Comment on YSK: When you sit in your car and have a speakerphone conversation, there’s no privacy
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
YSK: When you use your phone, there’s no privacy.
When you use your cellphone’s built-in call feature, the antennae inside it radiate, sending signals to your carrier. Everyone in the corporation or government can hear your very intimate or business-related conversation.
YSK: When you have a conversation, there’s no privacy
When you use your built-in vocal chords feature, the tissues in your throat reverberate, sending the sounds outside of your body. Maybe don’t do this while you’re in public. Everyone in the neighborhood or store parking lot can hear your very intimate or business-related conversation.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 days ago
No they don’t. Not by snooping on your cellphone’s radio signals anyway: the transmission to your carrier is encrypted.
The bad guys can intercept your convo in a MITM attack by simulating a tower and getting your phone to connect to it. But they don’t even have to do that: all it takes is subpoenaing your carrier and they’ll hand you over to them like a pig on a spit.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
There’s this talk, where researchers found major cellular networks decrypting people’s conversations at the tower then broadcasting them unencrypted to the entire continent:
…ccc.de/…/39c3-don-t-look-up-there-are-sensitive-…
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
True enough, but can you more closely follow the format of OP for my amusement? I cut the part about collection centers for rhythm ;)
pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Subpoena?!? those were for the before times. Now just say you’re investigating a murder while looking for a woman calling abortion clinics, no legal access, review or consequences for breaking the law.