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Have you missed how much spam a regular phone was getting regularly? Doesn’t seem difficult to regather such an operation to do SIM swap attacks. With AI the mechanisms are even easier.



I have no idea what you are talking about here. SIM swap and spam texts/calls are entirely different issues.


If it's scalable to mass call a good chunk of the US population, I'm sure it's scalable to mass call providers to socially engineer a SIM swap.


To perform a SIM swap I need an employee at Verizon or whatever to take some steps on their computer (or have their computer infected with a RAT). To call 100,000 people on the phone I just need a computer that can make phone calls.


That's.. not how social engineering works.




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