Hi all, On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 08:40:42PM +0100, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: > Yeah, technically someone with a USRP could seed a 20 minute airwave dump, > and you could replay it into whatever software you were using, but again, it > wouldn't be as fun.. Not sure about the legal implication either :S This is > what the guys at THC did tho back in 2008 I believe...
Anyone with a Siemens BS-11 and OpenBSC (which is more than 70 people in this "open GSM community") can run a cell that does encryption, and more recently even with frequency hopping. Running a USRP1 or USRP2 in the vicinity while making phoen calls and sending/receiving SMS on that cell is also possible for many of those people. There are no legal issues working with such a set of test data! And regarding the "not as much fun" aspect: Whether or not you have the hardware will not change your ability to improve the codebase. I think people fool themselves by buying+owning the hardware, testing it with airprobe and then simply waiting for somebody else to improve the software. Why not do it the other way around: improve the software and once you have reached your goal, reward yourself with buying the hardware. Or alternatively: See the reward by everyone else being happy about the improved code, and then start to work on less expensive hardware, if there really is a need for it. But that new hardware without better software will not make it any easier for other people to play with airprobe. -- - Harald Welte <lafo...@gnumonks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)
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