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Re:Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk by ryan-c on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @06:44PM (#14974450)
People do routinely screw with the cell phone networks there. Here's what happened to my burner phone this year: https://twitter.com/ryancdotorg/status/891558627986751492

I'd tried to force the phone to LTE only, but I'm not sure whether it worked.

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Re:Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk by mercwear on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @06:59PM (#14974550)
Yep. There were several fake towers setup that would allow man in the middle attacks for phones / networks that were insecure.
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Re:Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk by soft_serve on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @08:43PM (#14975235)
Exactly. I don't think the guy who said "nobody uses a burner phone" has ever been to DEFCON. And given that phones cost $10.00 why not?

If people are on iPhones, they're on their old one.

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Re:Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk by willstrafach on Thursday August 10, 2017 @02:23PM (#14982596)
> And given that phones cost $10.00 why not?

Because most burner phones use 2G or maybe 3G, both significantly weaker than LTE.

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