IMSI-catcher

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An international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) catcher or cell-site simulator (CSS) is a telephone eavesdropping device used for intercepting mobile phone traffic and tracking location data of mobile phone users.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “IMSI-catcher”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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