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2014: "We can’t choose a world where the US gets to spy and the Chinese don’t. We get to choose a world where everyone can spy, or a world where no one can spy."
And here we are 11 years later with people in governments *still* insisting on trying it. Even after Salt Typhoon.
(Also, the “towers” referred to in the title are apparently not physical towers so much as interception devices that mimic a cell tower on the network. It’s imprecise language that has propagated through just about every article on the topic.)
Fake Cell Phone Towers Across the US - Schneier on Security
Earlier this month, there were a bunch of stories about fake cell phone towers discovered around the US. These seem to be IMSI catchers, like Harris Corporation’s Stingray, and are used to capture location information and potentially phone calls, text messages, and smart-phone Internet traffic. A couple of days ago, the Washington Post ran a story about fake cell phone towers in politically interesting places around Washington DC. In both cases, researchers used security software that’s part of CryptoPhone from the German company GSMK. And in both cases, we don’t know who is running these fake cell phone towers. Is it the US government? A foreign government? Multiple foreign governments? Criminals?...
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