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Exploiting Decades-Old Telephone Tech to Break Into Android Devices

Published: Aug. 29, 2018, 4:31 p.m.

It might feel like there's always a new smartphone on the market with next-generation features that make yours obsolete. But no matter how many iterations mobile devices go through, they're in many ways still based on decades-old electronics. In fact, antiquated 20th century telephone tech can be used to carry out decidedly 21st century attacks on many mainstream smartphones.