SS7 networks affect aspects of daily life as well as the activities of business and government. Each time you make a call for information, medical emergency assistance, or the physical location of someone using a mobile phone, the SS7 network is used as the underlying data communications mechanism to enable these services. Business and government today also rely heavily on SS7 networks to deliver information quickly and reliably to support a critical and time-sensitive decision-making apparatus. As a result, SS7 is the global standard for telephony.
For this discussion, explain the reasons SS7 was developed and explain its advantages over SS6. Which features does it support today? What SS7 features could be exploited by a hacker, and why?
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