{"id":134416,"date":"2022-01-20T15:22:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T23:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/android-users-can-now-disable-2g-to-block-stingray-attacks"},"modified":"2022-01-20T15:22:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T23:22:33","slug":"android-users-can-now-disable-2g-to-block-stingray-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/android-users-can-now-disable-2g-to-block-stingray-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Android users can now disable 2G to block Stingray attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/android-users-can-now-disable-2g-to-block-stingray-attacks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google has finally rolled out an option on Android allowing users to disable 2G connections, which come with a host of privacy and security problems exploited by cell-site simulators.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of the option was spotted by EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), which calls the development <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2022\/01\/victory-google-releases-disable-2g-feature-new-android-smartphones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a victory<\/a> for privacy protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has finally rolled out an option on Android allowing users to disable 2G connections, which come with a host of privacy and security problems exploited by cell-site simulators. The addition of the option was spotted by EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), which calls the development a victory for privacy protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}