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Are there any standalone tools that can be used to capture the meta-information about cell towers? It seems like it would be really useful to crowdsource known
by codezero 11y ago
Are there any standalone tools that can be used to capture the meta-information about cell towers?
It seems like it would be really useful to crowdsource known towers, their identities and strengths, so that simulators can be singled out.
- bottled_poe 11y agoIt exists: http://opencellid.org http://opencellid.org
- yqoa1r0jb0p0 11y agoMozilla has an even larger database. https://location.services.mozilla.com/downloads https://location.services.mozilla.com/downloads If you want to contribute, there's an opt-in toggle in Firefox for Android.
- mirimir 11y agoOK, this seems to be all GSM towers. I wonder how one would select the fake ones. Edit: Not just GSM.
- adrtessier 11y agoThe AIMSICD application mentioned above for Android uses this as a synchronizable data source.
- ipunchghosts 11y agoany rtlsdr or ettus radio can capture cell metadata. Most of the tools to process the captures are linux based but highly automated.
- akerro 11y agohttp://www.radiocells.org/ http://www.radiocells.org/ if you want something that's opensource both software and data. You can download whole database of wifis and cells from radiocells.