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Very neat. Shame that 'interested companies can contact me'. Would be fun to know how such base-stations - when attached to antenna - can be used to spoof thin

Very neat. Shame that 'interested companies can contact me'. Would be fun to know how such base-stations - when attached to antenna - can be used to spoof things and perform attacks. Lets hope that comes up at some blackhat conference soon...

zvikara 14y ago
Fabrice has contributed to opensource more than almost anybody here. Absolutely no shame if he prefer to keep the source closed this time.
- jeormormont 14y ago
  I think perhaps you've missed the point of free and open source software.
  - wr1472 14y ago
    "...of free and open source software." Not everything you write has to be free and open source.
RachelF 14y ago
Yes, it is a big shame that this is not open source. I wonder how much he plans on making from this?
- wr1472 14y ago
  I hope he makes a shed-load from this. I wouldn't begrudge him any of it, given his contributions to the software community to date.
- axusgrad 14y ago
  Perhaps it is GPL license AND commercial software.
- kamaal 14y ago
  Why shouldn't he make money out of this? Good developer != ready to work for peanuts.
blinkingled 14y ago
I would not be surprised if his intent is to first make money on his insanely hard and smart work and then make it open source later on. I think he has done something similar with another project of his - I just don't recall which one.
- tonfa 14y ago
  kqemu was originally closed source. Not sure why it was open sourced, competitive advantage went away?
  - blinkingled 14y ago
    Yeah, kqemu. As far as the reason, that definitely might be it. KVM killed the need for kqemu. May be Harald Welte and co will release a GPL implementation which will force Ballard to open source his. Evil genius :)
noselasd 14y ago
While not LTE, here's GSM stuff: * http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/ http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/ * http://openbts.sourceforge.net/ http://openbts.sourceforge.net/ Some related videos: * Fuzzing GSM handsets - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGPOscdLPFQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGPOscdLPFQ * Running your own GSM network - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_9hPRF5fzA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_9hPRF5fzA * OpenBSC - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWPom6JIsr4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWPom6JIsr4 Here's one building a satelite phone receiver/sniffer: * http://gmr.osmocom.org/trac/ http://gmr.osmocom.org/trac/ * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSW-V94uZZQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSW-V94uZZQ Open Source GSM protocols (on handsets): * http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/ http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/

zvikara 14y ago

Fabrice has contributed to opensource more than almost anybody here. Absolutely no shame if he prefer to keep the source closed this time.

jeormormont 14y ago
I think perhaps you've missed the point of free and open source software.
- wr1472 14y ago
  "...of free and open source software." Not everything you write has to be free and open source.

RachelF 14y ago

Yes, it is a big shame that this is not open source. I wonder how much he plans on making from this?

wr1472 14y ago
I hope he makes a shed-load from this. I wouldn't begrudge him any of it, given his contributions to the software community to date.
axusgrad 14y ago
Perhaps it is GPL license AND commercial software.
kamaal 14y ago
Why shouldn't he make money out of this? Good developer != ready to work for peanuts.

blinkingled 14y ago

I would not be surprised if his intent is to first make money on his insanely hard and smart work and then make it open source later on. I think he has done something similar with another project of his - I just don't recall which one.

tonfa 14y ago
kqemu was originally closed source. Not sure why it was open sourced, competitive advantage went away?
- blinkingled 14y ago
  Yeah, kqemu. As far as the reason, that definitely might be it. KVM killed the need for kqemu. May be Harald Welte and co will release a GPL implementation which will force Ballard to open source his. Evil genius :)

noselasd 14y ago

While not LTE, here's GSM stuff: * http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/ http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/ * http://openbts.sourceforge.net/ http://openbts.sourceforge.net/ Some related videos: * Fuzzing GSM handsets - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGPOscdLPFQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGPOscdLPFQ * Running your own GSM network - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_9hPRF5fzA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_9hPRF5fzA * OpenBSC - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWPom6JIsr4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWPom6JIsr4 Here's one building a satelite phone receiver/sniffer: * http://gmr.osmocom.org/trac/ http://gmr.osmocom.org/trac/ * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSW-V94uZZQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSW-V94uZZQ Open Source GSM protocols (on handsets): * http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/ http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/