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Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS) around the world.
Cops use devices to pretend to be a celltower, so your phone connects to it, and then they use it to spy on you. Rayhunter looks for this behaviour and warns you if it detects a suspicious tower that behaves like cops pretending to be a tower.
What do you do if it comes up positive? Presumably if you know it's a risk, you'd leave your phone in airplane mode or at home, and if you know it's happening you've already been recorded?
I don't understand why cell phones don't authenticate the towers they connect to. Is this really just a "standards lag behind modern security" thing, or is it on purpose to allow these Stingray devices to be used?
I assume it's the same as the Internet (or more specifically HTTP): It wasn't designed with security in mind.
Unlike HTTP, for some reason it wasn't included in a new specification, though. My guess is that's because of the more centralized nature of cellular networks. The barrier for entry is a lot higher as well so there are few but big players who have little incentive to improve over the bare minimum.
IIRC encryption was initially proposed to be part of 5G but got shot down in the process.
Wait, 5G isn't encrypted? I think it does have some protections still. I mean, not that it would matter to me, they only use NR-NSA in my country so it isn't even full 5G with all its advantages.
At the risk of sounding like an AI-generated ad, I use an app called Privacy Cell on Fdroid, that confirmed there is no true 5G anywhere in my country. I just wish there was a way to differentiate between the two versions of 5G natively, kinda like 4G-LTE showing up as LTE instead of just 4G.
Encrypted data channels can still be vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. Like when you connect to an unknown host with SSH, and the client pops up a big warning.
In this case, ICE or whomever sets up a "valid" cell tower that your phone connects to, and they (law enforcement) route your packets onto the rest of the Internet. They can decrypt the 5G data, and see all of the IP headers. They can't necessarily read the TLS traffic, such as https. But most important of all, they can log all of the IMEIs that connect, which effectively gives them a database of all of the protestors.
The use of Stingray by US law enforcement has been challenged on grounds that the law enforcement agencies have no spectrum license. Those challenges seem not to have found success.
On the other hand, prisons in the US have been stopped from operating cell phone jammers on prison grounds, on the same complaint of no spectrum license.
I don't know the specific methods, but 3G, 4G and 5G do authenticate bidirectionaly, just 2G doesn't, partially why Android now has "Disable 2G" toggle. Also probably why they said they can downgrade you to 2G to intercept communication.
What's happening here is probably similar to anyone being able to send Wi-Fi deauthentification frame to your device to disconnect you. Unless you're using WPA3.
IMEI/IMSI are collected (and immediately linked, hence deanonymized even if SIM was inserted only once) by cell tower operators. Just not bring your device, period.
Yeah, I agree with that personally, but realistically, "your phone was near a place" is not the same as "you were involved". If they hijack a phone onto a Stingray, they can get way more info than just IMEI.
Yeah, if you go protest you should leave your tracking device at home or, even better, with a friend or relative who you know will not be there. The US government doesn't require subcutaneous tracking chips (yet), you can put yours away.
At protests you should not bring your smartphone but instead rely on anonymous drvices such as Meshtastic.
If you want to bring your smartphone to a protest, set Airplane mode and communicate with others through Bluetooth or WiFi networks using Briar or Bitchat
But we're talking about a protest where bad actors (the police) just want the names of its attendants. Our phones scream to everyone "I am [name surname] and I am here!". Bluetooth instead says the same but with a lower tone of voice, so less people can listen. Also, with little configuration you can instruct it not to broadcast its identifier.
It's amazing how many times I saw this knowledge being spread, together with thousands of umbrellas and hard hats during the Hong Kong riots from day one with "Hong Kong, add oil" as their first slogan combined with very mild mannered arguments (we don't know if it could lead to more serious things) against the extradition law which was supposed to affect maybe half a dozen people per decade, all serious criminals. A law almost every country has on earth that the US used against the daughter of the owner of one of the largest companies in the world, for the flimsiest of reasons, in contrast to the walled-off-to-arrest-one-particular-teen-girl-axe-murderer-to-be-shipped-to-Taiwan-law Hong Kong tried to implement.
How many people have been affected by the Alien Enemies Act again?
And how did the ~~The protests were call "No kings" remember that? Remember that it was called NO KINGS "Unbiased. Straight. Facts" SAN? Do you remember that? No? Okay, well...~~ "anti-ICE" ~~it is~~ protests go?
Because apart from the shocker that you were being surveilled, I think the protests needed a little bit less "Zero demands, not one more" chants and a little more 'We demand and protest until we win and get what we want' kind of thing.
