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rrrrr  ·  3522 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Android security mystery – ‘fake’ cellphone towers found in U.S

As people on reddit have pointed out, there are two problems with this article:

1. It's inaccurate to call them "fake towers" and put up a picture of a tower, because this suggests someone is installing large-scale fake infrastructure. They are actually interception devices that could be quite small and running out of a little room or a vehicle somewhere.

2. The article has rather too many plugs for a particular model of "hardened" Android phone. Someone somewhere has been lazily recycling press releases.

With those two caveats, the concern about someone spying on our cellphones is legit.





cgod  ·  3521 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you read the article and think people are building fake cell phone towers than you are a fucking moron.