happily i found your thread last night!
I am searching about this topics (Catcher,silentSMS,cliphering indicator...) for the last 5 month.
And the catcher-catcher project is the best i could find in the net. There is a lot of expirience, how to catch'em.
(i think they have the best strategy)
... than I asked the guys of OpenSignalMaps if it is possible to catch the catcher with CellID and other informations. He said it could be possible, to identify a faked-station - but not shure how good it works.
Anyway there is another use of Maps like this...
see openBmap(openbmap.org), Open CellID(opencellid.org) -
1. to be able to find the location.
With 3 Smartphones it is possible to get the exact position.
2. to tell others about the fake-station, so they simple dont communicate with it.
3. in the german Wiki (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-Catcher) the point "Nachweisbarkeit" - you see this diagram - you need 2 cellphone to measure the signals. Some kind of community would be great to collect important data.
And maybe this would help people in certain countries?
what do you think?
There are many links and infos i would share with you, but right now its only a bunch of bookmarks and .pdf - i need to clean up first.
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I will start with my diploma soon and i am still looking for the right
theme. I have 6 - 9 month for that final "big"-work, then i will be finished! Maybe i should examine the "Androids development against IMSI-Catcher and other vulnerabilities."- as my diploma theme.
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E:V:A! you did some really googd work with collecting information and find the right questions - especially the part of "how can you help"!
It does not sound so easy, to get it working on a android phone.
I was working with java for another project, but i am not a very fast programmer. But maybe we can work together on the code, on github?
I am also not shure how to link to the pdf's i have on my harddisk.
If we had a closed area i would upload it.
have a good time,