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Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying (www.eff.org)
submitted 5 months ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I bought one of the hotspots and look forward to what I find after flashing it.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 11 points 5 months ago

Same here. I really hope I find nothing, but I also hope I find something.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I looked and it seems these hotspots are Verizon-specific. Is that what we're supposed to get?

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Shouldn't matter since you're running different firmware it sounds like.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Should matter or shouldn't matter?

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Shouldn't, fixed that typo hah

[–] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I assume the eff's link was both specific and intentional. Mine showed up yesterday and installing the thing was very easy. Looks to work.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

Makes sense.

[–] ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Hard to get in EU. If anyone knows a way to get one in EU (no Amazon), let me know. The issue is the shipping cost.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Reshipper possibly. Still expensive to ship though.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've got this running. Haven't caught any Stingrays yet but I also haven't been into town yet.

E: Went into town for SXSW, still nothing

[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Does this detect only Verizon bands or does it work for AT&T/T-Mobile towers too? I'm tempted to get this just out of curiosity but if it's only Verizon bands it's not really useful to me unless the fake towers attach to any device regardless of carrier.

Edit: Was able to find a brand new one on Ebay for a whopping $12 after taxes with free shipping. At the very least it'll be a nice paperweight if it proves useless to me. 😆

[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I've set up a community specifically for release updates from the Rayhunter Github at !Rayhunter@lemm.ee if anyone is interested

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

Neat!