“The tools can slow their data connections to a crawl, break the encryption of phone calls, track the movements of individuals or large groups, and produce detailed metadata summaries of who spoke to whom, when, and where.”
SIAM sits inside Iran’s mobile carriers and lets the state pick out one phone and slow it down, force it onto 2G, or track it. “Force2GNumber” exists because 2G calls are easier to break. Blackouts make headlines. A system that quietly degrades only the protesters’ phones doesn’t.