Meshtastic with 3 jumps would be stretching for actual communication. Plus Bluetooth is even worse for security. Direct connection might be a better way to use the device.
I've had meshtastic for about 2 ish years now and its still being worked on.
What is unsafe about cell communication is that there is virtually no way to prevent being tracked. Bluetooth is not necessarily more secure but has several advantages:
1) Its Mac address can be easily changed. With a fake Mac address it's more difficult to track someone down, albeit it needs some "technical skills" (going in the developer settings) 2) With these apps communication is encrypted by default unlike cell tower communication 3) The range is limited. If police listens over Bluetooth they'll be able to track less people down
May I ask you how? Or if you have more info? No criticism here, honest question. Afaik the only way to do that would be to fingerprint a behavioural pattern, which albeit possible is surely more secure than cell communication.
This is exactly why I was railing against some of the earlier protests which featured politicians openly asking protestors to take out their phones and send texts to opt-in for fundraisers. Besides all the obvious bullshit, it put those protestors who didn't know better at serious risk.
Thankfully, I haven't seen too much of that at the protests I've been to recently, but this is a good reminder that we have to keep educating people to leave their phone at home.
Wait politicians were telling people to take their phones and opt-in for fundraisers? I never saw this, what was the reasoning besides "give us money pls"???
When I go to a protest with friends/family we leave our phones at home and then use basic walkie talkies. It's open channel, so no privacy, but the main goal is to just communicate basics like "I'm safe." We predetermine a couple of locations to meet up at if things get rough and we're separated.
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L'uomo era probabilmente un vasaio. L'artrite al piede destro sarebbe compatibile con l'uso prolungato del tornio da vasaio, una tecnologia che si stava diffondendo in Egitto proprio nel periodo in cui egli visse, tra il 2855 e il 2570 a.C. Si tratta di un traguardo fondamentale per l'egittologia, raggiunto grazie a un dente conservato per oltre un secolo in un museo. Il corpo fu scavato intorno al 1902 a Nuwayrat, un villaggio a circa 265 chilometri a sud del Cairo, ma solo oggi la tecnologia ha permesso di estrarne il genoma completo
Tra ieri sera e stamattina, rispettivamente al posto di prendere per bene sonno e di riuscire ad alzarmi dal letto, non ho potuto fare a meno di crogiolarmi dolorosamente in un tremendo interrogativo, naturalmente e casualmente diviso in queste due parti atomiche… Come cazzo è mai possibile che alla notte faccio fatica a decidermi di […]
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Tra ieri sera e stamattina, rispettivamente al posto di prendere per bene sonno e di riuscire ad alzarmi dal letto, non ho potuto fare a meno di crogiolarmi dolorosamente in un tremendo interrogativo, naturalmente e casualmente diviso in queste due parti atomiche… Come cazzo è mai possibile che alla notte faccio fatica a decidermi di andare a dormire, e invece alla mattina proprio non riesco ad alzarmi? E questo è a tutti gli effetti uno di quei dubbi di valenza universale a cui è impossibile trovare una vera risposta, completa e soddisfacente… ma, almeno nel possibile, io esigo spiegazioni. (E fallisco nel trovarle.) 💔
In questo stato della notte, avrei voluto chiedere a ChatGPT “come dormire per sempre“, ma essendo già a letto da un pezzo non avrei sopportato l’aggressione ai miei sensori ottici da parte delle radiazioni ad alta frequenza degli schermi LCD, quindi a malincuore (ossia, con la conseguenza di finire ancora più incazzata, e quindi accumulare ancora più stress, quindi finendo per avere ancora più difficoltà ad addormentarmi) ho rinunciato. Però, adesso, ho potuto almeno rigirargli questa poco più generalizzata domanda, che tocca i due punti del ciclo di distruzione della mia anima tra la notte e il mezzogiorno… e, ovviamente, i muri di testo che ha sputato fuori sono solo sloppa insoddisfacente; non so davvero perché continuo ad aspettarmi qualcosa di più dal parlare con questi modelli di cagaggio. 😾
A parte il memaggio, il fatto è molto strano. In teoria, le condizioni sono tali che dovrebbe sempre andare tutto in perfetto ordine: non procrastinare il posare tutto e mettersi a letto la sera, non avere la testa straripante dei pensieri più misti nel momento in cui devo prendere sonno, e la mattina svegliarmi ad un orario umano e più o meno solito, senza rimanere fino ad una intera ora o quasi a lettomarcire per mancanza di forze nonostante l’aver dormito abbastanza e decentemente. Cioè, non c’è proprio motivo logico per cui io la sera non sento di voler andare a dormire, e la mattina non sento di dovermi alzare… quando la mattina posso fare tranquillamente tutte le cose della sera (e anzi, anche meglio, perché fa meno caldo), e viceversa la sera non ho cose da fare in meno della mattina (colazione a parte… e pensare che la mattina ci sta anche il coffi, ma niente, preferisco il letto a quell’ora). Eppure, la realtà è esattamente questo schifo qua. 💥
“Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate“, c’era scritto davanti alle porte dell’Inferno… e tale e quale dovrebbe essere scritto ai piedi del lettino (…o forse sul lato, altrimenti non si vede quando ci si immerge in esso), che così almeno la sera mi ricordo di che morte devo morire. Non si può dormire in pace, e non ci si può svegliare se non con nostalgia, e ogni giorno il ciclo si ripete, con le promesse e le ispirazioni della mattina che non durano fino a sera senza decomporsi permanentemente, e i propositi e i desideri della notte che la mattina non valgono più niente. Mi chiedo se mai riuscirò a rompere questa maledizione, molto perniciosa e ancora incompresa, nonostante attanaglia buona parte del genere umano… ma penso seriamente che l’unica soluzione per me sarebbe avere una routine di sonno e sveglia attiva 24/7, a tempo indeterminato (infinito), ovviamente dettata da fattori esterni (per esempio, orari di lavoro), altrimenti non posso fattualmente rispettarla (ops). (Oppure, appunto, datemi un modo per semplicemente dormire per sempre e la finisco qui, ve ne sarei eternamente grata.) ⚱️ Sul serio, comunque, io proprio non capisco. La sera voglio fare le cose, e la mattina alle 11 suonate voglio semplicemente rimanere ancora nel letto, a fare niente se non cliccare OFF sulla sveglia quando suona. Ma come cazzo si fa!!! Ho 3 neuroni di numero e questi non riescono a mettersi d’accordo su qualcosa di così scemo!!! BASTA!!! 😭 #bedrotting #dormire #girlrotting #rotting #rottingcore #sleep #sonno
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Governments are going about this the wrong way. The problem isn’t with app stores. The problem is that you can’t install a different OS on your phone (or current Mac, or iPad).
The problem is that you don't own the right to use your own device the way you see fit, and are instead locked into systems you can't escape from.
You should be able to freely install the software you like, be that an OS, a third party app or even your own program, and you should be able to use all the features of your devices, freely, without being locked out due to the app or accessory not being first party.
I'm waiting for the EU to eventually say "Ok nevermind, this is clearly a company that isn't going to be compliant. If not compliant by X date this company will no longer be allowed to operate here"
Or a hella massive fine for blatant waste of regulators time plus non-compliance.
I’ve been saying for the past two years that Apple should stop doing business in the EU, but every time that I bring that up someone points out the manufacturer of the chip making machine is based in the EU therefore no one can pull out.
the manufacturer of the chip making machine is based in the EU therefore no one can pull out
This has nothing to do with anything, really. It's not like, because I don't sell in the US I can't use American made steel or something.
The actual reason why Apple, and every other company, doesn't want to leave the EU (China for that matter) despite increasingly stringent regulations, it's because the EU represents a huge portion of their revenue and leaving would mean losing billions upon billions, all in the hopes of saving millions.
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An international research team has found that black eye makeup used between the 9th and 7th centuries BCE in the northwest of today's Iran contained natural graphite and manganese oxide—unlike the typical kohl of the time used across the Ancient…
Sul serio, comunque, io proprio non capisco. La sera voglio fare le cose, e la mattina alle 11 suonate voglio semplicemente rimanere ancora nel letto, a fare niente se non cliccare OFF sulla sveglia quando suona. Ma come cazzo si fa!!! Ho 3 neuroni di numero e questi non riescono a mettersi d’accordo su qualcosa di così scemo!!! BASTA!!! 😭
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I flashed a $10 orbic to take to local protests.
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
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in reply to egrets • • •At the moment, about all you can do is let others know and submit the log to EFF so they can better understand how these stingrays are being used.
Or I guess if you're feeling froggy; look around for a van/trailer with suspicious antenna(s).
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in reply to fattyfoods • • •Well I see a problem there. It doesn’t specify the cause of the danger or the reason the person is in danger in the first place.
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in reply to plz1 • • •I assume it's the same as the Internet (or more specifically HTTP): It wasn't designed with security in mind.
Unlike HTTP, for some reason it wasn't included in a new specification, though. My guess is that's because of the more centralized nature of cellular networks. The barrier for entry is a lot higher as well so there are few but big players who have little incentive to improve over the bare minimum.
