Previously on Bottom Line IT we discussed a story regarding phone hacking. On Sunday, 60 Minutes took a year-old segment on phone hacking it shot and aired in Australia, fluffed it up with other old hacks from last year’s Def Con and repackaged it for an American audience.

The 13-minute segment based its hysteria on a hole in phone-routing protocol SS7 (Signaling System 7), a flaw which, incidentally, isn’t easy to exploit. But perhaps thinking the combination of hacker boogeymen and SS7’s potential wouldn’t make for dramatic TV, the show blurred in a handful of different — and extremely unrelated — ways that smartphones can be hacked.

How ’60 Minutes’ Played ‘Telephone’ with Public-Hacking Hysteria