I agree. Every encryption can be cracked given either infinite resources or time. The goal of encryption is to make it (much) harder to eavesdrop on communicati

I agree. Every encryption can be cracked given either infinite resources or time. The goal of encryption is to make it (much) harder to eavesdrop on communications, often to a point that it's not feasible to do so anymore. Even if SS7 can be exploited in such a way that actually breaks encryption, it adds layers and layers of complexity that makes large scale spying hard or nearly impossible. These kind of attacks require individual approach, which is harder than, for example, logging all plaintext traffic.