On: British duo arrested for SMS phishing via homemade cell tower

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Burning resources? By turning on their spectrum analyzer and letting it log what it hears?

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"Burning" in the opsec sense. Disclosing the existence and extent of their data collection by letting too many non-cleared peeps in on the secret.

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Oh thanks for the clarification.

I don’t think spectrum monitoring capability is all that secret. Certainly anyone with the knowledge to set up their own BTS should recognize the possibility they could be triangulated.