- <title>Visualizing GSM radio chatter using gr-gsm and Hopglass</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Visualizing_GSM_radio_chatter_using_gr_gsm_and_Hopglass.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Every mobile phone announce its existence over radio to the nearby
-mobile cell towers. And this radio chatter is available for anyone
-with a radio receiver capable of receiving them. Details about the
-mobile phones with very good accuracy is of course collected by the
-phone companies, but this is not the topic of this blog post. The
-mobile phone radio chatter make it possible to figure out when a cell
-phone is nearby, as it include the SIM card ID (IMSI). By paying
-attention over time, one can see when a phone arrive and when it leave
-an area. I believe it would be nice to make this information more
-available to the general public, to make more people aware of how
-their phones are announcing their whereabouts to anyone that care to
-listen.</p>
-
-<p>I am very happy to report that we managed to get something
-visualizing this information up and running for
-<a href="http://norwaymakers.org/osf17">Oslo Skaperfestival 2017</a>
-(Oslo Makers Festival) taking place today and tomorrow at Deichmanske
-library. The solution is based on the
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Easier_recipe_to_observe_the_cell_phones_around_you.html">simple
-recipe for listening to GSM chatter</a> I posted a few days ago, and
-will show up at the stand of <a href="http://sonen.ifi.uio.no/">Åpen
-Sone from the Computer Science department of the University of
-Oslo</a>. The presentation will show the nearby mobile phones (aka
-IMSIs) as dots in a web browser graph, with lines to the dot
-representing mobile base station it is talking to. It was working in
-the lab yesterday, and was moved into place this morning.</p>
-
-<p>We set up a fairly powerful desktop machine using Debian
-Buster/Testing with several (five, I believe) RTL2838 DVB-T receivers
-connected and visualize the visible cell phone towers using an
-<a href="https://github.com/marlow925/hopglass">English version of
-Hopglass</a>. A fairly powerfull machine is needed as the
-grgsm_livemon_headless processes from
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gr-gsm">gr-gsm</a> converting
-the radio signal to data packages is quite CPU intensive.</p>
-
-<p>The frequencies to listen to, are identified using a slightly
-patched scan-and-livemon (to set the --args values for each receiver),
-and the Hopglass data is generated using the
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/IMSI-catcher/tree/meshviewer-output">patches
-in my meshviewer-output branch</a>. For some reason we could not get
-more than four SDRs working. There is also a geographical map trying
-to show the location of the base stations, but I believe their
-coordinates are hardcoded to some random location in Germany, I
-believe. The code should be replaced with code to look up location in
-a text file, a sqlite database or one of the online databases
-mentioned in
-<a href="https://github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher/issues/14">the github
-issue for the topic</a>.
-
-<p>If this sound interesting, visit the stand at the festival!</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Easier recipe to observe the cell phones around you</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Easier_recipe_to_observe_the_cell_phones_around_you.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2017 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>A little more than a month ago I wrote
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Simpler_recipe_on_how_to_make_a_simple__7_IMSI_Catcher_using_Debian.html">how
-to observe the SIM card ID (aka IMSI number) of mobile phones talking
-to nearby mobile phone base stations using Debian GNU/Linux and a
-cheap USB software defined radio</a>, and thus being able to pinpoint
-the location of people and equipment (like cars and trains) with an
-accuracy of a few kilometer. Since then we have worked to make the
-procedure even simpler, and it is now possible to do this without any
-manual frequency tuning and without building your own packages.</p>
-
-<p>The <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gr-gsm">gr-gsm</a>
-package is now included in Debian testing and unstable, and the
-IMSI-catcher code no longer require root access to fetch and decode
-the GSM data collected using gr-gsm.</p>
-
-<p>Here is an updated recipe, using packages built by Debian and a git
-clone of two python scripts:</p>
-
-<ol>
-
-<li>Start with a Debian machine running the Buster version (aka
- testing).</li>
-
-<li>Run '<tt>apt install gr-gsm python-numpy python-scipy
- python-scapy</tt>' as root to install required packages.</li>
-
-<li>Fetch the code decoding GSM packages using '<tt>git clone
- github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher.git</tt>'.</li>
-
-<li>Insert USB software defined radio supported by GNU Radio.</li>
-
-<li>Enter the IMSI-catcher directory and run '<tt>python
- scan-and-livemon</tt>' to locate the frequency of nearby base
- stations and start listening for GSM packages on one of them.</li>
-
-<li>Enter the IMSI-catcher directory and run '<tt>python
- simple_IMSI-catcher.py</tt>' to display the collected information.</li>
-
-</ol>
-
-<p>Note, due to a bug somewhere the scan-and-livemon program (actually
-<a href="https://github.com/ptrkrysik/gr-gsm/issues/336">its underlying
-program grgsm_scanner</a>) do not work with the HackRF radio. It does
-work with RTL 8232 and other similar USB radio receivers you can get
-very cheaply
-(<a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/items/?_nkw=rtl+2832">for example
-from ebay</a>), so for now the solution is to scan using the RTL radio
-and only use HackRF for fetching GSM data.</p>
-
-<p>As far as I can tell, a cell phone only show up on one of the
-frequencies at the time, so if you are going to track and count every
-cell phone around you, you need to listen to all the frequencies used.
