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pseud0r
on June 12, 2017
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Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking i...
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.
disiplus
on June 12, 2017
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SS7 is harder to obtain and alot of good operators have now protectons for hiacking via SS7.
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Even so, hackers can still use SS7 to hijack phone numbers.