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Recreating ICE Spy Tech Was WAY Too Easy

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Sources and further reading:

News:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/ice-bought-vehicles-equipped-with-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-phones/
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/31/protests-surveillance-stingrays-dirtboxes-phone-tracking/
https://san.com/cc/exclusive-evidence-of-cell-phone-surveillance-detected-at-anti-ice-protest/

Papers of Interest:
https://www.cise.ufl.edu/~butler/pubs/ndss25-tucker-marlin.pdf
https://montsecure.com/files/5g_suci_catcher.pdf
https://syssec.kaist.ac.kr/pub/2023/wisec2023_tuan.pdf

Tool Set Used:
DragonOS - https://cemaxecuter.com/
LTESniffer - https://github.com/SysSec-KAIST/LTESniffer
Simple IMSI-catcher - https://github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher
srsRAN - https://github.com/srsran
Rayhunter - https://github.com/EFForg/rayhunter
GrapheneOS - https://grapheneos.org/

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