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Even then, it doesn't make sense to do that. Three letter agencies can just go ask the phone company for a wiretap. Cloning the equipment ID is also useless on
by jfim 7y ago
Even then, it doesn't make sense to do that. Three letter agencies can just go ask the phone company for a wiretap.
Cloning the equipment ID is also useless on its own, you'd want to clone the subscriber identification, which is the part that says to the network that you're the device for this subscriber. It's how moving a SIM card to a new phone makes the new one ring and the old phone stay silent when calling the number associated with it.
- Lammy 7y agoEquipment ID and subscriber information used to be the same thing in the far past: http://web.textfiles.com/phreak/cell.txt http://web.textfiles.com/phreak/cell.txt People cloned phones to make free calls, not receive them — like a '90s/2000s version of blueboxing: https://www.pressherald.com/2010/04/19/woman-finds-cell-phone-bill-inf-lated-by-cloning-calls_2010-04-19/ https://www.pressherald.com/2010/04/19/woman-finds-cell-phon...
- zvr 7y agoThree letter agencies can just go ask the phone company for a wiretap in their country . They are also interested in performing similar tasks elsewhere in the world ;)