Stingray spying: 5G will protect you against surveillance attacks, say standards-setters

Discussion in 'privacy problems' started by ronjor, Mar 23, 2018.

  1. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator

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    ronjor, Mar 23, 2018
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  2. mirimir

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    Good, but don't IMSI catchers depend on phones defaulting to older insecure protocols, if others aren't available?
     
    mirimir, Mar 23, 2018
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    Yep, they mention it at the end of the article:
     
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    In some phones there is an option to force i.e. 3G connectivity. I suspect that in 5G phones there will be non-default option to force 5G, but probably it is not gonna be so popular due to much less coverage.
     
    reasonablePrivacy, Mar 24, 2018
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