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The Next Generation of Cell-Site Simulators is Here. Here’s What We Know. (www.eff.org)

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[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 weeks ago

The lower layers all already at least moderately well encrypted, what they're doing here is trying to pull the unencrypted device ID necessary to establish a connection. It's not really what you're sending (though traffic frequency analysis may be included) and more about just figuring out where a particular phone is so they can physically track the user.