Re:How to Build Your Own Rogue GSM BTS for Fun and Profit
by peterwwillis on Saturday April 02, 2016 @07:41PM
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People who buy football equipment are aware that you can injure people playing football and generally don't play football in a midtown Manhattan office, for example.
People who buy BTS equipment are aware that they are creating a cell tower and it will affect people around them and the police and cell network providers will not be happy with them if that happens.
Re:How to Build Your Own Rogue GSM BTS for Fun and Profit
by CraigJPerry on Saturday April 02, 2016 @07:44PM
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> they would potentially affect hundreds
Unlikely since the range of this device is about a single small / medium apartment building.
Re:How to Build Your Own Rogue GSM BTS for Fun and Profit
by archimedespi on Saturday April 02, 2016 @10:29PM
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Exactly; without an RF amp you're not going to do any serious damage.
Re:How to Build Your Own Rogue GSM BTS for Fun and Profit
by danellis on Saturday April 02, 2016 @11:33PM
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You'd think people would have gathered that from the fact that the entire RF device is USB bus powered.
Re:How to Build Your Own Rogue GSM BTS for Fun and Profit
by xkcd-sucks on Saturday April 02, 2016 @11:45PM
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"hacker" news
The barrier to entry for this implementation is a little over $600 USD. If someone brought this solution online in their apartment in midtown Manhattan NYC, they would potentially affect hundreds, if not thousands of devices.
Someone who is deploying an OpenBTS in the middle of the desert probably already has a good understanding of their existing RF environment.
I'm willing to bet that just about everyone participating here lives in an RF rich environment where if they brought solution online, it would impact someone.