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   On Tuesday, January 28, 2020 7:16 AM, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com>
   wrote:

WIRED: One Small Fix Would Curb Stingray Surveillance.
[1]https://www.wired.com/story/stingray-surveillance-cell-tower-pre-authenticati
on

   '''

   The telecom and tech industries could overcome these challenges if they
   decided to prioritize a fix. That's a big if. Nasser points to a
   solution that would [2]function a lot like HTTPS web encryption,
   allowing phones to quickly check cell tower "certificates" to prove
   their legitimacy before establishing a secure connection. Last year,
   Hussain and colleagues from Purdue and the University of Iowa
   [3]developed and proposed such an authentication scheme for the
   bootstrapping process in 5G.

   "As long as phones will connect to anything advertising itself as a
   tower, itтs kind of free-for-all," Nasser says. "This problem is big
   low-hanging fruit, and there are many ways things could get better I
   think."

   '''

   never gonna happen :(

     would be nice, though...

   this is a warning for lawful access to encryption; once you've
   compromised a system "for official purpose" it's compromised forever.

   best regards,

References

   1. https://www.wired.com/story/stingray-surveillance-cell-tower-pre-authentication
   2. https://www.wired.com/2016/04/hacker-lexicon-what-is-https-encryption/
   3. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3317549.3323402