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>SS7 signaling system is insecure

If people knew how telcom (and the internet) was held together with bubblegun and duct tape...

Multiple proposed fixes and replacements to SS7, to the best of my knowledge none of them are going anywhere. And even if it was pushed hard, it has to be a global thing.



Governments and the security industrial complex do not want it fixed. Vulnerabilities in SS7 are features to exploit, not bugs.


More than that it's the amount of work and cost. Average consumer doesn't care about it so why fix something that's not broken. People won't pay more for it




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