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Electronic Frontier Foundation Mar 5, 2025

Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our new tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

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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the esoteric programmer Mar 6, 2025

@eff so that actually exists? I thought it was @pluralistic's invention, nope, the world really is as bad

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these things are useually ilegal because you need a license to operate radio technology in almost all juristrictions. However that works more as a barrier for entry to competing companies, than it does as a deterant to criminals.