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Willis suggests turning off Wi-Fi calling and Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) to protect against baseband remote code execution, if you're using a vulnerable device powe
by fencepost 4y ago
Willis suggests turning off Wi-Fi calling and Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) to protect against baseband remote code execution, if you're using a vulnerable device powered by Samsung's silicon.
The problem is that that's a very sterile way to say "turn off all voice calling features on affected devices" unless I'm misunderstanding how modern cell networks function. Without VoLTE in pretty sure devices need to fall back to 3G (effectively off in most of the world) or 2G (not much better, though it's still around on one carrier in a lot of places for longer distance coverage as I understand it).
Maybe my understanding is completely off, but this seems like writing an article about terrible flaws in automotive wheel bearings and closing with "we recommend that everyone avoid doing things that require use of wheel bearings."
- Kwpolska 4y agoThere are many countries with some 3G service still available: https://www.thingsmobile.com/2g-3g-network-sunset-dates https://www.thingsmobile.com/2g-3g-network-sunset-dates