Closed Bug 1239706 Opened 8 years ago Closed 6 years ago

[RIL][Privacy] Introduce a pref to disable PDU_PID_SHORT_MESSAGE_TYPE_0 handling for more privacy

Categories

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: RIL, defect)

Product:
Firefox OS Graveyard
Component:
RIL
Platform:
ARM
Gonk (Firefox OS)
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: julienw, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: privacy) 

Source: https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/system/gonk/ril_worker.js#6556

We should have a pref to prevent acknowledging a short message type 0.

In [1] it's said:

   In his 2005 book, Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services, Le Bodic noted that these 
   messages are used “to page a mobile to check if the mobile is active without the user 
   being aware that the mobile station has been paged.” It seems that type 0 messages are 
   therefore quite popular with surveillance agencies.

[1] http://blog.richpollock.com/2014/06/class-0-sms-messages/
Firefox OS is not being worked on
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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