interesting talk. unfortunately, none of the links or offered info was in the text article associated with the video. I wouldn't mind putting together something like this to monitor for local emergency comms.
-eric On Aug 30, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > Sadly security through obscurity is still prevalent in government systems, > and this is a backward way of trying to enforce that. > > Here's a good primer on the 4.9ghz wireless spectrum and accessing it. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjsXzFRJfT8&spfreload=10 > > Most 5ghz nics *can* access it, but are disallowed from doing so by their > regional encoding. Patches can bypass this as they show, and you can then > sniff safety networks. What you find is things like wep, static keys, simple > lack of security, SSID's like "SCADA" popping up, all sorts of things. > > You can also just go on ebay and find old 4.9ghz kit. > > What to do in response? Threaten anyone that patches their kernel driver to > use a feature. > > Same with cell phones. Years ago I had a palm pre on sprint, and sprint's > crap service made the phone unusable. I wanted it on verizon, so I found > cdma workshop software, reprogrammed the radio band, and got it to connect to > verizon. They refused to provision the phone, and began hinting that what I > was doing was technically illegal after harassing them to make it work for > near a month. I gave up, annoyed with both sprint and verizon. > > Then it made sense to me - what I was doing could also reprogram the > imei/meid on the device, pretending I'm someone else's radio, or their phone > all together. I could have just programmed the meid off an old windoze > phone, but that would have been blatantly illegal, but was almost trivial > once doing the rest that I did. Much of their security presumes you *cannot* > change that number, but you can... > > This is why cdma-based providers (sprint/verizon/cricket) lock bootloaders > explicitly, as anything else compromises the possibility to tinker with the > radio, and clone someone's phone. Only the government can do that. > > Software-defined radios tap into all sorts of possibility sniffing into > insecure protocol traffic previously unexplored due to fcc vendor limitations > in making versatile tunable radios. They're afraid. > > -mb > > > On 08/30/2015 02:19 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: >> gee, what did I say about the government wanting to lock us down? here is >> the first shot across the bow. >> >> -eric >> >> http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2015/august/fcc_proposes_ban_on_sdr_radios_and_more.htm#.VeNyokuwgy6 >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - >> [email protected] >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
