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points by rvba 18 hours ago | 0 comments

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.

[–] izacus 13 hours ago

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.

[–] DaSHacka 8 hours ago

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)