Comment by t_mahmood
10 hours ago
If that happens, I think the actors will have more serious things to hack around then phone-looping some poor souls
10 hours ago
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.
But that's temporary, and phones can roam to other carriers. Bricking large swaths of consumer devices is a much more permanent effect, especially for non-phones (think modern cars, PoS terminals, and other devices with SIMs)