[HN Gopher] LTrack: Stealthy Tracking of Mobile Phones in LTE
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LTrack: Stealthy Tracking of Mobile Phones in LTE
Author : red0point
Score : 9 points
Date : 2022-03-21 22:28 UTC (32 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (www.usenix.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.usenix.org)
| rkagerer wrote:
| Out of curiosity are there any providers or products out there
| offering deterministic, pseudo-randomly generated IMSI's that
| rollover every e.g. few hours? So the provider would know who you
| are but anybody else trying to track you in the fashion done in
| this attack would be hindered.
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| Think of it like VPN for your cell signal.
|
| Could it be a viable product? (...combined with other features to
| resist alternative tracking techniques lingering from the
| privacy-reckless design of the protocols underpinning our mobile
| infrastructure)
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