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My Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 can be set to WCDMA only.

• deepnet 11y ago
  My phone as well, can it be that trivial to defeat Stingrays ?
  • Synaesthesia 11y ago
    Maybe but all phones feature 2G and enabled by default, use it as a fallback, and most carriers in the world still have it.
    • deepnet 11y ago
      Settings > Network Mode > WCDMA only It seems quaintly cyberpunk that the last bastion of civil liberties is a checkbox in a sub > sub > settings menu. Of course the phone menu may be a lie.
      • Synaesthesia 11y ago
        Essentially we have no idea what goes on inside that phone and inside the operators. It's all closed source hardware and software/firmware, and the companiea are pretty much unaccountable to us and could put all kinds of secrets in there. This is why Stallman was actually right all along. When you don't have open, public computer systems, you end up beholden to these huge entities.