By focusing on the potential dangers of Chinese #spy tech, we’ve ignored how #roaming itself creates massive #vulnerabilities, a new Citizen Lab report says.

The very obscure, archaic technologies that make #cellphone roaming possible also makes it possible to #track phone owners across the world, according to a new investigation by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab. The roaming tech is riddled with #security oversights that make it a ripe target for those who might want to trace the #locations of phone users.

https://theintercept.com/2023/10/26/cellphone-roaming-location-tracking-surveillance/

Vulnerabilities in Cellphone Roaming Let Spies and Criminals Track You Across the Globe

By focusing on the potential dangers of Chinese spy tech, we’ve ignored how roaming itself creates massive vulnerabilities, a Citizen Lab report says.

^{Sam Biddle (The Intercept)}