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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by briandear on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:53PM (#18728497)
And your SMS is logged as well as cell towers to which you connect. Is the “phone company” more secure than any other? If you really are someone in need of a tin foil hat, you should ditch the phone completely and communicate solely with dead drops and one-time pads.
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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by LinuxBender on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:33PM (#18729807)
SMS is actually clear text over SS7. I would not send anything I care about over it. It is also trivial to spoof.

All you need is 1 SS7 link and you can be any phone, kick anyone off a cell site, override call congestion and bump people off, change the display on your phone to any text, too many things to name.

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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by jakeogh on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:13PM (#18729635)
Fun to watch the venerable "tin foil hat" lose it's luster.
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