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Phone Hackers: Britain’s Secret Surveillance

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IMSI catchers (international mobile subscriber identity-catcher) are portable surveillance tools used for spying on thousands of phones in a targeted area, tracking their location and even intercepting calls, messages, and data. They are supposed to help identify serious criminals, but cannot operate without monitoring innocent people too. UK police have IMSI catchers, but they refuse to tell the public how and when they are used. This has privacy campaigners worried…


Further References

van den Broek, F., Verdult, R., & de Ruiter, J.. (2015). Defeating IMSI Catchers. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security – CCS ’15 (pp. 340–351). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1145/2810103.2813615
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Dabrowski, A., Pianta, N., Klepp, T., Mulazzani, M., & Weippl, E.. (2014). IMSI-catch me if you can. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference on – ACSAC ’14 (pp. 246–255). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1145/2664243.2664272
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