@fne8w2ah to TechnologyEnglish • 5 months agoTwo men arrested for creating illegal telephone mast in the UKwww.datacenterdynamics.comexternal-linkmessage-square33arrow-up1236arrow-down18
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minus-squareOrbitJunkielinkfedilinkEnglish13•5 months agoHe installed a fake antenna? like a fake cellular radio tower? how is it possible that phones just randomly trust this antenna? they explain very little in the article.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•5 months agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•5 months agoShort answer: security through obscurity
He installed a fake antenna? like a fake cellular radio tower? how is it possible that phones just randomly trust this antenna? they explain very little in the article.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher
lovely, and my phone won’t let me block 2G.
Short answer: security through obscurity