The false base stations that can be used to monitor cell phone traffic, the so-called IMSI catch holders, is probably in use in many capitals and major cities around the world shows a number of press reports.
– Call it IMSI catcher War, wrote magazine Newsweek in June this year. – There is a spy war that Q, James Bond’s technology expert, would envy.
E-services from many countries are included in the “war”
With the war’s intelligence services to USA, UK France, Russia, China and Iran.
– This type of technology has been used by foreign intelligence services here and abroad to monitor Americans, both government agencies and private companies, the former FBI second boss Tim Murphy Newsweek.
Information obtained from the phones can be used to blackmail
The highly mobile surveillance devices that can fit in a briefcase, can also be used by non-governmental bodies and criminals. In the Czech capital Prague, the use of IMSI catchere been rising, reported Radio Prague two years ago.
– Private firms can use those devices to spy on each other, the former intelligence chief Andor Sandor radio station.
It may also be criminals who try to obtain information that they can use in conjunction with extortion.
Monitoring revealed in Washington and London
In September year wrote Washington Post that a mobile security company had identified all 18 probable IMSI catchere in Washington. They did using a version of the same phone as Aftenposten have used in their work, a GSMK Cryptophone.
The Times of London wrote in November this year that tens of thousands phones may have been monitored by police in London which they also write spent IMSI catchere.
2500 IMSI catchere found during raid in China
In February this year, 1,530 people were arrested and 2,500 IMSI catchere found when Chinese authorities conducted a major raid. 24 companies were closed.
Swedes familiar with fake base stations in 2010
The Swedish government wrote in 2010 that “a technical aid that has become increasingly important to identify mobile electronic communication equipment is called IMSI-catchers. ” With such equipment, the police can identify which mobile phones are located at a specific place – and its use is “relatively extensive” wrote government.
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