![]() It’s great if you want to set up a few base stations at Burning Man and hand out SIM cards like ecstasy, but GSM has encryption. Of course, if you want to look at the less legitimate applications of this hardware, ’s build is only good at receiving/tapping/intercepting unencrypted GSM signals. Software is a little trickier, but has all the instructions. This, combined with two rubber duck antennas, a Raspberry Pi 3, and a USB power bank is all the hardware you need. has been playing around with a brand new BladeRF x40, a USB 3.0 software defined radio that operates in full duplex. ![]() Here’s how you build your own Stingray using off the shelf hardware. ![]() Of course, what the government can do for $100,000, anyone else can do for five hundred. Off-the-shelf Stingray devices cost somewhere between $16,000 and $125,000, far too rich for a poor hacker’s pocketbook. There are legitimate privacy and legal concerns, but there’s also some fun tech in mobile cell-phone stations. Over the last few years, news that police, military, and intelligence organizations use portable cellular phone surveillance devices – colloquially known as the ‘Stingray’ – has gotten out, despite their best efforts to keep a lid on the practice.
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