- <title>Simpler recipe on how to make a simple $7 IMSI Catcher using Debian</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Simpler_recipe_on_how_to_make_a_simple__7_IMSI_Catcher_using_Debian.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Wed, 9 Aug 2017 23:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>On friday, I came across an interesting article in the Norwegian
-web based ICT news magazine digi.no on
-<a href="https://www.digi.no/artikler/sikkerhetsforsker-lagde-enkel-imsi-catcher-for-60-kroner-na-kan-mobiler-kartlegges-av-alle/398588">how
-to collect the IMSI numbers of nearby cell phones</a> using the cheap
-DVB-T software defined radios. The article refered to instructions
-and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjwgNd_as30">a recipe by
-Keld Norman on Youtube on how to make a simple $7 IMSI Catcher</a>, and I decided to test them out.</p>
-
-<p>The instructions said to use Ubuntu, install pip using apt (to
-bypass apt), use pip to install pybombs (to bypass both apt and pip),
-and the ask pybombs to fetch and build everything you need from
-scratch. I wanted to see if I could do the same on the most recent
-Debian packages, but this did not work because pybombs tried to build
-stuff that no longer build with the most recent openssl library or
-some other version skew problem. While trying to get this recipe
-working, I learned that the apt->pip->pybombs route was a long detour,
-and the only piece of software dependency missing in Debian was the
-gr-gsm package. I also found out that the lead upstream developer of
-gr-gsm (the name stand for GNU Radio GSM) project already had a set of
-Debian packages provided in an Ubuntu PPA repository. All I needed to
-do was to dget the Debian source package and built it.</p>
-
-<p>The IMSI collector is a python script listening for packages on the
-loopback network device and printing to the terminal some specific GSM
-packages with IMSI numbers in them. The code is fairly short and easy
-to understand. The reason this work is because gr-gsm include a tool
-to read GSM data from a software defined radio like a DVB-T USB stick
-and other software defined radios, decode them and inject them into a
-network device on your Linux machine (using the loopback device by
-default). This proved to work just fine, and I've been testing the
-collector for a few days now.</p>
-
-<p>The updated and simpler recipe is thus to</p>
-
-<ol>
-
-<li>start with a Debian machine running Stretch or newer,</li>
-
-<li>build and install the gr-gsm package available from
-<a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/ptrkrysik/gr-gsm/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gr-gsm/">http://ppa.launchpad.net/ptrkrysik/gr-gsm/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gr-gsm/</a>,</li>
-
-<li>clone the git repostory from <a href="https://github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher">https://github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher</a>,</li>
-
-<li>run grgsm_livemon and adjust the frequency until the terminal
-where it was started is filled with a stream of text (meaning you
-found a GSM station).</li>
-
-<li>go into the IMSI-catcher directory and run 'sudo python simple_IMSI-catcher.py' to extract the IMSI numbers.</li>
-
-</ol>
-
-<p>To make it even easier in the future to get this sniffer up and
-running, I decided to package
-<a href="https://github.com/ptrkrysik/gr-gsm/">the gr-gsm project</a>
-for Debian (<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/871055">WNPP
-#871055</a>), and the package was uploaded into the NEW queue today.
