IMSI

Reuters, US coppers spend a fortune on expensive snooping kit called IMSI catcher.

The Inquirer 2010

According to San Francisco-based Lookout, a large number of free wallpaper apps in the Android Market scrape the phone number; the user-specific subscriber identifier, also know as the IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity); the phone's SIM card's serial number; and the currently-entered voicemail number from the phone.

Computerworld News 2010

The low-cost, home-brewed device, developed by researcher Chris Paget, mimics more expensive devices already used by intelligence and law enforcement agencies - called IMSI catchers - that can capture phone ID data and content.

Gizmodo Kim Zetter - Wired 2010

According to San Francisco-based Lookout, a large number of free wallpaper apps in the Android Market scrape the phone number; the user-specific subscriber identifier, also know as the IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity); the phone's SIM card's serial number; and the currently-entered voicemail number from the phone.

Computerworld News 2010

The low-cost, home-brewed device, developed by researcher Chris Paget, mimics more expensive devices already used by intelligence and law enforcement agencies - called IMSI catchers - that can capture phone ID data and content.

Public marks bouilloire 2010

The researchers at Lookout found that several Android wallpaper applications were capable of harvesting the number, subscriber identifier, such as IMSI, and the currently entered voicemail number on the phone.

PROnetworks 2010

"The IMSI is a unique number allocated to each mobile subscriber in the GSM system that identifies the subscriber and subscription within the GSM network.

RCR Wireless News 2009

"The IMSI is a unique number allocated to each mobile subscriber in the GSM system that identifies the subscriber and subscription within the GSM network.

RCR Wireless News >> FCC 2009

The apps, which included Super Guitar Solo, Advanced Barcode Scanner, Bubble Shoot and dozens of others, were adulterated with a malicious code called "DroidDream" that could compromise sensitive personal data, including the IMSI number of the user's phone, a unique identifier that carriers try to protect.

Google Takes Heat Over App Security Spencer E. Ante 2011

Hacker intercepts phone calls with homebuilt $1,500 IMSI catcher, claims GSM is beyond repair (engadget) ... the white hat hacker fooled 17 nearby GSM phones into believing his $1,500 kit (including a laptop and two RF antennas) was a legitimate cell phone base station, and proceeded to intercept and record audience calls.

Daily Dispatch: IE8 privacy features cut to sell ads; Hacker intercepts cell calls with $1,500 device 2010