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GSM Temporary Selectors – Breakthroughs in Automated Identification

SUMMARY

It has always frustrated analysts when GSM cellular networks implement Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identities, which obscure a code, known as IMSI, that uniquely and persistently identifies the cellphone. The "ASSOCIATION" program has solved this problem by mapping TMSI to IMSI.

DOCUMENT’S DATE

Jul 27, 2005

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

Mar 01, 2018

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Iraq