Re:TinyCheck: Easily capture network communications coming f...
by speakspokespok on Friday December 04, 2020 @06:32AM
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My assumption has always been that a clean phone in airplane mode but with WiFi enabled would not use the cellular radios at all. In that mode would a cell tower still be in communication with the phone at some level?
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Re:TinyCheck: Easily capture network communications coming f...
by red0point on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:14PM
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Not directly, as the flight mode really prevents any radio communication (it takes a bit to shut down as it sends a NAS Detach Request first and waits for a reply for a few seconds).
However, there is also WiFi Calling - in that sense, your phone establishes some connection with the cell network. However, I don‘t think any user data may travel on this bearer, but there might be some edge case where this is possible.