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5G network flaws could be abused to let hackers spy on your phone (www.techradar.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

yawn. HTTPS solves this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Ive installed so much crap voluntarily, I don't think I have any private data left. Why would they even bother?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Joke's on them. I still use a flip phone, lol.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I’d like to dig up some technical information on this. It has a lot of claims of what hackers can do but how do they do it at a technical level? Is using VPN helpful? Stuff like that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Hackers just released data on 3 billion people. Feels like there's no point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

“Flaw”. Sure. Okay.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

What, you mean like facebook and google?

[+] [email protected] -23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

what is the benefit to end user from 5G?

And all these features for the threat actors lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Higher peak data rate, lower latency, more network capacity are basically the main improvements for phone users. Partially because the whole radio protocol (among other things) was redesigned to reduce overhead and also because of the new mmWave bands which have enormous bandwidth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can't tell the difference in everyday usage. Speeds are surely as fuck ain't any better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Was a massive improvement here. Went from 50mbps down with a decently long delay when loading new pages to 800Mbps with basically instant page loading.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I never seen anything nearing 800mbps for cell phones outsid of corpo propaganda but maybe your area is not as congests as tests in major cities

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I am not in the downtown core, but and pretty well right in the middle of a 1 million population city. I do believe the 5G tower is on the building right beside mine though, so I may just be lucky.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Haven’t we always known this? It’s the same concept as a Stingray device, which is used to spy on people because their devices connect to it automatically, assuming it’s a normal cell tower. People don’t know what tower they’re connected to, so if you connect to a “fake” or exploited tower, you’ve basically handed over the keys. This is essentially the same thing, but on a 5g network, which is presumably made up of even more nodes/towers.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Stingrays generally use 2G, as the security on earlier standards was pretty lax/broken. I thought that tower spoofing wasn't possible on 4G/5G?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

4G had a lot of the same issues as 3G, but 5G was a complete redesign (including security). It was supposed to have been way harder to break than previous generations.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago

Always assume that even if not publicly available, some agency has knowledge of how to spy on you.