* “Google Pixel devices received software updates in 2021 that automatically enabled VoLTE and removed the toggle.”> affected Pixel devices have already received a fix for CVE-2023-24033 in the March 2023 security update
[0] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-inte...
That line is carefully deceptive (lawyerly, even). Pixel 6 series have not yet received the March 2023 update.
https://9to5google.com/2023/03/06/march-google-pixel-update-...
> The four most severe of these eighteen vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-24033 and three other vulnerabilities that have yet to be assigned CVE-IDs) allowed for Internet-to-baseband remote code execution.
I wonder if you can disable LTE entirely and use an older standard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G#Past_2G_networks
YMMV in other countries of course, but many networks worldwide have already phased it out or are going to soon.
Turns out it was still locked to Telstra, they demanded *$100* to unlock the damn thing, even though they were turning off their 3G network anyway!
Unfortunately all the resources on hacking them has long since succumbed to linkrot, plus getting it hooked up over USB to an XP VM to try and unlock it that way seemed risky
[0] https://www.nperf.com/en/map/DE/-/187895.Telekom/signal/?ll=...
It's really baffling going here from Sweden where I'm starting to get 5G signal outside of core city areas, get 4G almost across the whole country with speeds of 50-100+Mbps, into the city centre of Berlin and there I fallback to 3G networks every 3rd/4th block walking.
Friends living there having terrible experiences with Telekom, almost no fiber available, etc.
Germany should enact something like this policy from here: https://pts.se/sv/bransch/internet/bredbandsstrategin/
A combination of toxic financial mindset (back in the early '00s, finance minister Hans Eichel wanted a "balanced" budget and auctioned off the frequency licenses for dozens of billions of euros, saddling the carriers with the debt instead of the government), thoroughly incompetent politicians (Merkel's "Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland" is just the tip of the iceberg), NIMBYs (sadly, projects for tower construction routinely end up in death threats, and since 5G conspiracies also in actual terrorist attacks), and a populace that to a large degree just doesn't give enough of a fuck.
Japan has a nuclear accident, caused by a tsunami and partly due to known issues in the power plant. Merkel: "Oh no, let's close down all our nuclear power plants right away."
Merkel: "Oh, we need more energy now when we closed all our nuclear power plants. No problem, my buddy Putin has agreed to build a gas pipeline and provide us will all energy we need."
Putin has been rattling his weapons on the border or Ukraine since 2014. Merkel: "No problem, I called my buddy Putin and he said he will not attack. And by the way, no need for us to invest in our defense. We can continue to have Europe's weakest army per capita as Putin said he would not attack."
Migrant crisis in 2015. Merkel: "Everyone is welcome! Smugglers, just send them here, we will show our solidarity. Oh, we do not have enough schools, daycare, hospitals to take care of them all? Oh, many are lost teenagers and children without parents who took the chance now when we said everyone was welcome? Well, I guess they can earn their living selling drugs and sex."
> Japan has a nuclear accident, caused by a tsunami and partly due to known issues in the power plant. Merkel: "Oh no, let's close down all our nuclear power plants right away."
The entire country was calling for the dismantling of the NPPs, and no one sans the FDP and the Nazis cares much about them any more, not even their operators.. As for the gas pipeline, thank former Chancellor Schröder for that one.
> Putin has been rattling his weapons on the border or Ukraine since 2014. Merkel: "No problem, I called my buddy Putin and he said he will not attack. And by the way, no need for us to invest in our defense. We can continue to have Europe's weakest army per capita as Putin said he would not attack."
A valid point, but one shared across the political spectrum except the Greens - everyone else from left to right and the entire leadership of the German industry was blinded by the prospect of cheap energy. It is unfair IMO to single out Merkel there.
> Migrant crisis in 2015. Merkel: "Everyone is welcome! Smugglers, just send them here, we will show our solidarity. Oh, we do not have enough schools, daycare, hospitals to take care of them all? Oh, many are lost teenagers and children without parents who took the chance now when we said everyone was welcome? Well, I guess they can earn their living selling drugs and sex."
The first part is a blank reproduction of common Nazi conspiracy myths - the "pull factor" has been thoroughly disproven by now, even with the EU being a deadly fortress at its borders, still thousands of people attempt to cross the Mediterranean each year. The latter is one of the worst interpretations you can give - I'd put that one rather on bland disinterest and fear of the far-right, not an intention to push people off to selling drugs.
Nissan Leafs used AT&T and it was shut down at the end of 2016.
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1102612_nissan-leaf-con...
Some areas were never built out with 2G but for the footprint that was always there they have not turned it off since it doesn't impact their spectrum very much. AT&T had poor spectrum planning so had to kill it off sooner to refarm the spectrum.
I was on an EDGE connection in Mexico just last month.
Careful if you put your SIM in a 3G only phone it may get blacklisted and you’ll need a new one.
Source: work at a carrier.