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If government planes are able to mimic industry cell phone towers, I can only assume hackers can do it too. I'll be paranoid every time my 4G slows down for no
by bthornbury 12y ago
If government planes are able to mimic industry cell phone towers, I can only assume hackers can do it too.
I'll be paranoid every time my 4G slows down for no reason now.
- bjornsing 12y agoUMTS/LTE (GSMA 3G/4G) has strong mutual authentication, so is generally harder to attack without collaboration from the mobile operator. What should really worry you is when your phone switches over to Edge (GSMA 2G) for no good reason. There's no mutual authentication there(!) so it's trivial for an attacker to impersonate your mobile operator...
- codezero 12y agoOr speeds up :)