IIRC encryption was initially proposed to be part of 5G but got shot down in the process.
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in reply to einkorn • • •Wait, 5G isn't encrypted? I think it does have some protections still. I mean, not that it would matter to me, they only use NR-NSA in my country so it isn't even full 5G with all its advantages.
At the risk of sounding like an AI-generated ad, I use an app called Privacy Cell on Fdroid, that confirmed there is no true 5G anywhere in my country. I just wish there was a way to differentiate between the two versions of 5G natively, kinda like 4G-LTE showing up as LTE instead of just 4G.
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in reply to theshatterstone54 • • •Encrypted data channels can still be vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. Like when you connect to an unknown host with SSH, and the client pops up a big warning.
In this case, ICE or whomever sets up a "valid" cell tower that your phone connects to, and they (law enforcement) route your packets onto the rest of the Internet. They can decrypt the 5G data, and see all of the IP headers. They can't necessarily read the TLS traffic, such as https. But most important of all, they can log all of the IMEIs that connect, which effectively gives them a database of all of the protestors.
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in reply to plz1 • • •I believe it's because they assume it's not necessary because it was until now
places) wireless band allocation before you could deploy anything
... so I imagine there was no authentication because there was no practical threat beside few "fun" examples in CCC or DEF Con.
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in reply to utopiah • • •The use of Stingray by US law enforcement has been challenged on grounds that the law enforcement agencies have no spectrum license. Those challenges seem not to have found success.
On the other hand, prisons in the US have been stopped from operating cell phone jammers on prison grounds, on the same complaint of no spectrum license.
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in reply to plz1 • • •I don't know the specific methods, but 3G, 4G and 5G do authenticate bidirectionaly, just 2G doesn't, partially why Android now has "Disable 2G" toggle.
Also probably why they said they can downgrade you to 2G to intercept communication.
What's happening here is probably similar to anyone being able to send Wi-Fi deauthentification frame to your device to disconnect you. Unless you're using WPA3.
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in reply to fattyfoods • • •At protests you should not bring your smartphone but instead rely on anonymous drvices such as Meshtastic.
If you want to bring your smartphone to a protest, set Airplane mode and communicate with others through Bluetooth or WiFi networks using Briar or Bitchat
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in reply to Maeve • • •Not at the same scale as mobile traffic
Bluetooth by definition doesn’t go much past 10-20 meters
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in reply to tired_n_bored • • •It's amazing how many times I saw this knowledge being spread, together with thousands of umbrellas and hard hats during the Hong Kong riots from day one with "Hong Kong, add oil" as their first slogan combined with very mild mannered arguments (we don't know if it could lead to more serious things) against the extradition law which was supposed to affect maybe half a dozen people per decade, all serious criminals. A law almost every country has on earth that the US used against the daughter of the owner of one of the largest companies in the world, for the flimsiest of reasons, in contrast to the walled-off-to-arrest-one-particular-teen-girl-axe-murderer-to-be-shipped-to-Taiwan-law Hong Kong tried to implement.
How many people have been affected by the Alien Enemies Act again?
And how did the ~~The protests were call "No kings" remember that? Remember that it was called NO KINGS "Unbiased. Straight. Facts" SAN? Do you remember that? No? Okay, well...~~ "anti-ICE" ~~it is~~ protests go?
Because apart from the shocker that you were being surveilled, I think the protests needed a little bit less "Zero demands, not one more" chants and a little more 'We demand and protest until we win and get what we want' kind of thing.
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in reply to tired_n_bored • • •Meshtastic with 3 jumps would be stretching for actual communication. Plus Bluetooth is even worse for security. Direct connection might be a better way to use the device.
I've had meshtastic for about 2 ish years now and its still being worked on.
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in reply to mesa • • •What is unsafe about cell communication is that there is virtually no way to prevent being tracked. Bluetooth is not necessarily more secure but has several advantages:
1) Its Mac address can be easily changed. With a fake Mac address it's more difficult to track someone down, albeit it needs some "technical skills" (going in the developer settings)
2) With these apps communication is encrypted by default unlike cell tower communication
3) The range is limited. If police listens over Bluetooth they'll be able to track less people down
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in reply to fattyfoods • • •This is exactly why I was railing against some of the earlier protests which featured politicians openly asking protestors to take out their phones and send texts to opt-in for fundraisers. Besides all the obvious bullshit, it put those protestors who didn't know better at serious risk.
Thankfully, I haven't seen too much of that at the protests I've been to recently, but this is a good reminder that we have to keep educating people to leave their phone at home.
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