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Develop FlashCatch heuristic

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enhancement heuristic
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Description

### What problem does this feature solve or what does it enhance?

i found this new paper claiming to describe a novel IMSI catcher technique which they call FlashCatch: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3734477.3734705

the paper claims that rayhunter (and a number of other detectors) are ineffective against techniques like theirs, but based on their description, i don't think that's the case. in particular, i wonder if @cooperq's updated IMSI Requested heuristic works on this.

the paper also references a number of others which describe various IMSI catcher techniques, which we may want to investigate

### Proposed Solution

investigate if our new v2 IMSI Requested heuristic is effective against this, and if not, develop one which is

### Alternatives Considered

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