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Sure, but an attack to do what? Even with full hardware access there's nothing that can be done with the network itself, nor can it be used to snoop on other us
by pelorat 4y ago
Sure, but an attack to do what? Even with full hardware access there's nothing that can be done with the network itself, nor can it be used to snoop on other users, nor does it give some access to the satellites themselves. It's akin to rooting your ISP provided modem.
- TechBro8615 4y agoIf you root your ISP provided modem, aren’t you one step closer to exploiting some bug in DOCSIS? Similarly here wouldn’t you be one step closer to exploiting the “network itself?” (Air-quotes because I’m not actually sure what that means in this context.)
- bpodgursky 4y agoIf you root your Android, are you one step closer to hacking the 5G network?
- InitialLastName 4y agoYes, for some definition of the word hacking, because one of the underlying assumptions of the 5G network is that all of the devices operating on it are subject to local regulatory rules (won't behave badly on that spectral region) and rooting your Android phone could potentially give you access to do unacceptable things with the radio, up to and including interfering with other devices using the network.
- bpodgursky 4y agoI guess my point is that this is trivially easy to do but 5G networks in practice have no problem chugging along supporting a bunch of user-controlled devices.
- InitialLastName 4y agoPractically speaking, roughly 100% of those devices are fully regulator-approved and compliant with standards, because roughly 100% are running firmware from vendors who rely on regulatory approval. Essentially 0% of those devices are user-controlled in the "I can make the radio do whatever I want" sense.
- TechBro8615 4y agoI suppose that depends how you define “chugging along.” They might be relatively stable and safe from DDOS, but malicious devices can certainly do damage to other users of a network, in some cases without even connecting to it. For example, an IMSI catcher isn’t technically _connected to_ any cell network, but it does exploit the assumptions of clients who attempt and expect to connect to one.
- russdill 4y agoIf you root the baseband processor, yes.