philpraxis

Video of emerge available.

Not in the public's eyes...

And operators will do everything to keep it that way. Including covering up major compromise.

Re : barrier to entry

You're wrong: it's extremely (and increasingly) easy to hack an operator in say africa or asia and then use their SS7 interconnection to send traffic.

Of course, DoS is the thermonuclear option. Most of the attacks are much more silent. Btw, before we released our IDS there even were no detection equipment available for operators.

See the comment on the article for the right quotes.

Of course, it's only one or more hlr per network and per country. Now you're right for the hlr affecting only Mobiles and not ADSL nor fixed lines.