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That is exactly the reason why we keep this porject as open-source as possible, have a disclaimer for it which basically tells YOU to be responsible what you do with the code and most importantly, we are on NO STORE, especially not GooglePlay. If an App moves to GooglePlay and does something that not plays by the rediculous "rules" (serach for what happened to the awesome HushSMS), they're kicked.

If any store, then F-Droid. But for now, why not just grab the most recent compiled WIP-Release from here and give it a shot? https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/rel...

Also, as much as I appreciate your comment just to find this thread later on, this is NOT the official discussion of the App. I HIGHLY recommend just starring the GitHub and (if you have balls) contribute to it's success by submitting pull requests. Thanks for listening, spread the link to the GitHub in all social media and places where potential developers and good Hackers hang out! ;-)

I don't think so. As a matter of fact, the Issue of not having a ciphering indicator within Android has been filed on December 10, 2009! But see for yourself: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5353

Thank you, much appreciated.

Of course law enforcements won't like the Project. Of course there will always be people in this world who think they can do whatever they want, when they want it and kill people using fully automated drones with IMSI-Catchers on board. But why should we think we "can't do anything"? We are the people, we have RIGHTS! So grab your balls and contribute! Oh, and for the shy ones, here's the disclaimer: https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/blo...

How will they outlaw an open-source project? They can "outlaw" all they want, they're already doing what they want, when they want it. It's time for the brave people out there to fight back! Have some balls and stand against the massive abuse of your most private data!

I'm just going to quote the GitHub README here: "Although A5/3 withstands passive eavesdropping, it can be bypassed by deploying an IMSI-Catcher which can force a mobile device into 2G mode and downgrade then the encryption to A5/1 or disable it."

Here is the best hint I can give you: LEAVE YOUR PHOEN AT HOME when you really have to participate in demonstrations! The main reason why the use of IMSI-Catchers, Stingrays and alike is such a popular tactic for law enforcement agencies is because people are not SMART ENOUGH to think ahaed and leave their phones at home!

No solution for you? Well then, at the very least make yourself your own signal blocking pouch to fully block all Silent SMS: www.killyourphone.com

This entirely depends on peoples contributions on GitHub.

Well, the development roadmap is just what it says: A roadmap. Essentially this shall be one, unified App in the final end. And that is exactly the reason why it's open source: Your contributions shall help the project evolve and add all these things.

Sadly, this Project is not yet officially supported by them. But it is one of the GOALS to support FF, Guardian Project and Privacy International. Not necessarily the other way around. :)

Hello, everyone! Since Google does not seem to be interested in fixing the huge security hole of not showing a ciphering indicator on Android, it appears as if they get paid (or are forced to) not fix it. For all of you that are sick of getting spied on through IMSI-Catchers, Silent SMS and alike and want to do something about it, here's a great project you should check out: "The Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector" (AIMSICD). It is an Android open-source based project to detect and (hopefully one day) avoid fake base stations (IMSI-Catchers) or other base-stations (mobile antennas) with poor/no encryption.

This project aims to warn users if the ciphering is turned off and also enables several other protection-mechanisms. Since it is under constant development, they are constantly searching for testers and security-enthusiastic developers with balls. Don't be shy, feel free to contribute, in any way you can on GitHub: https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector

Just give up on the human race already, they aren't worth it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-evIyrrjTTY

Free as in Freedom (http://faif.us/) is an oggcast, hosted and presented by Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen Sandler. The discussion includes legal, policy, and many other issues in the Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) world. Occasionally, guests join Bradley and Karen to discuss various topics regarding FLOSS.

You sound like a Free Software zealot and GPLv3 fan, congratulations and welcome to the club!

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/gplv3-lockdown http://faif.us/cast/2014/jun/19/0x47/

Why is your browser paying attention to the design suggestions of website operators? Surely it should only show their content using your preferred design?

Can you please fix this markup? There should be a href on the <a> tag.

<p><a>View examples</a></p>

Ugh, doesn't use progressive enhancement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement

Some of these mistakes are detected by ShellCheck:

http://www.shellcheck.net/

You may want to disable your /tmp directory's files listing.

Well... it could be said we were inspired by them

Google ;) Feel free to check it out! https://github.com/nightsofa/nightsofa

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140224/17054826340/new-s...

http://www.darkside.com.au/snow/ https://mat.boum.org/ https://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/JStylo-Anonymouth

You can do regex based searches of Debian here:

http://codesearch.debian.net/

Where's the code? I see mentions of "open" hardware and software [1,2] but have yet to find any source code.

[1] https://developers.google.com/cardboard/ [2] https://developers.google.com/cardboard/overview

http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/11/17/obscurity/

It really depends on how FLOSS you want to go?

On the software side of things the closest you can get is a phone running OsmocomBB. That only runs on some dumphones and is not useful from a user perspective, it is only for research. For smartphone software, the closest you can get is a phone running Replicant. That still has all the embedded proprietary software; baseband OS, bootloader, wifi/bluetooth/camera firmware etc.

On the hardware side of things, we have no ASICs with libre designs. I think there have been some cases with libre designs but none manufactured in large quantities. There are myriad patents covering various hardware processes, instruction sets, CPU stuff etc. See bunnie's talk about layers of openness and the Novena laptop for more on this.

RMS uses other people's phones, he doesn't have one himself, mainly due to the network side of things though.

If I wasn't able to contribute to the FLOSS I use, I would definitely buy Redhat even if I didn't need their commercial support, simply because they fund a lot of development work on the FLOSS I use.

"open source" definitely refers to libre usage terms:

http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php

The "source" for a bitmap image (PNG/BMP etc) can be a vector image (SVG, PostScript etc) or maybe a multi-layer bitmap image (Gimp, Photoshop etc). The "source" in "open source" refers to that the files that were transformed into the files in question are available under a libre license, not what kind of file format or language they are represented in.