above was done, the other three steps would take just a few minutes. It would be just like the hackers owned the phone number themselves.
I would suspect teenage phone phreakers did this. They make a sport out of doing it to each other, so doing it to something as popular as Cassie would be an even bigger sport.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking
I agree this is sort of "in-game," in that whoever Cassie is has to deal with this somehow. That Cassie dealt with it first by calling certain players liars for having received calls suggests to me that it was not at all planned. Cassie couldn't count on those two players being so cool about it. Cassie's reaction was just too sloppy to be planned.
Plus, the game hasn't achieved anything significant by the phonejacking. The Cassie people went through all this just to have Cassie say "Wait"?