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You Can Spy Like the NSA for a Few Thousand Bucks

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It turns out the highly unsecured SS7 global communications backbone—and a surveillance favorite for spies—is disturbingly cheap and easy to for anyone to get access to.

Joseph Cox

Published Nov. 3 2017 5:26AM EDT

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Joseph Cox

Joseph Cox

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