-To listen to several frequencies, use the --numrecv argument to
-scan-and-livemon to use several receivers. Further, I am not sure if
-phones using 3G or 4G will show as talking GSM to base stations, so
-this approach might not see all phones around you. I typically see
-0-400 IMSI numbers an hour when looking around where I live.</p>
-
-<p>I've tried to run the scanner on a
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi">Raspberry Pi 2 and 3
-running Debian Buster</a>, but the grgsm_livemon_headless process seem
-to be too CPU intensive to keep up. When GNU Radio print 'O' to
-stdout, I am told there it is caused by a buffer overflow between the
-radio and GNU Radio, caused by the program being unable to read the
-GSM data fast enough. If you see a stream of 'O's from the terminal
-where you started scan-and-livemon, you need a give the process more
-CPU power. Perhaps someone are able to optimize the code to a point
-where it become possible to set up RPi3 based GSM sniffers? I tried
-using Raspbian instead of Debian, but there seem to be something wrong
-with GNU Radio on raspbian, causing glibc to abort().</p>
+ <title>Retten til kontant betaling er en rettighet som må brukes for å beholdes</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Retten_til_kontant_betaling_er_en_rettighet_som_m__brukes_for___beholdes.html</link>
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+ <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p><a href="https://www.fn.no/Om-FN/Avtaler/Menneskerettigheter/FNs-verdenserklaering-om-menneskerettigheter">FNs
+menneskerettighetserklæring</a> artikkel 13 første punkt lyder som
+følger:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+Enhver har rett til å bevege seg fritt og til fritt å velge
+oppholdssted innenfor en stats grenser.
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Det er altså en menneskerett å kunne bevege seg fritt i landet.
+For å bevege seg fritt i landet, så må en kunne bevege seg uten å bli
+sporet. Det vil i dagens samfunn innebære å bevege seg uten å legge
+igjen digitale spor og uten å være radiomerket. Hvis en vet at ens
+bevegelser, hvor en befinner seg når, og hvem som befinner seg i
+nærheten, blir samlet inn og gjort tilgjengelig for fremmede, det være
+seg myndighetene eller private organisasjoner, så kan en ikke lenger
+bevege seg fritt. Dette gjør at det er en forutsetning for å ha glede
+av retten til å bevege seg fritt i landet at en motstår fristelsen til
+å legge igjen digitale spor når en betaler for seg. Rettigheter som
+ikke blir brukt, blit fjernet. Den eneste måten i dag å unngå å legge
+igjen digitale spor når en betaler for seg, er å betale med kontanter,
+samt takke nei til å legge igjen navn og adresse (slik f.eks. Elkjøp
+ber om &mdash; jeg sier de kan legge inn 'anonym anonym' når
+datasystemet deres trenger et navn). Personlig anbefaler jeg å
+konsekvent bruke kontant betaling når man beveger seg rundt, for å
+bidra til forsvaret av menneskerettighetene i Norge. Kanskje noe også
+for deg? Merk at det ikke er tilstrekkelig for å unngå sporing å
+betale med kontanter, men det er et lite steg i riktig retning.</p>
+
+<p>Det er flere andre argumenter i tillegg til
+menneskerettighetsargumentet for å bruke kontanter. I går hadde
+Dagbladet en utmerket kommentar av sin journalist John Olav Egeland om
+hvilket
+<a href="https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/kontantlost-diktatur/70543434">kontantløst
+diktatur</a> som venter oss hvis mange nok slutter å insistere på å
+betale med kontanter. Jeg anbefaler deg å lese den.</p>
+
+<p>Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
+det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
+til min adresse
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.
+Merk, betaling med bitcoin er ikke anonymt. :)</p>