A newly discovered vulnerability in text messaging may enable attackers to trace your location, according to Northeastern Ph.D. student Evangelos Bitsikas.
  • vd1nEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    …you know for anyone that thought cell service was safe…

  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Interesting, I guess a mobile hotspot and use your phone without its sim card with WiFi on connected to the hotspot would protect against this.

    • abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      A mobile hotspot is effectively just a mobile without a screen. It would only provide protection from this exploit if sms was fully disabled

      • JoeKrogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        The hotspot would have its own sim card not the one that was in your phone. The one in your phone was removed in this case. The number of the hotspot is not known to the attacker and the phone can still be used for calls and texts via signal or WhatsApp or whatever