Re:O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
by Aeyxen on Sunday May 18, 2025 @06:11AM
(#44020271)
The wild part: this isn’t a theoretical bug. It’s implementation laziness that other UK networks already solved, as the post notes. ECI leaks have been called out since LTE rolled out—see papers like https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05007—and automated location mapping is trivial given open mast DBs.
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Re:O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
by MortyWaves on Sunday May 18, 2025 @09:34AM
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Probably panicking and waiting to be told what to do by the security services that have been using this.
Re:O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
by kylpytakki on Monday May 19, 2025 @02:49AM
(#44027076)
All of the information leaked in the headers is already readily available through lawful interception.