How to Build Your Own Rogue GSM BTS for Fun and Profit

Re:How to Build Your Own Rogue GSM BTS for Fun and Profit by mindslight on Saturday April 02, 2016 @11:50PM (#11414844)

Ah crap the timing could indeed be a fundamental problem. Proxying a SIM card is just a recent idea I've been kicking around. Alternatively a privacy-friendly VMVNO could just send a new SIM every (week,month,etc). Once the concept was proven (with non-fixed IMEI etc), I'm imagining a commercial demand would spring up in short order. There's no reason a SIM card must be treacherous hardware.

Obviously a small or singular mix group can be worse than no psuedonymity at all, but the idea would be to go for wider adoption. If I actually wanted to privately engage in illegal activity, I'd just buy burner phones and use the appropriate opsec. Really I just want to enable privacy for all of us who don't have something to hide.

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Re:How to Build Your Own Rogue GSM BTS for Fun and Profit by acgh213 on Sunday April 03, 2016 @02:31AM (#11415175)

I remember being in Ireland last summer and seeing right off the plane a vending machine of burnable sim cards.

The market doesn't exist in the US yet, but Europe seems to be somewhat accustomed to it.

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Re:How to Build Your Own Rogue GSM BTS for Fun and Profit by bogomipz on Monday April 04, 2016 @05:48AM (#11420523)

Even though it sounds like its not feasible could you explain the concept of "sim proxying"? I am curious. Thanks!

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