News Finding: As Basin's team determined, data protection will be improved significantly with the new protocol in comparison with 3G and 4G technologies.
Paper Finding: 5.2.5,6.12].
News Context: "It is therefore possible for a poor implementation of the current standard to result in users being charged for the mobile phone usage of a third party." As Basin's team determined, data protection will be improved significantly with the new protocol in comparison with 3G and 4G technologies. In addition, 3GPP succeeded in closing a gap with the new standard that had previously been exploited by IMSI catchers.
Paper Context: In 5G, the SUPI is considered sensitive and must remain secret since it uniquely identifies users [TS 33.501, Sec. 5.2.5,6.12]. Indeed, an attacker who obtains this value can identify a subscriber, leading to classical user location attacks (see [TS 133 .102, Sec.