Mobile Security Flaw
All mobile phones may be open to a simple but devastating attack that enables a third-party to eavesdrop on any phone conversation, receive any and all SMS messages, and download the phone’s address book.
Binary SMS allows remote users (usually network operators) full access. The vulnerability lays in the lack of authentication when using this feature.
Theoretically:
When this kind of knowledge breaks into the open it often sparks a race, in this case between malicious users and the mobile industry, to find and implement a patch.
One seeks to shut out the black industry, the other the white.
-Shlok
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