cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46348914
TIL your phone apparently does no or easily spoofed authentication of the identity of the base station it decides to connect to. Anyone know more about this and how it’s possible?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46348914
TIL your phone apparently does no or easily spoofed authentication of the identity of the base station it decides to connect to. Anyone know more about this and how it’s possible?
No one in the western world who has a smart phone is not aware of phone scams. Everyone has been told not to trust random links in text messages, usually by the banks and businesses that are being used in these scams, but 'just this time, it looks safe, they’ve always been safe before."
This kind of online-safety thinking needs to be drilled into people like wearing seatbelts and brushing your teeth.
Yet people still fall for them every day.
I don’t even click links from people I know!
You might be more paranoid than I am, but I check every unexpected link from messages claiming to be businesses if I open them at all. Usually I’ll go to their website and check for what the message claims if it seems plausible.