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Defcon 18 - Practical Cellphone Spying - Chris Paget - Part.mov

killab66661 · 216.8K views · 2010-12-12 · 52:33

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Chris Paget's DEF CON 18 talk on practical cellphone spying, showing how GSM traffic can be intercepted with a fake base station. It covers 2G interception and the weaknesses of cellular networks.

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HN points to it as a worrying but technically solid explanation of how cell interception works, even if the talk is old.

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dontbenebby · 2022-06 · Recommendation

Worse since they're expensive and pushed by the manufacturer to the point you cannot physically plug a 3.5mm male plug into a female adapter on the newer phones -- you are forced to buy a dongle. Meanwhile the intelligence agencies of the world siphon up signals like hungry hungry hippos because SDRs are cheap and ubiquitious, when ten-ish years ago they were poorly documented, expensive, and the encryption schemes used strong enough using 4g over wifi was a very practical security decision. Here's an old talk that references someone's deadname with good technical information: [VIDEO] And a more recent talk on similar subjects: [LINK] | [LINK] (Apologies to Kristin, if they see this: I had trouble locating JUST the slides, not audio or video, of the DC18 talk or I would have simply linked the slides.)

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Sir_Cmpwn · 2015-12 · Reference

[VIDEO] I watched this DEFCON talk a while ago. Not sure if it's still relevant, but it is quite worrying.

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mey · 2015-12 · Reference

I don't have the details in mind but checkout [LINK] Since digital, handsets validate the tower they are talking too, this info is stored on sim or device depending on model. So to intercept 2g, there is some work See [VIDEO]

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