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?

  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    21 hours ago

    No one in the western world who has a smart phone is not aware of phone scams.

    Yet people still fall for them every day.