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
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    29 days ago

    So old people and the technologically illiterate.

    Or anyone else who has a distracted momentary lapse of judgement.

    Plenty of tech savvy younger people who should know better fall victim to those scams too.