Android phones could soon warn you of “Stingrays” snooping on your

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Cell site simulators, often called Stingrays, can trick your phone into revealing private communications, but a change in Android 16 could allow phones to detect this spying.

it’s unlikely any current phone will be updated with modem drivers that are capable of Stingray detection.

Phones that launch on Android 16 later this year, like the Pixel 10, will be the first to call out fake cell towers.

This is an exciting development, but note that if you just use apps like Signal or SimpleX instead of carrier messaging and calling, you avoid this problem.

Here’s what GrapheneOS said about stingrays around a year ago:

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That’s not true. IMSI catcher is mostly about tracking cell phone. So using Signal or Simplex will not protect you against that form of tracking.

Stingray was made By Harris corporation and is outdated. Now Nyxcell are more common.

The only way I know to dodge IMSI catcher like Nyxcell, is to remove Sim Card, or a use a faraday cage (like a metalic box.)

Look at thoses public records from police offer of procurement:

There are many others Nyxcell that we don’t know about.

PS: another good read:

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