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A comment on Samsung Galaxy Back-door.

Re:Samsung Galaxy Back-door by atulagarwal on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @06:51PM (#7388963)
In my understanding, it needs operator level access to control the modem, or is it also possible to control the model using a MITM like scenario (off the air interception). If the latter is possible, it can become all the worrisome! Any ideas?
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Re:Samsung Galaxy Back-door by mschuster91 on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @07:30PM (#7389132)
Yeah, of course. Calls itself IMSI Catcher (the variant used by police/secret service). You can build one yourself with OsmocomBB and the rest of that open-source GSM network infrastructure stuff.

Voila, there is your operator-level access from the radio side.

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