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UK Police using IMSI grabbers - they take data off your mobile phone

The vulnerability in the phone operators network mean that the police or anyone who can exploit things can gain access to your mobile phone.
They mimic the operator's network and you unwittingly latch on to that where they are used.
It is basically a mass surveillance of mobile phones and possibly other things like tablets and laptops etc.
The police have purchased some CCDC's and is on the public record for doing so.
CCDC stands for 'Covert Communications Data Capture'.
If you are in the same place where these devices are used, they can grab all the data off your phone.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/1 ... _revealed/

If the police are doing this, surely is all illegal?

Wax wrote:If the police are doing this, surely is all illegal?

Would the police be bothered about this

Freeman John wrote:

Wax wrote:If the police are doing this, surely is all illegal?

Would the police be bothered about this

If it was illegal you can certainly sue them if you could prove it.

Freeman John wrote:

Wax wrote:If the police are doing this, surely is all illegal?

Would the police be bothered about this

They are doing illegal stuff all the time

Is it just the police or the secret services doing this?
When we say the police we generally think of the bobby on the beat.

Hate anything sly like this.

Crab wrote:Hate anything sly like this.

There are worse things they do!

Zombie wrote:

Crab wrote:Hate anything sly like this.

There are worse things they do!

^ This.

Crab wrote:Hate anything sly like this.

Me too!