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8mo ago

Two men arrested for creating illegal telephone mast in the UK

www.datacenterdynamics.com Two men arrested for creating illegal telephone mast in the UK

The mast was used to send thousands of smishing text messages to the public

Two men arrested for creating illegal telephone mast in the UK

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He installed a fake antenna? like a fake cellular radio tower? how is it possible that phones just randomly trust this antenna? they explain very little in the article.
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher
  
  lovely, and my phone won't let me block 2G.
- Short answer: security through obscurity

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