Toronto police seize 'SMS blasters,' a cybercrime weapon never before seen in Canada (nationalpost.com)

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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?

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

cell service is notoriously insecure.

i've always said this of 2fa by sms, just an excuse by providers to wrestle your phone number out of you.

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