@VITecNet to [email protected]English • 1 month ago5G network flaws could be abused to let hackers spy on your phonewww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square17arrow-up1166arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareJustinlinkfedilinkEnglish12•1 month agoStingrays generally use 2G, as the security on earlier standards was pretty lax/broken. I thought that tower spoofing wasn’t possible on 4G/5G?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish30•1 month agoAlways assume that even if not publicly available, some agency has knowledge of how to spy on you.
minus-squareBZ 🇨🇦linkfedilinkEnglish8•1 month ago4G had a lot of the same issues as 3G, but 5G was a complete redesign (including security). It was supposed to have been way harder to break than previous generations.
Stingrays generally use 2G, as the security on earlier standards was pretty lax/broken. I thought that tower spoofing wasn’t possible on 4G/5G?
Always assume that even if not publicly available, some agency has knowledge of how to spy on you.
4G had a lot of the same issues as 3G, but 5G was a complete redesign (including security). It was supposed to have been way harder to break than previous generations.