Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying (www.eff.org)
from yogthos@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 10 Sep 18:03
https://lemmy.ml/post/35957406

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shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip on 10 Sep 19:25 next collapse

Looking at the date of the article, apparently this was released in March of 2025, but I had not heard of it, so it’s good to once in a while see older articles like this resurface again.

BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works on 10 Sep 22:44 next collapse

The followup article is interestinf eff.org/…/rayhunter-what-we-have-found-so-far

irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 11 Sep 03:07 next collapse

Still pretty limited set of supported devices, but it’s not really mean to be a defensive tool. Would be nice if this results in a way to detect and prevent your device from connecting to them, someday.

efforg.github.io/rayhunter/

fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com on 11 Sep 13:11 collapse

To @irotsoma@lemmy.world’s point, could a phone app be made to :

  • Record tower eNBID, signal strength, and GPS coordinates on a regular basis
  • If, near a given GPS coordinate, eNBID is now different, or the same with significantly changed strength, alert the user

Theoretically this would allow a device to notify on a new “tower”/etc. Oddly enough I’m going to be around a bunch of telecom people in the coming weeks, so I might ask about this.