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> criminals, cannot get warrants and cannot typically work directly with the phone companies. Colour me skeptical on the latter. What kind of criminal is tech
by swores 4y ago
> criminals, cannot get warrants and cannot typically work directly with the phone companies.
Colour me skeptical on the latter. What kind of criminal is tech savvy enough to want location data, but can't think of either using a fake business to buy the data (if it's legally allowed to be sold by the phone company), or bribing a phone company employee, or becoming / having one of your criminal team become an employee there, or commit another crime such as hacking into the phone company to steal data, or...?
- walterbell 4y agoIMSI catchers enable realtime scale/volume harvesting. Blackhat 2020, Detecting Fake 4G Base Stations in Real Time, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32237621 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32237621