[HN Gopher] The Route of a Text Message (2019)
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       The Route of a Text Message (2019)
        
       Author : dewey
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2024-05-25 10:41 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | dang wrote:
       | Discussed at the time:
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       |  _The Route of a Text Message_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18921434 - Jan 2019 (63
       | comments)
        
       | giancarlostoro wrote:
       | There used to be a Google page that showed you the route of an
       | email and went as far as detailing different Google data centers
       | and even showing the physical security guards, and I think how
       | they would shred hard drives no longer in use, and all sorts of
       | detail.
        
       | YouWhy wrote:
       | I think the idea for the format is brilliant. However the piece
       | as written fails to deliver a systemic perspective of text
       | messages, and indeed is borderline incorrect in a few places.
       | 
       | Examples:
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       | - It is incorrect to characterize the SMS as whole as an "SS7"
       | protocol. SMS is a transaction of TP-data protocol units (3GPP
       | 23.040) bridged between several protocol domains, which may
       | include SS7 in the core network areas.
       | 
       | - The SIM is not a party to the SMS transactions as such. It is
       | used as a source of the SMSC Address (SMA) datum, to persist
       | messages (on older devices), and of course for authenticating the
       | phone (UE) as a whole.
       | 
       | I think even those two points add up to a piece that misses its
       | conceptual goal of adding clarity to what is already an extremely
       | complex system.
        
       | shpx wrote:
       | Should also mention that it's almost certainly recorded for all
       | time for the government.
        
       | maxlin wrote:
       | https://archive.is/FWnlT
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       | (yes it's an archive of an archive. But linked archive page is
       | slow)
        
       | ThePowerOfFuet wrote:
       | https://www.vice.com/en/article/kzdn8n/the-route-of-a-text-m...
        
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