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If the price came down a lot, you could do this with a home base station. Still illegal, but I think unlikely to be noticed. I am not a cellular engineer. Like
by indrax 16y ago
If the price came down a lot, you could do this with a home base station. Still illegal, but I think unlikely to be noticed. I am not a cellular engineer.
Likewise, anything out in the middle of nowhere like burning man could probably do this covertly.
Governments in other nations might view this in an entirely different way: cheap infrastructure.
Plus, this is a great example when arguing for opening up these frequencies a bit here.
- mattmillr 16y agoWasn't there an article posted here last week about hackers using this same software stack to spoof towers and intercept calls with about $1500 in gear?
- mctavjb9 16y agoAre you referring to Chris Paget's demo at DEFCON at the end of July? OpenBTS can in fact be used for nefarious purposes (or to demonstrate the intrinsic insecurity of the GSM standard). It could also in principle be used by law enforcement agencies to track criminals.
- sigstoat 16y agoif you want wireless phones in your home that talk SIP, they're available in the form of DECT phones with SIP-capable basestations, or WiFi phones. you could get quite a few of either of them before your cost reaches the cost of this thing. also you won't have to figure in the cost of a massive FCC fine.