What is a "Imsi Catcher Apple"? The Most Authoritative Explanation.
What is a "Imsi Catcher Apple"? The Most Authoritative Explanation.
What are IMSI catchers?
IMSI catchers can determine the IMSI numbers of nearby mobile phones, which is the trademark capability from which they get their name. Using the IMSI, they can then identify mobile traffic on the network and target it for interception and analysis. Stingrays have become commonly known as IMSI catchers.
Can Apple and Google help you against IMSI catchers?
An attacker can target thousands of devices. IMSI catchers can be mounted on people, cars or airplanes that can spy on entire cities at once. Apple and Google seem unwilling to help their users against IMSI catchers. However, if you have the right tools you can at least catch them spying on you.
What is an IMSI-catcher and how does it work?
This is because they spoof a cell phone tower’s connection, meaning that cell phones in the area will try to connect to it; in doing so, the IMSI-catcher is able to passively collect information about phones in the area.
What is IMSI & how does it work?
IMSI (IInternational Mobile Subscriber Identity): the unique identifier linked to your SIM card that is one of the pieces of data used to authenticate you to the mobile network. It’s meant to be kept private (because, as we’ll see later, it can be linked to your physical location and your phone calls/messages/data).
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