Collaborate Disseminate
Interesting research in using traffic analysis to learn things about encrypted traffic. It’s hard to know how critical these vulnerabilities are. They’re very hard to close without wasting a huge amount of bandwidth. The active attacks are more interesting. EDITED TO ADD (7/3): More information. I have been thinking about this, and now believe the attacks are more serious than… Continue reading Traffic Analysis of the LTE Mobile Standard
The lower house of parliament in France has passed what it called a “detox” law for a younger generation increasingly addicted to screens. As a result, French school students will be banned from using mobile phones anywhere on school grounds starting i… Continue reading French School Students To Be Banned From Using Mobile Phones
2017 was the first year that smartphone unit shipments didn’t grow, according to a new Internet Trends report. “Shipments actually declined by 0.5 percent, as IDC noted in February,” reports The Verge. “In 2016, shipments were lukewarm at 2 percent yea… Continue reading Smartphone Shipments Declined For the First Time In 2017
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report via The Atlantic, written by Alexis C. Madrigal: No one picks up the phone anymore. Even many businesses do everything they can to avoid picking up the phone. Of the 50 or so calls I received in the l… Continue reading Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore
MojoKid writes: Last week, Arm showed off its new Machine Learning Processor design, but today it has lifted the veil on its next-generation Cortex and Mali CPU, GPU, and VPU architectures, destined for 2019 smartphones and mobile devices. The Arm Cort… Continue reading Arm Unveils Next-Gen 76-Series Mobile CPU, GPU Cores
New submitter Daneel Olivaw R. shares a report from Tom’s Guide: To measure each phone’s toughness, [Tom’s Guide] dropped it from both 4 and 6 feet onto wood and concrete. After each test, we recorded the damage to the phone. If a phone was rendered un… Continue reading The Toughest (And Weakest) Phones Currently On the Market
Long-time Slashdot reader Zorro quotes Nextgov:
The Defense Department is funding a project that officials say could revolutionize the way companies, federal agencies and the military itself verify that people are who they say they are and it could be… Continue reading Pentagon-Funded Project Will ‘Solve’ Cellphone Identity Verification Within Two Years
The New York Times is reporting about a company called Securus Technologies that gives police the ability to track cell phone locations without a warrant: The service can find the whereabouts of almost any cellphone in the country within seconds. It does this by going through a system typically used by marketers and other companies to get location data from… Continue reading Accessing Cell Phone Location Information
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: Notches, it seems, are the new black. Originally seen — and often criticized — on the Essential PH-1 and iPhone X in 2017, the trend of adding notches to Android phones has only accelerated this year as … Continue reading Lenovo Teases a True All-Screen Smartphone With No Notch
On Thursday, a federal appeals court ruled that U.S. border agents need some sort of reason to believe a traveler has committed a crime before searching their cellphone. Slashdot reader Wrath0fb0b shares an analysis via Reason, written by Fourth Amendm… Continue reading US Appeals Court Rules Border Agents Need Suspicion To Search Cellphones