Re: huawei (oscilloscopes and frequency analysis)

[Brian Reichert <reichert () numachi com>]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 02:31:37PM -0600, Phil Fagan wrote:
> now THAT would be a cool project!

(I missed the beginnig of this thread; sorry if this is a repeat.)

There was the fellow demonstrating a spoofed 2G GSM tower at DefCon
recently:

  http://www.forbes.com/sites/firewall/2010/07/31/despite-fcc-scare-tactics-researcher-demos-att-eavesdropping/

And the YouTube video was pretty cool to watch, for technical depth.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXVHPNhsOzo

Part of his talk described how he could (up a point) block 3G, to
cause phones to fail over to 2G, where he could get them.

4G is a whole different thing, but the talk was educational, nonetheless...


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Brian Reichert                          <reichert () numachi com>
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