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The wild part: this isn’t a theoretical bug. It’s implementation laziness that other UK networks already solved, as the post notes. ECI leaks have been called o
by Aeyxen 1y ago
The wild part: this isn’t a theoretical bug. It’s implementation laziness that other UK networks already solved, as the post notes. ECI leaks have been called out since LTE rolled out—see papers like https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05007—and https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05007—and automated location mapping is trivial given open mast DBs.
- MortyWaves 1y agoProbably panicking and waiting to be told what to do by the security services that have been using this.
- kylpytakki 1y agoAll of the information leaked in the headers is already readily available through lawful interception.