@NickvNetworking@argvee Thats correct, ss7 protocol suite wasnt really developed with ‘security’ in mind. The ‘communications’ between different subsystems was considered to be safe inside the telco centralized network. The sec concerns raised specially after roaming/interconnect between mobile-nets.
@NickvNetworking As always .. nice blog post Nick, appreciate it. The part you mentioned about early 2K and CS networks :))
“… it’s hard to talk about the machinations of late 2000s telecom executives, without at least mentioning Hitler.”
1) I was reviewing one of my legacy code-base (with absolute pain!) and I noticed obvious mistake on using malloc on complex C++ objects (std::string) ... the interesting part is that software is running with huge load for years and it didnt break :/