Ooohhh! You know what, I learned something new today! Thank you so much for taking the time to explain it in a way that made sense to me.

What I’m saying is those medical device companies just need to upgrade hardware. Not the user.

That is a valid perspective, but it doesn’t take into account the burden on end users. Would you still feel that same way if you were the user, and the “update” required literal surgery on your body - not because the device failed, or expired, but simply because network standards have changed?

Because it’s the cellphone equivalent of creating a pirate radio station, to put it in terms better understood.

Why not use the analogy of a Wi-Fi repeater or extender that can handle multiple Wi-Fi standards simultaneously?

For that matter, it should be rather simple to limit it to only “listen” for connections from known medical devices (though it’s not like there are a bunch of 2G phones running around these days).

I’m listening, but so far, I haven’t seen anything that explains why this would actually be a bad idea, or how it could cause any harm.

…you don’t see the advantage in avoiding open heart surgery to replace an embedded medical device?

While I agree with you in principle, that’s a hard sell to somebody with an embedded 2G medical device.

You don’t want random companies making cell signal transceivers.

Setting “companies” aside, I don’t see why it couldn’t be some sort of DIY project. Like, a small computer with a both a 2G and 5G modem, a set of antennas for each, and some middleware…

In fact, there are some phones that support both networks… So why couldn’t a spare phone be used? They technically already have all the hardware to make it work.

It sounds like there’s a really big market opportunity for somebody to make a portable transceiver that converts 2G and 3G signals into 5G…

Additional info for the lazy: the name of the company is “Gravy Analytics”, hence the name “Gravy Scanner” for this app. It’s a large data broker, and they don’t bother with pesky little details like “informed consent”.

Anyway, they got hacked a month ago, and the hackers threatened to publicly release all the data.

https://slrpnk.net/post/17048112

Most likely, that means you’re clean. On mine, the output is just a white screen with a list of the affected apps… Clicking on one of them takes me to that app’s settings.

It does that one thing, with no explanations or instructions, so it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that it doesn’t show a message to indicate that nothing was found.