-Luckily the gnuradio maintainer has promised to help me, as I do not
-know much about gnuradio stuff yet.</p>
-
-<p>I doubt this "IMSI cacher" is anywhere near as powerfull as
-commercial tools like
-<a href="https://www.thespyphone.com/portable-imsi-imei-catcher/">The
-Spy Phone Portable IMSI / IMEI Catcher</a> or the
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker">Harris
-Stingray</a>, but I hope the existance of cheap alternatives can make
-more people realise how their whereabouts when carrying a cell phone
-is easily tracked. Seeing the data flow on the screen, realizing that
-I live close to a police station and knowing that the police is also
-wearing cell phones, I wonder how hard it would be for criminals to
-track the position of the police officers to discover when there are
-police near by, or for foreign military forces to track the location
-of the Norwegian military forces, or for anyone to track the location
-of government officials...</p>
-
-<p>It is worth noting that the data reported by the IMSI-catcher
-script mentioned above is only a fraction of the data broadcasted on
-the GSM network. It will only collect one frequency at the time,
-while a typical phone will be using several frequencies, and not all
-phones will be using the frequencies tracked by the grgsm_livemod
-program. Also, there is a lot of radio chatter being ignored by the
-simple_IMSI-catcher script, which would be collected by extending the
-parser code. I wonder if gr-gsm can be set up to listen to more than
-one frequency?</p>
+ <title>Release 0.2 of free software archive system Nikita announced</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_2_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Release_0_2_of_free_software_archive_system_Nikita_announced.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>This morning, the new release of the
+<a href="https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/">Nikita
+Noark 5 core project</a> was
+<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/nikita-noark/2018-October/000406.html">announced
+on the project mailing list</a>. The free software solution is an
+implementation of the Norwegian archive standard Noark 5 used by
+government offices in Norway. These were the changes in version 0.2
+since version 0.1.1 (from NEWS.md):
+
+<ul>
+ <li>Fix typos in REL names</li>
+ <li>Tidy up error message reporting</li>
+ <li>Fix issue where we used Integer.valueOf(), not Integer.getInteger()</li>
+ <li>Change some String handling to StringBuffer</li>
+ <li>Fix error reporting</li>
+ <li>Code tidy-up</li>
+ <li>Fix issue using static non-synchronized SimpleDateFormat to avoid
+ race conditions</li>
+ <li>Fix problem where deserialisers were treating integers as strings</li>
+ <li>Update methods to make them null-safe</li>
+ <li>Fix many issues reported by coverity</li>
+ <li>Improve equals(), compareTo() and hash() in domain model</li>
+ <li>Improvements to the domain model for metadata classes</li>
+ <li>Fix CORS issues when downloading document</li>
+ <li>Implementation of case-handling with registryEntry and document upload</li>
+ <li>Better support in Javascript for OPTIONS</li>
+ <li>Adding concept description of mail integration</li>
+ <li>Improve setting of default values for GET on ny-journalpost</li>
+ <li>Better handling of required values during deserialisation </li>
+ <li>Changed tilknyttetDato (M620) from date to dateTime</li>
+ <li>Corrected some opprettetDato (M600) (de)serialisation errors.</li>
+ <li>Improve parse error reporting.</li>
+ <li>Started on OData search and filtering.</li>
+ <li>Added Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct to project.</li>
+ <li>Moved repository and project from Github to Gitlab.</li>
+ <li>Restructured repository, moved code into src/ and web/.</li>
+ <li>Updated code to use Spring Boot version 2.</li>
+ <li>Added support for OAuth2 authentication.</li>
+ <li>Fixed several bugs discovered by Coverity.</li>
+ <li>Corrected handling of date/datetime fields.</li>
+ <li>Improved error reporting when rejecting during deserializatoin.</li>
+ <li>Adjusted default values provided for ny-arkivdel, ny-mappe,
+ ny-saksmappe, ny-journalpost and ny-dokumentbeskrivelse.</li>
+ <li>Several fixes for korrespondansepart*.</li>
+ <li>Updated web GUI:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Now handle both file upload and download.</li>
+ <li>Uses new OAuth2 authentication for login.</li>
+ <li>Forms now fetches default values from API using GET.</li>
+ <li>Added RFC 822 (email), TIFF and JPEG to list of possible file formats.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The changes and improvements are extensive. Running diffstat on
+the changes between git tab 0.1.1 and 0.2 show 1098 files changed,
+108666 insertions(+), 54066 deletions(-).</p>
+
+<p>If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to
+you, please contact us on IRC
+(<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nikita">#nikita on
+irc.freenode.net</a>) or email
+(<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark">nikita-noark
+mailing list</a>).</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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