Mass snooping fake mobile towers 'uncovered in UK'

Re:Mass snooping fake mobile towers 'uncovered in UK' by AnoniMoose on Thursday June 11, 2015 @01:54PM (#9701225)

Factual Answer: Logging of IMSI (sim card ID) and IMEI (phone ID). Potentially also logging pTMSI (temporary IMSI used over the air), MSISDN (phone number).

You should be able to get good idea of the handsets distance from the station based on timing delay.

As it's acting as a full fake site it could potentially be used to deny service, drain the battery, MiTM outgoing SMS & phone calls, possibly use the E911 provision to request GPS location from the handset too...

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Re:Mass snooping fake mobile towers 'uncovered in UK' by keithpeter on Saturday June 13, 2015 @01:14PM (#9711698)

Thanks - factual is fine

So My Friends in the Met could have a few of these things at sensitive points, and sit there and collect data along the lines of name (via phone number), time, date, location, device ID. Running this for some weeks would allow them to build up a list of people traversing a certain route daily.

Phone/sms could they decrypt the phone calls with the device ID? Seems a lot of data to collect given the number of people passing through many locations in central London.

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