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Android phones could soon warn you of "Stingrays" snooping on your communicatio
But it requires specific hardware support that is missing on current phones.
Law enforcement organizations have massively expanded the use of Stingray devices because almost every person of interest today uses a cell phone at some point. To unmask fake cell towers, Android phones need to have version 3.0 of Google's IRadio hardware abstraction layer, which has to be supported at the modem level. Even Google's latest Pixel phones lack support, so the network security settings page is hidden in current builds of Android 16.
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