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Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying (www.eff.org)
submitted 3 days ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 10 points 3 days ago

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

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

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

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

Should matter or shouldn't matter?

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Shouldn't, fixed that typo hah

[–] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 1 points 2 days 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 1 day ago

Makes sense.

[–] ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 days ago (3 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.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And perhaps different wavelengths?

[–] pjusk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Could you elaborate on this please?

[–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Something something EU has other standards then USA, for example with Walkie talkies its illegal to use frequencies that US uses in EU and the other way around.

Its the same with cellular, US and EU has other Standards and the eff device may not be suitable to use those frequencies

[–] jungle@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Phones bought in the US work in Europe and vice versa.

[–] Hazor@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Most phones support multiple regions' frequency bands, especially these days. Some don't, probably mostly older ones. Manufacturers used to make different versions of the same model for different regions.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Reshipper possibly. Still expensive to ship though.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day 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

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago

Neat!