> But if the 4G equipment doing the encrypting tunneling at both ends is potentially compromised how does that encryption help? The major attack vector for the

> But if the 4G equipment doing the encrypting tunneling at both ends is potentially compromised how does that encryption help? The major attack vector for the compromised 4G equipment is the remote deactivation (or a wipeout or both) of it by an adversary. Breaking the encryption on the fly for volumes of traffic traversing mobile core networks is still technologically challenging. Hence the plain text communication can still be considered somewhat protected.