Stingray, the fake cell phone tower

Re:Stingray, the fake cell phone tower by jbuzbee on Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:54PM (#8094895)

Interesting... Nice that IOS gives you a warning. I wonder if Android does the same?

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Re:Stingray, the fake cell phone tower by chmars on Monday July 28, 2014 @06:47AM (#8096015)

It's called 'Ciphering Indication Feature' – and can be suppressed on the network side … so you can assume that an IMSI catcher ('Stingray') will not let your mobile know that it is using no or weak encryption.

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Re:Stingray, the fake cell phone tower by BuildTheRobots on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @11:15AM (#8102615)

It's actually a bit set on the SIM card, nothing to do with the network. Check out GSM 11.11, 10.3.18

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Re:Stingray, the fake cell phone tower by chmars on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @02:14PM (#8103862)

Thanks, you are of course right. I should have written network operator. The operator can turn on/off OFM on the SIM.

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Re:Stingray, the fake cell phone tower by BuildTheRobots on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @02:17PM (#8103887)

Technically yes, but if you're talking about a stingray then I don't think they're going to have the ability to alter your sim card without authenticating with it; which is a lot harder than just using a null cipher over the air.

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Re:Stingray, the fake cell phone tower by tmosleyIII on Sunday July 27, 2014 @11:48PM (#8095069)

That doesn't actually happen

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