Comment by DaSHacka
7 hours ago
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.
7 hours ago
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)