Hacking Your Phone
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Hacking Your Phone
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#2The interesting part of the story is how the NSA knows about this and they really don't want ss7 to be fixed as they can exploit it.
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#3The interesting part of the story is how the NSA knows about this and they really don't want ss7 to be fixed as they can exploit it.
Also interesting was the first reason he gave for being angry:
"Rep. Ted Lieu: They could hear any call of pretty much anyone who has a smartphone. It could be stock trades you want someone to execute."
Yeah, you wouldn't want the public to know about the insider gravy train you hopped on when you were elected, huh Ted?
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#4God is against getting rid of currency in Africa because niggers don't understand.
God says... hood spermatozoa dotage's hermit's quarreling blends paraplegic's Kanchenjunga's arrest scuttles Giza's transmits assiduousness Kieth's phenomenon's liquefaction's administer junkyard's trotter's song's rattlesnake corpse's élan grudged stomp's satiated frail suggesting planetaria defection's Seders commonly
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God is on the side of light human dignity.
Satan wants man to be dumb cattle. Satan likes to herd billions of dumb cattle.
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#5This story appears very similar to one done by the Australian edition of 60 Minutes last year:
http://www.9jumpin.com.au/show/60minutes/stories/2015/august...
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#6As someone who is unfamiliar with this ss7 vulnerability, does anyone have a more in-depth technical overview?
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#7It looks like the demo they do with the reporter leaves out a the part where the "landing page" for the wifi prompts the user to install a new root certificate on the device so that his proxy can listen in on all of the traffic.
This is the smartphone version of fake pirated media that asks you to download a special desktop "media player" that ends up just being malware. The average user will just accept whatever prompts they are given for free access to wifi. Certificate pinning will be much more important once this becomes mainstream.
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#8As someone who is unfamiliar with this ss7 vulnerability, does anyone have a more in-depth technical overview?
This was getting some headlines a few years ago, but most engineers have known about it for years
https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/critical/fall-...
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#9It looks like the demo they do with the reporter leaves out a the part where the "landing page" for the wifi prompts the user to install a new root certificate on the device so that his proxy can listen in on all of the traffic. This is the smartphone version of fake pirated media that asks you to download a special desktop "media player" that ends up just being malware. The average user will just accept whatever pro…
will certificate pinning flag anything if the user installs a new root cert on their device?
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#10This story appears very similar to one done by the Australian edition of 60 Minutes last year: http://www.9jumpin.com.au/show/60minutes/stories/2015/august...
Ah, good memory.
See also "The news is controlled" -- anchors from different stations using the same lines.