The rest of the world is exploiting the weaknesses intentionally left in US systems.
]]>The problem with SS7 though shows the problem with the FBI’s approach in general: there is no such thing as an unlocked door that only allows law enforcement officers to go through it. You have an unlocked door, criminals will go through it. And frankly, at this point in my life criminals scare me a lot more than the sort of terrorism that the FBI keeps whining about, especially the kind who can reduce you to poverty via identity theft and plain old financial pilfering. I must admit that I have a comfortable life now, but that wasn’t always true, and I have no desire to go back there.
So someone arguing that I must have an unlocked door on my life’s possessions because the FBI needs in… uhm, no. I have locks on my door for a *reason* — because the idiots in the FBI have been completely ineffectual in tackling cybercrime. If they had any record at all of effectively tracking down and prosecuting cybercriminals, maybe I’d feel safer with an unlocked door. But all they ever do is take a report and then nothing ever happens. And they expect me to feel safe with an unlocked door? BULLSH*T!
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]]>’60 Minutes’ asked a security firm to hack an iPhone and we’re all basically screwed
]]>Apple’s battle with the FBI may have whipped the tech world into a frenzy of establishment-hating wannabe anarchists, but it’s this ’60 minutes’ segment that should really piss you off.
Wanting to find out just how safe our phones are from hackers, the 60 minutes team sought professionals from Security Research Labs to break into Congressman Ted Lieu’s iPhone. Lieu, a member of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Information Technology (an acronym that’s dangerously close to spelling h-o-r-s-e-s-h-i-t) agreed to be the team’s guinea pig.
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It’s not apples-to-apples; the researchers weren’t accessing encrypted files or attempting to gain access to the physical device, but what they were able to accomplish with just a phone number is still incredible.
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With those digits alone, the team was able to hear and record Lieu’s phone calls, track his movement, view his contacts and create a log of all incoming and outgoing calls.For the Apple haters out there, hold on to your hats… the hack perpetrated on Lieu will work on any phone, using any carrier, running any operating system, and it’s all thanks to a security flaw in a piece of technology you’ve probably never heard of.
Signaling System 7 (SS7) is a global network that connects all phone carriers around the world into a singular hub, of sorts. The hack exploits a known security flaw in SS7, but one that’s proven relatively difficult to fix due to the way SS7 is governed, or not governed, in this case.
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Fascism is one of the many forms of oligarchy that exist on the basic that the rich should get richer and the poor have to pay for it.
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