It's more like three decades. I played with SS7 in the early 1990s
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Point remains, no? Until a competing market caused people to take notice, I'm sure govts enjoyed having it that way.
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"Competing markets" r hackers? No one in the telcos or security services has much interest to change it. SS7 will stay for another 20 years.
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Well, "security" firms, There used to be fewer entities that had legit access to the system.
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For many years focus was on network resilience/ service availability; telcos dealt with SS7 vulnerabilities to protect that
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It's difficult to say - in the 90s and 2000s communications security was not as high a priority for anyone as it is now
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Why would anyone in Government or business want us poor consumer schmucks to know anything?? Particularly that they could hack us all !!!
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