Zak Doffman has covered security, surveillance and privacy on Forbes since 2018, focusing on the latest updates from the world’s largest tech companies, staying safe on smartphones and social media, and the dangers of AI.
, heralding updates that “include security features that help keep your sensitive health, financial and personal information protected from theft and fraud.” But it could be that this first release is more notable for what’s missing than what’s included, made worse by a serious Google update mistake that will see millions of users missing out.
Thankfully, Google did include its excellent new theft protection in this release, “using AI to help keep your data safe—if your phone senses someone has snatched it and is trying to run, bike or drive away, it will automatically lock your device.” But there’s no news on any early deployments of its critical live threat detection. This uses AI to monitor app behaviors on-device to flag risks as early as possible.
Such rogue networks use hardware to trick phones into thinking it’s a legitimate, public cellular base station. They only work locally by presenting a strong signal to a device as it searches for cell towers nearby. Once the phone switches over, the rogue network receives its traffic. Where that traffic is fully encrypted, it remains secure. But if the rogue network can lower the encryption threshold, that changes.
These new mobile network security features require tight integration between hardware modems and OS software, and while the beta release suggested this would be available at least on new Pixel 9 releases, that’s evidently not the case—at least not yet. When available, it will enable users to select alerts when a phone connects to an unencrypted network or when a network requests a device or SIM identity. It will also provide a setting to prevent any connections to unencrypted networks.
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