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🚨Telecommunications is unsafe, and it's time for a fix! The Salt Typhoon breach of the US mobile infrastructure from last year is a reminder of how fragile the system is. Let’s explore how 3NUM’s new Bourbon Protocol can revolutionize mobile communication. 🧵👇

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2/ The Internet was designed to be resilient—even if part of the network goes down, communication can continue. Yet, mobile communications (SMS & voice calls) are still using outdated systems that don't leverage the Internet like most other services today. 🤔

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3NUM
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3/ Here's the problem: Privacy and security depend on mobile carriers. When a mobile carrier has an outage, every customer is cut off from the world. You can’t text or make calls, leaving you stranded. When carriers have a breach your private conversations are exposed. 📵💥

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4/ Why is mobile still stuck? It’s all about the SIM card. Your SIM tells the network tower that you’re a paying customer. For data, the SIM grants you access to the Internet. For voice and SMS, it still uses the insecure and outdated SS7 protocol. 😱 #SIMSwap #SS7

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5/ This makes mobile carriers a single point of failure for both Internet access and SMS/calls. If they go down—or worse, get hacked—you lose all ability to communicate, even if you’ve got access to free Wi-Fi at a Starbucks. ☕️🚫📞

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6/ In the Salt Typhoon breach, Chinese hackers “gained access to U.S. telecommunications networks in a sweeping cybersecurity breach and were able to use their positioning to geolocate millions of individuals and record phone calls at will” www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

politico.comChinese hackers used broad telco access to geolocate millions of Americans and record phone callsThe number of telecommunication providers impacted by the massive Salt Typhoon breach is now up to nine, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology Anne Neuberger confirmed.