Comment by rvba
9 hours ago
a bad actor can hack the carrier and brick the phones the same way the fridges were hacked and bricked few weeks ago
perhaps even a rogue employee
9 hours ago
a bad actor can hack the carrier and brick the phones the same way the fridges were hacked and bricked few weeks ago
perhaps even a rogue employee
If that happens, I think the actors will have more serious things to hack around then phone-looping some poor souls
Why would you assume that? Being able to brick a substantial portion of citizen's devices would be of great value to many adversaries abroad.
They could just... take down the mobile network without having to go through the hassle of bricking your phone individually.
And it's not that hard, bring down a VPN or some core routing service.