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Re:Bezos Investigation Says the Saudis Obtained His Private ... by yellow_lead on Saturday March 30, 2019 @07:15PM (#19532586)
I would assume that a malicious CLEC on SS7 could easily intercept SMS or MMS messages like these .
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Re:Bezos Investigation Says the Saudis Obtained His Private ... by ardy42 on Saturday March 30, 2019 @07:48PM (#19532731)
If anyone else is curious about those acronyms, this is what I think they might mean:

CLEC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_local_exchange_car...

SS7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7#Protoc...

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