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An almost throwaway sentence in the paper stood out to me: >Because transactions take place at well-defined geographic locations and at well-defined moments in
by ThrustVectoring 11y ago
An almost throwaway sentence in the paper stood out to me:
>Because transactions take place at well-defined geographic locations and at well-defined moments in time, intersecting the IMSIs of SIM cards present near the crime scenes immediately revealed the perpetrators’ SIM card details.
- jessaustin 11y agoEventually criminals will learn, as some terrorists have, that mobile phones and crime don't mix well.
- 67726e 11y agoWell, except for IEDs.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoEven then, one has to pick a carrier carefully; I've heard that at least one person blew themselves up with a promotional text message from carrier.
- iwwr 11y agoSource?
- TeMPOraL 11y agoMark I Eardrum. I heard it from someone. That someone was probably retelling this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351673/Spam-text-message-saying-Happy-New-Year-triggered-Black-Widow-suicide-bombers-explosive-belt-early.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351673/Spam-text-me....
- wmf 11y agoThe same technique has caught bank robbers in the US: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/how-cell-tower-dumps-caught-the-high-country-bandits-and-why-it-matters/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/how-cell-tower-du...
- mirimir 11y agoIf they were smart enough to do all that micro hardware hacking, why did they use persistent SIM cards?