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This sounds like such a good idea, I think the US government will outlaw it.

by cowbell 12y ago

lallysingh 12y ago
Probably not. They don't want to bring up their own tactics in court for challenge.
- pyre 12y ago
  They'll just put the developers on a terrorist watch list instead...
  - cowbell 12y ago
    I'm confident they already do. I really doubt they stop at "I hunt sysadmins"
    - slashdotaccount 12y ago
      Of course law enforcements won't like the Project. Of course there will always be people in this world who think they can do whatever they want, when they want it and kill people using fully automated drones with IMSI-Catchers on board. But why should we think we "can't do anything"? We are the people, we have RIGHTS! So grab your balls and contribute! Oh, and for the shy ones, here's the disclaimer: https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/blob/master/DISCLAIMER https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/blo...
slashdotaccount 12y ago
How will they outlaw an open-source project? They can "outlaw" all they want, they're already doing what they want, when they want it. It's time for the brave people out there to fight back! Have some balls and stand against the massive abuse of your most private data!
- cowbell 12y ago
  Look at the attempts to outlaw apps like Trapster. You give away the position of speed traps and DUI checkpoints and cops don't like that. Last I heard, Trapster was forced to remove DUI checkpoints to stay on the app store. That was after attempts to rule it illegal in court failed. Same result. Crowdsourced DUI checkpoint apps are effectively gone if the stores don't have them. If only a few sideloaders have them, then there's no crowd to source. This would work in a similar manner, but would expose the cops' fake cell towers. I fully expect this to suffer a similar fate. That is not to say I don't like the project. I commented just so I could find it again in the future :)
  - slashdotaccount 12y ago
    That is exactly the reason why we keep this porject as open-source as possible, have a disclaimer for it which basically tells YOU to be responsible what you do with the code and most importantly, we are on NO STORE, especially not GooglePlay. If an App moves to GooglePlay and does something that not plays by the rediculous "rules" (serach for what happened to the awesome HushSMS), they're kicked. If any store, then F-Droid. But for now, why not just grab the most recent compiled WIP-Release from here and give it a shot? https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/releases https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/rel... Also, as much as I appreciate your comment just to find this thread later on, this is NOT the official discussion of the App. I HIGHLY recommend just starring the GitHub and (if you have balls) contribute to it's success by submitting pull requests. Thanks for listening, spread the link to the GitHub in all social media and places where potential developers and good Hackers hang out! ;-)

This sounds like such a good idea, I think the US government will outlaw it.

by cowbell 12y ago

This sounds like such a good idea, I think the US government will outlaw it.

lallysingh 12y ago

Probably not. They don't want to bring up their own tactics in court for challenge.

pyre 12y ago
They'll just put the developers on a terrorist watch list instead...
- cowbell 12y ago
  I'm confident they already do. I really doubt they stop at "I hunt sysadmins"
  - slashdotaccount 12y ago
    Of course law enforcements won't like the Project. Of course there will always be people in this world who think they can do whatever they want, when they want it and kill people using fully automated drones with IMSI-Catchers on board. But why should we think we "can't do anything"? We are the people, we have RIGHTS! So grab your balls and contribute! Oh, and for the shy ones, here's the disclaimer: https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/blob/master/DISCLAIMER https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/blo...

slashdotaccount 12y ago

How will they outlaw an open-source project? They can "outlaw" all they want, they're already doing what they want, when they want it. It's time for the brave people out there to fight back! Have some balls and stand against the massive abuse of your most private data!

cowbell 12y ago
Look at the attempts to outlaw apps like Trapster. You give away the position of speed traps and DUI checkpoints and cops don't like that. Last I heard, Trapster was forced to remove DUI checkpoints to stay on the app store. That was after attempts to rule it illegal in court failed. Same result. Crowdsourced DUI checkpoint apps are effectively gone if the stores don't have them. If only a few sideloaders have them, then there's no crowd to source. This would work in a similar manner, but would expose the cops' fake cell towers. I fully expect this to suffer a similar fate. That is not to say I don't like the project. I commented just so I could find it again in the future :)
- slashdotaccount 12y ago
  That is exactly the reason why we keep this porject as open-source as possible, have a disclaimer for it which basically tells YOU to be responsible what you do with the code and most importantly, we are on NO STORE, especially not GooglePlay. If an App moves to GooglePlay and does something that not plays by the rediculous "rules" (serach for what happened to the awesome HushSMS), they're kicked. If any store, then F-Droid. But for now, why not just grab the most recent compiled WIP-Release from here and give it a shot? https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/releases https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/rel... Also, as much as I appreciate your comment just to find this thread later on, this is NOT the official discussion of the App. I HIGHLY recommend just starring the GitHub and (if you have balls) contribute to it's success by submitting pull requests. Thanks for listening, spread the link to the GitHub in all social media and places where potential developers and good Hackers hang out! ;-)