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Re:Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Do... by gruez on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:30PM (#50061690)
>GrapheneOS has "2G Network Protection" which prevents your phone from connecting to 2G networks and it also can notify you if your cellular identifiers were accessed.

You should realistically be changing to it to "5G or LTE only", even better "5G only". The latter should provide complete protection from IMSI/IMEI sniffing by rogue base stations.

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Re:Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Do... by joecool1029 on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:09PM (#50065716)
>The latter should provide complete protection from IMSI/IMEI sniffing by rogue base stations.

Only on SA and even there it is optional: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/CSWP/NIST.CSWP.36A.pdf

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Re:Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Do... by nosrepa on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:01PM (#50076869)
That is an android feature not specific to grapheneos
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