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Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS by vijaybritto on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:28AM (#50287342)
If the carrier is compromised an attacker could destroy millions of phones and cause humongous economic losses no?
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Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS by Geezus_42 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:15AM (#50287744)
Why would they do that when they could use that access to harvest tons of valuable data?
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Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS by pnt12 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:54AM (#50288162)
In a war scenario, Russia would could destroy Ukranian phones for example.

For the lulz.

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Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS by Geezus_42 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:09AM (#50288398)
Wouldn't it be easier to just takedown the carrier they've already exploited?
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Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS by kirth_gersen on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:12AM (#50289389)
why not do both?
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Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS by int0x29 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:07PM (#50292418)
Because keeping the phones down longer than 5 minutes requires the carriers to still be up and retransmitting un-acked SMS messages
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Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS by vijaybritto on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:19PM (#50293588)
Bless your heart but the world is full of evil people, my friend.
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Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS by Geezus_42 on Friday October 30, 2026 @08:57AM (#50303227)
No duh. I'm not stupid or naive. However, people don't do things without motives.
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