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Re:Department of Defense and Department of Commerce to Devel... by austincheney on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:37AM (#25743948)
I am an Army signal officer with 5 deployments. The military considers cell phones inherently insecure and not a mission asset, regardless of what you may read.
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Re:Department of Defense and Department of Commerce to Devel... by Jtsummers on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:23AM (#25748015)
The DoD, or at least the USAF, has decided that 5G is going to be a critical part of their infrastructure.

https://potomacofficersclub.com/will-roper-announces-larger-...

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Re:Department of Defense and Department of Commerce to Devel... by hatmatrix on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:14AM (#25745313)
Don't a lot of other devices use the 4G network for data tranfer (with encryption)?
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Re:Department of Defense and Department of Commerce to Devel... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @09:57AM (#25747691)
Is that because military-purpose communications is insecure over 4G, or because modern smartphones, full of adtech malware, make it all to easy to leak your location by accident?
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Re:Department of Defense and Department of Commerce to Devel... by Jtsummers on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:25AM (#25748037)
It's a variety of factors. Information leaking is one, but a big one is the lack of control. DoD does not control any significant part of the present cellular network, so it might be useful but it oughtn't be part of your critical systems.
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