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New Android SMS of Death exploit can remotely crash unpatched phones (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How come do cellular providers let these malicious SMS messages go through ?
Software, at any layers, is so full of crap.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    Well, they could, but then they’re parsing millions of your SMS messages every time they’re sent for “malicious data” (see: what you say)

    e: barring privacy concerns, this is a pretty resource intensive process for a protocol that carriers really want to care less about

    So it’s kind of a double-edged sword running legacy insecure messaging protocols, eh?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago

    SMS messages are broadcast in plain text often through multiple carriers' networks and I find it impossible to believe they aren't already processing them for a myriad of things anyways. Hell, 20 years ago they were storing them and including them in your phone bill. This is just one more filter to run them through.

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