Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
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This is the easiest explanation I could come up with:
Your phone (or other cellular devices) constantly broadcasts a few identifiers. The IMEI, which is tied directly to the cellular hardware in your device, and the IMSI, which is tied to your SIM card. Law enforcement uses so called cell-site simulators, which basically pretend to be cellular antennas, while actually just grabbing IMEIs and IMSIs from every device in the area. This is often used during protests, in order to identify those who attend them.
Rayhunter is a piece of software that detects the presence of cell-site simulators, making attendants of protests aware of the hidden danger.
This is especially important, now that the US basically transformed into an authoritarian state. We've already seen how Trump strategically uses law enforcement to crack down on protests, such as the BLM movement in 2020. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_a63r5Km9I) Being aware of law enforcement/intelligence operations that try to identify and track down protest attendants is more important than ever.
They do this so consistently at protests, the Georgia AG tried to claim it showed criminal intent to not bring your phone to a protest for tracking.
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It needed Xposed framework and worked only on some devices, which are not available anymore.
That explains it. Thanks.
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Whoever designs their logos definitely needs a raise IMO.
I'd buy all the stickers if it didn't cost three times their value just to ship them to me.
I hadn't noticed this until you pointed it out, but yeah, their logos are fire
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Just got mine and getting this error. Would appreciate any support you nerds can give me because I don't have a Github account:
Using adb at ./platform-tools/adb Force a switch into the debug mode to enable ADB /Applications/release/install-common.sh: line 20: ./serial-macos-latest/serial: Bad CPU type in executable -
Just got mine and getting this error. Would appreciate any support you nerds can give me because I don't have a Github account:
Using adb at ./platform-tools/adb Force a switch into the debug mode to enable ADB /Applications/release/install-common.sh: line 20: ./serial-macos-latest/serial: Bad CPU type in executableI think it needs special hardware to run on:
It is developed to run on an Orbic mobile hotspot (Amazon, Ebay) which is available for $20 or less at the time of this writing.
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I think it needs special hardware to run on:
It is developed to run on an Orbic mobile hotspot (Amazon, Ebay) which is available for $20 or less at the time of this writing.
That's what I'm trying to run it on.
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That's what I'm trying to run it on.
Oh, right, you did say "just got mine"... Never mind me. It does seem like it could be a mismatch between what the adb was compiled for and what it's being asked to install on.
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Just got mine and getting this error. Would appreciate any support you nerds can give me because I don't have a Github account:
Using adb at ./platform-tools/adb Force a switch into the debug mode to enable ADB /Applications/release/install-common.sh: line 20: ./serial-macos-latest/serial: Bad CPU type in executableBad CPU type in executable
Do you use an Apple Silicon Mac by any chance?
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Just got mine and getting this error. Would appreciate any support you nerds can give me because I don't have a Github account:
Using adb at ./platform-tools/adb Force a switch into the debug mode to enable ADB /Applications/release/install-common.sh: line 20: ./serial-macos-latest/serial: Bad CPU type in executableFrom what's written here, it appears you have an Intel Mac and the thing has only ARM Mac executable, or the other way around.
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From what's written here, it appears you have an Intel Mac and the thing has only ARM Mac executable, or the other way around.
It didn't mention anything about the CPU in the install instructions...
I guess I'll give it a try on my Linux machine.
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Bad CPU type in executable
Do you use an Apple Silicon Mac by any chance?
It's the other way around, an Apple Silicon Mac would be able to run an intel binary through Rosetta (I think there's almost no exceptions at this point). It's intel macs that can't run Arm specific binaries.
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It's the other way around, an Apple Silicon Mac would be able to run an intel binary through Rosetta (I think there's almost no exceptions at this point). It's intel macs that can't run Arm specific binaries.
You're right, I forgot about that
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It didn't mention anything about the CPU in the install instructions...
I guess I'll give it a try on my Linux machine.
It didn’t mention anything about the CPU in the install instructions…
Try locating the binary that crashes with the "Bad CPU type" exception and run the
filecommand on it. It will show you which architecture the binary was built for.Edit: Linux install was successful
That's good to hear
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Do these work with European bands? Is it worth shipping to Europe?
I honestly don't know
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There used to be an IMSII detector app in F-Droid. No idea what happened to it.
It probably needs some permissions that aren't available in newer Android versions anymore
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