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ng55QPSK

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    Comment #39520703

    which means: you tell the compiler

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    Comment #38978574

    i can understand everything, but why is Apple as global company fixes jobs like this to a single site?

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    Comment #38317918

    Is the same infrastructure available in Windows and MacOS?

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    Comment #33402580

    Do we know, where it is submitted?

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    Comment #33285739

    At home we use a phrase from an interview with a EU politician that was done BEFORE the ukraine war and asked about the US/CIA warnings of an upcomming war and he said "Always reme…

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    Comment #32617761

    i still don't understand. Should i put a bet (like €50), i can find an operator that closes such databases, or that you find an operator that doesn't? I'm part of the mobile commun…

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    Comment #32596566

    It shocked some managers in telco, something we consider a good thing ...

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    Comment #32596551

    Well, you're invited to join research on network ... because it's impossible to hide your ID from your access network. Tor and similar can hide your ID in transport, but that's no …

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    Comment #32591627

    So you have ID41323 and ID53242 over night (or at daytime) in the same location, how do you map this back to names? It's not impossible, but you need data that exists (like house-t…

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    Comment #32591611

    You just explained the TMSI - something that was used since GSM networks in the early 90s

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    Comment #32590472

    Serious answer: I have seen operators taking this serious. It's also a european trend not to blindly accept law enforcement requests to open data anymore. For US companies: read so…

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    Comment #32589588

    i'd recommend to watch the presentation https://media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-273-openran-5g-hacking-just-g... in which it's made clearer, that the telco part wasn't the issue. 5G systems…

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    Comment #32589506

    Both informations are abstract identifiers and are decoded in a database to 'real' values only, PHY doesn't care about your decrypted ID. If the operator keeps that database closed…

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    Comment #32589481

    Actually in 5G network there is almost nothing that isn't encrypted. What Karsten decribes is that cloud installations very often trust the infrastructure, but that's no special 5G…

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    Comment #32286317

    "weather models" "better" - how do you actually rate weather models? Exact prediction or prediction of outliers like catastrophic events? Is there more value in knowing tomorrow's …

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    Comment #32286302

    Just wrong. The more correct input you have and the more correct your model of the real world is, the more accurate your predictions are. We already see helpless activities to be b…

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    Comment #32240413

    The point here is: if the owner of the IMSI catcher has some preknowledge about the target phone. There is no way to avoid this.

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    Comment #32240401

    Tracking down 'strange' configuration will work in 5G the same way. It still could be, and the pdf covers this, 'strange' configurations can happen in early deployments in 5G also.…

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    Comment #32240368

    as explained in the pdf: There is a part of the connection setup, that will happen before any mutual authentification: The telephone offers the IMEI/IMSI to get an initial connecti…

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    Comment #31749759

    "You can't see all of the issues and all of the problems and how your design really doesn't work until you actually try to build it." - assuming you build something, nobody has tri…

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    Comment #31650278

    See it like this: They work 6-7 day because they are successful. At the same time they didn't manage to scale.

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    Comment #31623128

    Notaries are supervised by (depending on state) some local court and there is a feedback system if you are not satisfied with the process.

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    Comment #31622431

    You cannot secure any system against intentionally criminal behaviour - and it looks like the actual transfer had started an investigation.

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    Comment #31622378

    I see. But this sounds like his/her office made a mistake in calculating the fee, but let's say this far away from "ripping off" and can be cleared in one telephone call.