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I am familiar with the technology and have worked on it directly with one of the companies mentioned in the article. It was originally designed for CT measures
by steveplace 18y ago
I am familiar with the technology and have worked on it directly with one of the companies mentioned in the article.
It was originally designed for CT measures in Iraq, since roadside bombs were being detonated by remotes on GSM and CDMA bands.
That people want to carry it out to this extent frightens me. Big brother aside, it limits our ability to use 911 services (unless you specify a certain reject code to kick the phone to emergency mode).
We seriously need to put local and state governments under scruitiny when it comes to using cellular exploits such as these. Cellular protocols are not secure at all so any attack you can think of is plausible (intercept, tracking, man in the middle, etc). I don't know what sort of precedents that there are for other communication mediums, but we need to develop a sensible legal framework within which to work when dealing with these technologies.
- kogir 18y agoSo, at least with bombs, wouldn't jamming devices allow for better targeting? For instance, if I know jamming is employed, I could create a trigger that detects the jamming (not very subtle and only available to the military), and goes off when the jamming intensity starts to decline. This would allow the bomb to go off right as the jamming device passes, causing maximum damage, no? NOTE: I would never build such a device.
- steveplace 18y agoThat's not how cell phone jamming works; it's not a real "jam" of all frequencies. I don't know how much detail I can get into, but essentially you pretend you're a base station and you disallow all calls to that phone. So your trigger would have to be much more intricate than that.