Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shaknais" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>shaknais</span></a></span> Yeah, but that's a general issue that won't go away that way.</p><ul><li>It's a <em>hamfisted approach</em> like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sony</span></a> removing <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OtherOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OtherOS</span></a> from the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PS3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PS3</span></a> instead of updating their <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Hypervisor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypervisor</span></a> accordingly.</li></ul><p>It your <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NatSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NatSec</span></a> can be cormpromised by <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SS7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SS7</span></a> and your military personnel doesn't employ basic <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ITsec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ITsec</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpSec</span></a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ComSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComSec</span></a>, then I'd call that <em>criminal neglect</em> and at that level one may just give up on the entire illusion of NatSec instead.</p><ul><li>Also that Shutdown is in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a>, not the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a>, but regardless, Nations could just ban <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SS7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SS7</span></a> instead (if they weren't busy developing <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Govware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Govware</span></a> all the time - see <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OperationIronside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OperationIronside</span></a> !) and/or invest in actually <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/secure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>secure</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> infrastructure instead.</li></ul><p>OFC <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GSM</span></a> itself is full of Govware-<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Backdoors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Backdoors</span></a> ranging from the A5/x - series of ciphers to it's core structure, but sadly we now got that shitshow and have to workaround it.</p><ul><li><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoLTE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoLTE</span></a> just isn't reliable enough for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/EmergencyServices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmergencyServices</span></a> - even civilian ones...</li></ul>