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fdb on Aug 1, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls

This reminds me of OpenBTS, the project to create an open-source GSM interface. A full dev kit costs about $2000.

http://openbts.sourceforge.net/

They've been using this system at Burning Man to operate a free experimental cell network:

http://pagalegba2010.wikispaces.com/PublicInformation

noahlt on Aug 1, 2010 [–]

The guy who gave this talk, Chris Paget, actually used OpenBTS in his demo.

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