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Cripes, what a breathlessly clueless article. This has fuck all to do with "Android security": the towers are MITMing GSM, and the tech to do this has been aro
by jpatokal 12y ago
Cripes, what a breathlessly clueless article. This has fuck all to do with "Android security": the towers are MITMing GSM, and the tech to do this has been around in some form since 2003.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
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- schoen 12y agoSlate reported last year that IMSI catchers or similar technologies were "in the hands of the feds since about 1995 [...] widely deployed since the mid '90s". http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/02/15/stingray_imsi_catcher_fbi_files_unlock_history_behind_cellphone_tracking.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/02/15/stingray_... Wikipedia does suggest it was "first commercialized" from 2003, but that doesn't mean that the technology wasn't around even earlier. (Ross Anderson has referred to interference from governments in the security design of GSM, and the possibility of fake towers could well have been one of several things those responsible for the interference had in mind.)