Thanks! So, you're saying making an IMEI sniffer would not be easy?
Seems like it'd be easier to get just the IMEI numbers from all phones
in range than getting voice from just one.
Ben
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:36 AM, mad <mad(a)auth.se> wrote:
Hi Ben!
Anyone?
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:41 AM, <miprom68(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Can someone help with these?
1) With the GSM debugger phone, how difficult is it to get only IMEI
numbers
> of received packets?
First of all, it's unclear what exactly you mean by "the GSM debugger
phone" as osmocom-bb is primary an implementation of a gsm stack like it's found
in any standard cell phone. There is a debug output via gsmtap to e.g. wireshark where you
see all received and send frames to/from your osmocom-bb.
Inherent to its hardware and open source approach it's possible to get it to dump
frames received, independent of normal gsm operation. To do that at the moment it's
necessary to do some work of your own, based on existing branches.
I will try to answer your questions based on what's theoretically possible.
The IMEI is not send very often in conversations between phone and network, in fact the
operator configures when (and if) it's requested from the phone. Practically some
operators request it when doing an authentication request, others only when a location
update using an IMSI happened. And I've never seen it transmitted in the clear, only
after encryption started. So answering your question: Very difficult, exept you know the
key, e.g. on your own phone and receive at the right moment.
2) Can
the debugger phone report the signal strength of received packets?
If
> not, is it possible?
Yes, the gsmtap output contains the signal strength on every frame.
> 3) Is there any way with mods to get I/Q out
of the DSP?
I'm not sure, I think Sylvain knows more about that.
> 4) Is there any work going on to make a CDMA
debugger phone?
As osmocom-bb is (yet) an explicit GSM stack, no. And I've not heard of approaches to
do so
> 5) Are there any GSM phones that have an
option to force calls to be made
> only on 3G/4G?
GSM phones are not capable to use 3G/4G networks. Certainly you mean 3G/4G phones and
disallowing 2G/GSM fallback. I've not seen that in featurephones yet (but some may
allow that) but I heard it's possible on jailbreaked iphones. You should find
something by searching about that.
Regards,
Mad