The new security feature makes it more difficult for police and malicious hackers to obtain a person's precise location data from a cell phone company.
I imagine the OS is intentionally varying TX strength on the cell radio to spoof precise location detection from the tower network, since that would be the only way to meet the stated goal.
This would only work if there’s one cell tower within range of the phone, which is unlikely. It also wouldn’t help much because you already can’t triangulate with just one tower.
I imagine the OS is intentionally varying TX strength on the cell radio to spoof precise location detection from the tower network, since that would be the only way to meet the stated goal.
This would only work if there’s one cell tower within range of the phone, which is unlikely. It also wouldn’t help much because you already can’t triangulate with just one tower.