Journey to the center of PSTN - I became a phone company

Name: Journey to the center of PSTN - I became a phone company
Description: Enzo Damato's DEF CON 33 talk is a tour-de-force walkthrough of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) from the inside—not from the perspective of a hacker probing someone else's infrastructure,

Enzo Damato

DEF CON 33 · Day 1 · Main Stage

Enzo Damato's DEF CON 33 talk is a tour-de-force walkthrough of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) from the inside—not from the perspective of a hacker probing someone else's infrastructure,

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Enzo Damato obtained a real CLEC license, built actual carrier interconnects, and then systematically documented how the PSTN's trust model is structurally broken — from caller ID spoofing to STIR/SHAKEN attestation fraud to SMS OTP interception — all from a legally authorized insider position.

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