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Many reasons, you name it: - Almost any existent device will likely be connected to the Internet through 5G almost as fast as it became available - Access pro
by 123tqtqetrqgasd 7y ago
Many reasons, you name it:
- Almost any existent device will likely be connected to the Internet through 5G almost as fast as it became available
- Access probably will be a LOT cheaper than 4G, will get there a lot faster (months not years), so everybody will be onboard ASAP
- 5G network could easily replace many fiber optic deployments currently used by telecommunication companies big clients (so if you breach the 5G infrastructure, you're reaching internal networks in banks, trust funds, government sensitive information offices, whatever fancy dangerous stuff not suitable for public access)
- 5G is REALLY FAST and RELIABLE, (very hight bandwith plus very, very low latency), so if you hack into something, or if you deploy malware, it will spread faster than the Thanos snap. The data exfiltration - taking your stolen data out to your infrastructure - could take a LOT less than now, this probably means the bad guys could hack out a lot more data than now, also probably using a "raw" approach: if you get in, just transfer everything you can access, right now
- The massive (freaking massive) traffic you're going to see into the network monitoring infrastructure will probably be very similar to what Five Eyes currently sees for entire countries, but in city per city base (NY, Boston, DC, Berlin, Barcelona, etc.), so initially very few players will be able to get out something meaningful from the monitoring stuff, but what devices failed: more bad guys oportunities.
Finally.
- Whoever makes the hardware has the upper hand, you - whoever you are - go behind them, in almost any security scenario.
So yeah, we need to have this stuff under some serious control.
Trump is almost certainly right in his attemp to make what he's doing.
- TomVDB 7y agoWhat is it that makes 5G cheaper than 4G? In the past, faster almost always mean a denser network of costly towers. Is that different for 5G?
- otoburb 7y agoThere are two ways to answer that question: 1) In order to stimulate (or meet, depending on which side of the supply-demand equation you represent) demand for 5G, wireless operators will most likely need to increase data caps (e.g. Canada) and keep the same prices, because 5G speeds are much faster than 4G. This means that "wireless access" denominated in "$/MB" will likely drop. 2) 5G equipment is not necessarily cheaper than 4G. Depending on the spectrum bands used, 5G may in fact be more expensive. A recent April 2019 Wapo article[1] kind of speaks to some of the issues with the US settling on 24-300Ghz vs. rest of the world settling on sub-6Ghz bands. But the answer from a wireless operator point of view is that 5G is probably much more expensive than 4G, not less. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/on-5g-the-united-states-is-building-betamax-while-china-builds-vhs/2019/04/18/1b9cd096-620c-11e9-bfad-36a7eb36cb60_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/on-5...
- nixpulvis 7y agoSo it's fast, and therefore bad things happen faster? Bullshit. Also I want to say that wireless communication will never be technically superior to something shielded in some way, and if you can afford it, and you don't need to move around, it will always be a better choice. The fact some ISPs can compete with cable using wireless modems is more a statement about wire ownership laws than anything else.