Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our new tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them. - ThreadSky

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eff.org • 76 days ago

Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our new tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them.

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pyperkub.bsky.social•74 days ago

Seems like you should be able to run this on a cell-phone's mobile hotspot too, and not need the additional hardware. Is there a reason why that's not in place?

Besides the whole yeah, you'd need your phone on and being tracked to do so... (bring your faraday bags!)

stargonewrong.gay•75 days ago

during the George Floyd uprising, they were using stingrays or something else to block us texting facebook livestreams. my friend was siting right next to me and every other text went through 🥶

think that's bad? you can't trust phone calls or SMS anymore, like at all:

navinram.bsky.social•76 days ago

I see this runs on a particular mobile hotspot as a PoC.

Sorry to ask a stupid question but could this Rust code be reused to make mobile apps for iOS / Android which does the same? Or are there restrictions on the device functions it would access to on the mobile platforms?

navinram.bsky.social•76 days ago

“would need access to”

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