The new security feature makes it more difficult for police and malicious hackers to obtain a person's precise location data from a cell phone company.
Yes, but what triggers it to be disabled? It can’t be in hardware because emergency services differ on location; if it’s a code the emergency services provider sends back, that’s something a stingray could spoof when being in adversary in the middle mode — that is, any outbound call you make is treated as an emergency call.
This thing is supposed to prevent you from getting tracked via cell network. If someone is on to you and is also capable of deploying Stingray in your area then they know about your location about as much as they could from the cell network.
If there’s a stingray in your neighborhood, it’s not likely tracking you; it’s tracking everyone. If the information it gathers on you turns out to be useful in the future, that’s a feature.
Imagine you live in an area where there are street protests. A stingray is set up to identify all the devices that are in the area during a protest.
Then imagine you have an appointment at a government building that lines up with a called in threat. The stingray at that building ID’s your phone as having been at the protest and bingo! You’re considered guilty until you can prove your innocence.
Of course, with this tech, there’d be no way to differentiate between protesters and homeowners, whereas right now the location is accurate enough to tell them apart.
If there’s a Stingray in your neighbourhood and it wasn’t meant for you then law enforcement started to replace regular cell network with Stingrays, which is unlikely. A phone knows it’s dialling emergency number because it’s preprogrammed into SIM.
Yes, but what triggers it to be disabled? It can’t be in hardware because emergency services differ on location; if it’s a code the emergency services provider sends back, that’s something a stingray could spoof when being in adversary in the middle mode — that is, any outbound call you make is treated as an emergency call.
This thing is supposed to prevent you from getting tracked via cell network. If someone is on to you and is also capable of deploying Stingray in your area then they know about your location about as much as they could from the cell network.
If there’s a stingray in your neighborhood, it’s not likely tracking you; it’s tracking everyone. If the information it gathers on you turns out to be useful in the future, that’s a feature.
Imagine you live in an area where there are street protests. A stingray is set up to identify all the devices that are in the area during a protest.
Then imagine you have an appointment at a government building that lines up with a called in threat. The stingray at that building ID’s your phone as having been at the protest and bingo! You’re considered guilty until you can prove your innocence.
Of course, with this tech, there’d be no way to differentiate between protesters and homeowners, whereas right now the location is accurate enough to tell them apart.
If there’s a Stingray in your neighbourhood and it wasn’t meant for you then law enforcement started to replace regular cell network with Stingrays, which is unlikely. A phone knows it’s dialling emergency number because it’s preprogrammed into SIM.