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Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying (www.eff.org)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day 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.

[–] JigglySackles 1 points 23 hours ago

Reshipper possibly. Still expensive to ship though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And perhaps different wavelengths?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Could you elaborate on this please?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day 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 -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hazor 5 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

I looked and it seems these hotspots are Verizon-specific. Is that what we're supposed to get?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Should matter since you're running different firmware it sounds like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Should matter or shouldn't matter?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 10 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Neat!