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Re:Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your... by WarOnPrivacy on Monday August 03, 2020 @02:00PM (#24041104)
> these stingray devices can MitM your phone by forcing it to send essentially unencrypted messages.

Earlier Harris equip did that by forcing 2g mode but 2g is being turned off: https://1ot.mobi/resources/blog/a-complete-overview-of-2g-3g...

I'm less familiar with the capabilities of current IMEI catchers tho.

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Re:Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your... by bigiain on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:55PM (#24045354)
> Earlier Harris equip did that by forcing 2g mode but 2g is being turned off

Even if the carriers switch off all their 2G towers (which happened here in .au years back), I wonder how many handsets will still happily connect to a Stingray-type device that offers it a 2G connection?

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