Android 16 can warn you that you might be connected to a fake cell tower

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• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wow, only over a decade since this problem was first demonstrated at defcon and the community started finding ways to detect this themselves!

  Glad to have this feature natively, but come on Google.

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• IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• Trebuchet@europe.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There will be a law enforcement workaround within a year, I’d bet, but we need more tools like this to defend users from oppressive surveillance

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