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Karsten Nohl nohl at virginia.eduHi Yanis, I'm CCing the OsmoconBB list who could perhaps help setup a MSC-GPS data collector. On Feb 22, 2010, at 8:09 PM, Yanis Pavlidis wrote: > Hi all, > > not exactly related to airprobe itself, but I am sure people on this > list could answer my question. > So, after reading Tobias Engels' presentation on 25c3 ( http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/Fahrplan/attachments/1262_25c3-locating-mobile-phones.pdf > ), I found out you can perform an HLR lookup and come up with the > current MSC number that "controls" the connection of the subscriber, > for any subscriber. Yes, every telco company and VoIP provider with SS7 access in the world always knows where you are. Scary. > My question is, is this MSC number, visible from the mobile phone > side? If yes, somebody could actually wardrive, to get the MSC > number-to-location mapping? > Can airprobe, or OpenBTS help? Creating the {MSC -> location} mapping database would be a very worthwhile exercise. The data collection would have to happen from phones. Either we create an application for one of the popular phone platforms (Symbian, Android, iPhone). Anybody on the list knows if these phones expose the MSC number to application software? Alternative, the Osmocon project could probably expose the MSC information easily. The project is still in early stages and it will take a few months until a collector software could be running. I wonder if any of the supported Motorola phones have GPS? > Forgive my ignorance on all-things-gsm, I am just beginning exploring! Thanks for bringing up the topic! > Thanks all, > Yanis Cheers, -Karsten