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There’s much less to choose between Android and iPhones these days, but most users assume Google does more following than leading—well, not this time...Google has just revealed Android 15 Beta 1, and one update stands out from a security and privacy perspective—especially because it’s something not even recent iPhones can match. There’s a hardware component here—so while we can expect this to come to Google’s Pixel, Samsung and other device owners will have to just wait and see.
This is where the second part of this update kicks in—restricting cellular connections to encrypted only. Where cellular intercept platforms knock phones from public networks to high-powered but localized alternatives, the encryption is removed or materially reduced to enable potential interception of calls, data and texts.
Apple provides 2G blocking on iPhones—which defends against legacy “Stingray” intercept devices, which knock phones down to a pretty much unencrypted 2G comms channel—but this is only done in its ultra-secure Lockdown Mode.described this as “a huge step towards protecting iOS users from fake base station attacks, which have been used as a vector to install spyware such as Pegasus.
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