ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance

Re:ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone su... by tbihl on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @04:30PM (#21766997)

5G is by nature shorter range, which at least makes the surveillance harder to do and more targeted when it happens. But I can't say much for the protocol, having not done much with it.

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Re:ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone su... by xucheng on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @05:42PM (#21767587)

On the flip side, I think this would make pinpoint the device‘s geo-location much easier.

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Re:ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone su... by LilBytes on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @07:49PM (#21768372)

Yeah that seems true, if there's more signal towers in a particular space it'll make triangulation of a person and their device easier to achieve through an increase of reference points.

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Re:ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone su... by LilBytes on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @07:48PM (#21768370)

I don't see this as being a stop gap, the short comings (not an intended pun) of the range and potential penetration of 5G almost certainly means 4G is going to be around in the long term.

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Re:ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone su... by greyhair on Thursday December 12, 2019 @12:37PM (#21774103)

mmWave 5G is shorter range.

5G runs also on sub-6. The spec defines the modulation and the network, it doesn't hard-spec the frequency.

So the coverage on low band 5G will be the same as 4G

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