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He installed a fake antenna? like a fake cellular radio tower? how is it possible that phones just randomly trust this antenna? they explain very little in the article.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher
lovely, and my phone won't let me block 2G.
Short answer: security through obscurity