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Re:Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking into Ema... by pseud0r on Monday June 12, 2017 @03:42AM (#14535680)
Where I live you need a copy of your passport to port a number, in addition the new sim can only be sent to your government registered address, I think that would be quite hard to game.

Even so, hackers can still use SS7 to hijack phone numbers.

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Re:Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking into Ema... by disiplus on Monday June 12, 2017 @04:17AM (#14535792)
SS7 is harder to obtain and alot of good operators have now protectons for hiacking via SS7.
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