26 Feb
2010
26 Feb
'10
8:23 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 08:50:54PM +0100, Karsten Nohl wrote:
Sorry, the phones have no idea about this, as the current MSN number is an
attribute of the core GSM network.
You can only collect this information in the core network by means of some
form of access to the SS7 roming network (GSM MAP).
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- Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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"Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option."
(ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)
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?