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Not knowing how to find them, is a load of crap. You can certainly find them, it just takes expensive equipment and time.
by madengr 8y ago
Not knowing how to find them, is a load of crap. You can certainly find them, it just takes expensive equipment and time.
- SSLy 8y agoor just asking the cell towers providers for list of genuine hardware, and then cross-checking that against triangulated antennas.
- Scoundreller 8y agoIf it were me, the antenna would be a few hundred feet away from the equipment. And the antenna wouldn’t be anything like an antenna, just something that looks like a lawn-chair. And I’d move it every day or two. And definitely not run it 24h!!! Could still be found, but good luck.
- exikyut 8y agoHmm, then you need a super-mega-amplifier tacked on to boost the signal over the cable (AFAIK, the frequencies used really like short antenna runs). So that then means a super-thick faraday cage around the actual device, and probably somewhat noteworthy power consumption (a battery certainly wouldn't be enough).
- coolspot 8y agoProbably meant transmitter (antennae + encoder/decoder) separated from actual BTS hardware & operatives. So after counter-side finds your camouflaged BTS, it is only disposable and relatively cheap part and doesn’t lead to whole operation uncover. That probe part then would connect to starbucks wi-fi and interact with BTS software somewhere far from physical location, so you can’t quickly trace channel between probe and spy team.
- exikyut 8y agoDoh. I see, of course. Yeah, I'd gotten it in my head the BTS (TXCO) and the probe equipment needed to be super close together...