Project INVICTUS: Inside the UK's Human Rights Busting Campaign to Spy on Refugees – Mint Press

The “full potential” could, Prevail declared, only be harnessed via a “GDPR exemption of some kind, as it is indiscriminate, passive collection against the general population.” By collecting targets’ Media Access Control (MAC) addresses, the company would be able to follow a “breadcrumb trail” of residual data they left while traveling through North West Europe.

This was achievable by conducting a “war drive” along those routes – identifying every vulnerable wireless network in these areas using a moving vehicle. Prevail noted such activity “would breach current permissions.” Indeed, the entire conspiracy constitutes an extraordinary infringement of British and European data protection standards and laws


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Passive IMSI Catching On A Real GSM Network Using A RTL-SDR And Gr-GSM

Recently, I had the opportunity to play around with a real 2G cellular network. So, here is a quick video of how passive IMSI catchers are constructed using a couple of Linux software tools and an RTL-SDR dongle.

It is a common misconception that mobile phones are tracked via their telephone numbers or the IMEI number of the handset. IMSI is an abbreviation that stands for 'international mobile subscriber identity' and is the unique identifier of a mobile phone subscribers SIM card on a cellular network. IMSI numbers are used in most mobile phone communication generations from 2G, all the way up until the more modern 5G.

The IMSI number of a SIM card is very well protected in 3G, 4G and 5G. However, in the case of the 2G mobile communication standard GSM, these unique identifying values are not so well protected from the prying eyes of governments, militaries, law enforcement and spy agencies.

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