Een andere bug die nog steeds werkt... The technology of Short Message Service (SMS) is based on the standardized communications protocols, which allow mobile phone devices to exchange text messages. It started functioning as far as early 1980s, and was hardly ever improved upon. SMS is based on the Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) protocol, which is really old-fashioned and very vulnerable. Some of these vulnerabilities were publicized in 2008, and again in 2014. Actually, the information revealed stated that cell phone movements can be tracked by governments and third parties with a 70% success rate. Around 90% of all mobile operators all over the world are unprotected because of the “holes” in the SS7 protocol. To be more precise, 89% of subscribers’ SMS can be intercepted; 58% of subscribers can be tracked, and half of all phone calls can be wiretapped. These facts are taken from the research conducted by the company Positive Technologies that investigated the security systems of the biggest world ...