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  • And with SS7 they can get even more precise location, and you can’t really hide from that if you want to use a phone with a phone number, what is the point. This is an interesting way of attack, noone really thought about this before, but it’s not “oh-my-god everyone can be tracked via signal”. I guess the closest server doesn’t even selected via geographical distance, but much more depends on network infrastructure of your location, so Google Maps API can’t really help here.

    And again any VPN could defend against this, so if you want to hide which country you are in currently, it should be the 0th step to use a VPN.


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    2 months ago

    Was posted yesterday to a lot of communities, it’s very clickbait:

    allows an attacker to grab the location of any target within a 250 mile radius

    So it’s a bit rough… In Europe it means basically which country the target is in. Also cloudflare servers are not evenly distributed in the world, so resolution can differ wildly worldwide.

    With a vulnerable app installed on a target’s phone

    So it’s not really zero click.

    Sounds interesting though, nice writeup, but not as scary as it sounds from the title.