Sorry, Wrong Number: Mysteries Of The Phone System - Past and Present
DEF CON 23 · 2015
Presenter: Unregistered436 Patrick McNeil · Snide Owen
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Research dataset: Lukas Walter, Clemens Sauerwein, Daniel Woods, InfoSec.pptx, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15989593, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Changes: metadata extraction, exact-match reconciliation and uncertainty flags. No endorsement implied.
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