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minus-squareJustinAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months 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-squareMrPoopbutt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·3 months agoAlways assume that even if not publicly available, some agency has knowledge of how to spy on you.
minus-squareBZ 🇨🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months 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.