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Assuming it looks the same as a normal tower, you could still make a map of existing cell phone towers (crowdsourced from the phones themselves, or there's prob
by fiatmoney 12y ago
Assuming it looks the same as a normal tower, you could still make a map of existing cell phone towers (crowdsourced from the phones themselves, or there's probably a regulatory filing somewhere with the information). If your connection is better than it "should" be, you may have found a Stingray.
- bribri 12y agoIt looks like this website may have that information http://www.cellreception.com/ http://www.cellreception.com/ Establishing a baseline signal strength might be difficult due to environmental factors.
- rjsw 12y agoI would guess that you wouldn't be able to make a call through the Stingray.
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoI'm not sure if the Stingray is a passive eavesdropper or a MITM, but it can be configured to record phone call content. http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/fishhawk.pdf http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/fishha...
- thefreeman 12y agoI don't think you would even need to use the signal strength. You could just flag / block cell towers which are newly detected (say 24-48 hours). Crowd sourcing seems pretty perfect for this, and it's not like new cell phone towers are erected that frequently.
- tmosleyIII 12y agoIts not just about detecting a tower, they spit out a friends list for your phone to know the different zones in the area. That list changes.