Police believe thousands of devices were connected to the blaster over several months, and identified over 13 million network disruptions.

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?

  • Nik282000@lemmy.ca
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    23 hours ago

    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.