RayHunter - Building the EFFs IMSI Catcher Detector

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Just Integrated @eff's #Rayhunter into #homeassistant .

A Rayhunter-compatible TP-Link M7350 costs less than 50€ and is an great Gadget to learn more about mobile networks.

How to Detect Phone Spying Tech (with Cooper Quintin)

Joseph speaks to Cooper Quintin all about how to find fake cell phone towers that can track your movements or intercept text messages.

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@josephcox @404mediaco @JohnKiriakou @eff "The #Rayhunter itself is waay behind the kinds of technology you would encounter in signals intelligence. But we're scrappy civilians trying to figure this out. If we looked at populations in #Russia, #China, or #NorthKorea and saw that ordinary folks..."
@josephcox @404mediaco @JohnKiriakou And then I pulled out a device I had in my pocket, something very familiar to @josephcox . "This is a #Rayhunter. You may have heard of devices like this. It's a bespoke consumer device that has been #hacked on by researchers at the @eff , with contributions from a company called Cape.co ..."

How to Detect Phone Spying Tech (with Cooper Quintin)

Joseph speaks to #CooperQuintin , a #security researcher & senior public interest technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Quintin is one of the people behind #Rayhunter , an easy to install tool that can detect nearby #IMSIcatchers. This tech, sometimes known as #Stingrays , poses as a fake #cellphone tower to track a phone’s location, intercept calls & texts, & can sometimes even deliver #malware

https://www.404media.co/how-to-detect-phone-spying-tech-with-cooper-quintin/

How to Detect Phone Spying Tech (with Cooper Quintin)

Joseph speaks to Cooper Quintin all about how to find fake cell phone towers that can track your movements or intercept text messages.

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Busy #amateurradio adjacent day yesterday.

Flashed #rayhunter to a recently procured Orbic

Installed a local instance of #openhamclock on a Raspberry Pi 5

And while I was at it and setting a static address for the Pi I installed #pihole as well.

#hamradio #eff

this #FinalStraw podcast episode interviews #CooperQuintin who has developed #rayhunter . a $20 device to detect #CellSiteSimulators aka #stingrays which are tech tools pigs use to track activists to the exact location they're at.

essential info for anyone on the radar of authorities for whatever reason.

more info https://eff.org

https://pca.st/episode/66e18d87-e5bb-40f4-bb5d-f2462baa4b6a

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Wow @eff could not have made the #RayHunter install any easier. If you can unzip a file, connect to a network, and run a script, you can flash an Orbic in seconds. I just did. The most difficult part was figuring out where the Orbic kept its admin password. Turned out it was the default Wifi password. (And I would have know that if I had #RTFM )

Great work team!

#IMSI #IMSICatcher #StingRay

Decided to roleplay as an infosec nerd today and set up a Rayhunter on the usual Orbic RC400L device:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

Next step, actually attending a protest.

#rayhunter #eff

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS) around the world.

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