A Major Wireless Network Flaw Is Still Being Exploited to Track User Locations

Re:A Major Wireless Network Flaw Is Still Being Exploited to... by flemhans on Monday December 28, 2020 @11:26AM (#25560450)

We bought access to SS7 through a Jordan telco just to make prank calls and get the cell id of our friends to welcome them into different parts of town by SMS (like when you get a welcome sms in another country)

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Re:A Major Wireless Network Flaw Is Still Being Exploited to... by martimarkov on Monday December 28, 2020 @11:48AM (#25560678)

Out of curiosity how much did it cost?

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Re:A Major Wireless Network Flaw Is Still Being Exploited to... by voodootrucker on Monday December 28, 2020 @09:04PM (#25565849)

Last time this came up on HN, I believe it was $5000

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Re:A Major Wireless Network Flaw Is Still Being Exploited to... by kjaftaedi on Monday December 28, 2020 @03:47PM (#25563033)

How did you know where the cell ids were located. Did you figure this out yourselves, or were you able to get this information somewhere?

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Re:A Major Wireless Network Flaw Is Still Being Exploited to... by flemhans on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:50AM (#25580209)

We figured it by seeing the cells they were typically connected to when we knew for sure that they were in a specific part of town. So trial and error basically.

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