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IMSI catchers are not limited to law enforcement, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18469118 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18469118 > With $20 of Gea

IMSI catchers are not limited to law enforcement, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18469118 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18469118 > With $20 of Gear from Amazon, Nearly Anyone Can Make This IMSI-Catcher in 30 Minutes. Surveillance takes on different character when it trickles down to more ordinary, everyday users. The significance and threat from IMSI-catchers is multiplied when a lot more people can deploy one using cheap tech from Amazon and free code from Github. Looks like U of Washington has a 2017 paper on city-scale tower anomaly detection, https://seaglass.cs.washington.edu/ https://seaglass.cs.washington.edu/ & https://seaglass-web.s3.amazonaws.com/SeaGlass___PETS_2017.pdf https://seaglass-web.s3.amazonaws.com/SeaGlass___PETS_2017.p...

dfc 4y ago
That $20 quote is for 2g.
__MatrixMan__ 4y ago
An adversary is an adversary, law enforcement or otherwise. If you crowd source a list of that's useful in limiting your adversary's skulduggery, they're going to figure out how to become part of that crowd and "contribute" to your list in ways that make it useless. The fix is to get the crowd to participate in some kind of hygiene/self policing activity: Not impossible, but if we had a readily available solution to that problem we wouldn't have governments that don't follow their rules in the first place