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revelation on Nov 1, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer

The cell tower is trusted, and the preferred cell tower is the one with the strongest signals. That's literally the entire selection strategy.

Cell towers also choose the encryption that the cell phone should use. I don't think any currently available phone notifies you when no (A5/0) or weak (A5/1) encryption is used.

digi_owl on Nov 1, 2016 [–]

And then there is the whole "notification fatigue" issue, where people will dismiss or ok notifications because they get so many in a day.

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