@fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoTwo men arrested for creating illegal telephone mast in the UKwww.datacenterdynamics.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1236arrow-down18
arrow-up1228arrow-down1external-linkTwo men arrested for creating illegal telephone mast in the UKwww.datacenterdynamics.com@fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squareOrbitJunkielinkfedilinkEnglish13•1 year 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@rbesfe@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish11•1 year agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher
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