How come do cellular providers let these malicious SMS messages go through ?
Software, at any layers, is so full of crap.Well, they could, but then they’re parsing millions of your SMS messages every time they’re sent for “malicious data” (see: what you say)
e: barring privacy concerns, this is a pretty resource intensive process for a protocol that carriers really want to care less about
So it’s kind of a double-edged sword running legacy insecure messaging protocols, eh?
SMS messages are broadcast in plain text often through multiple carriers’ networks and I find it impossible to believe they aren’t already processing them for a myriad of things anyways. Hell, 20 years ago they were storing them and including them in your phone bill. This is just one more filter to run them through.
