Phreaking is older than SS7. The story itself is as old as civilization. It was an era of naivety and exploitation of that naivety, not good faith. Unauthentica

Phreaking is older than SS7. The story itself is as old as civilization. It was an era of naivety and exploitation of that naivety, not good faith. Unauthenticated protocols with no user-controlled access is always a bad idea. TCP/IP has firewalls.