Website leaked real-time location of most US cell phones to almost anyone
In Summary : The tool was billed as a demonstration prospective customers could use to see the approximate location of their own mobile de...
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In Summary :
The tool was billed as a demonstration prospective customers could use to see the approximate location of their own mobile device. It required interested people to enter their name, email address, and phone number into a Web form. LocationSmart would then text the phone number and request permission to query the cellular network tower closest to the device. It didn’t take long for Robert Xiao, a security researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, to find a way to work around the authorization requirement. [...]
kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1310869
The tool was billed as a demonstration prospective customers could use to see the approximate location of their own mobile device. It required interested people to enter their name, email address, and phone number into a Web form. LocationSmart would then text the phone number and request permission to query the cellular network tower closest to the device. It didn’t take long for Robert Xiao, a security researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, to find a way to work around the authorization requirement. [...]
kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1310869
