Social media in Turkey harbors many more ‘other’ agendas than in the rest of the world. Last night we witnessed another of these strange agendas. A person whose name has not yet been released, Jarein He made false reports to the emergency services via the telephone numbers of some popular broadcasters in Turkey, such as. In other words, the caller was this unnamed person, but the other party could see the broadcasters’ numbers.

Jahrein, who was live during the false reports, had the following interesting dialogue after the emergency teams returned:

The person who made the false reports called Jahrein after the events, confessed to his crime and explained why he did such a thing. “It is so easy to call someone else’s number in Republic of Turkiyethe owner of the fake reports said: Disagreement is forbidden While reminding us, he claimed that he had made the false reports for protest purposes.

Moments when the person who made the false reports confesses to his crime:

So how could this ‘mystery protester’ call someone else’s number?

The secret is, Signaling system No. 7 (SS7) stored in the protocol. This protocol was created for initiating and terminating public telephone calls, but can also be used for calling, number porting, billing, SMS and other services.

Research to date has already shown that the SS7 protocol has significant security issues, such as tracking caller location, intercepting voice data, and intercepting two-factor authentication keys. A hacker using the SS7 protocol making a phone call on behalf of someone else It’s not easy, but what we experienced last night shows that this possibility is not small at all, and we cannot say that we are absolutely safe, especially when our personal data is sold on the Internet for the price of a zurna wrap . .