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23 <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_notes_on_fault_tolerant_storage_systems.html">Some notes on fault tolerant storage systems</a></div>
24 <div class="date"> 1st November 2017</div>
25 <div class="body"><p>If you care about how fault tolerant your storage is, you might
26 find these articles and papers interesting. They have formed how I
27 think of when designing a storage system.</p>
28
29 <ul>
30
31 <li>USENIX :login; <a
32 href="https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/summer2017/ganesan">Redundancy
33 Does Not Imply Fault Tolerance. Analysis of Distributed Storage
34 Reactions to Single Errors and Corruptions</a> by Aishwarya Ganesan,
35 Ramnatthan Alagappan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi
36 H. Arpaci-Dusseau</li>
37
38 <li>ZDNet
39 <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/">Why
40 RAID 5 stops working in 2009</a> by Robin Harris</li>
41
42 <li>ZDNet
43 <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-6-stops-working-in-2019/">Why
44 RAID 6 stops working in 2019</a> by Robin Harris</li>
45
46 <li>USENIX FAST'07
47 <a href="http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf">Failure
48 Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population</a> by Eduardo Pinheiro,
49 Wolf-Dietrich Weber and Luiz André Barroso</li>
50
51 <li>USENIX ;login: <a
52 href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/hughes12-04.pdf">Data
53 Integrity. Finding Truth in a World of Guesses and Lies</a> by Doug
54 Hughes</li>
55
56 <li>USENIX FAST'08
57 <a href="https://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/tech/full_papers/bairavasundaram/bairavasundaram_html/">An
58 cAnalysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack</a> -
59 L. N. Bairavasundaram, G. R. Goodson, B. Schroeder, A. C.
60 Arpaci-Dusseau, and R. H. Arpaci-Dusseau</li>
61
62 <li>USENIX FAST'07 <a
63 href="https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder_html/">Disk
64 failures in the real world: what does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean
65 to you?</a> by B. Schroeder and G. A. Gibson.</li>
66
67 <li>USENIX ;login: <a
68 href="https://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/tech/full_papers/jiang/jiang_html/">Are
69 Disks the Dominant Contributor for Storage Failures? A Comprehensive
70 Study of Storage Subsystem Failure Characteristics</a> by Weihang
71 Jiang, Chongfeng Hu, Yuanyuan Zhou, and Arkady Kanevsky</li>
72
73 <li>SIGMETRICS 2007
74 <a href="http://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/latent-sigmetrics07.pdf">An
75 analysis of latent sector errors in disk drives</a> -
76 L. N. Bairavasundaram, G. R. Goodson, S. Pasupathy, and J. Schindler</li>
77
78 </ul>
79
80 <p>Several of these research papers are based on data collected from
81 hundred thousands or millions of disk, and their findings are eye
82 opening. The short story is simply do not implicitly trust RAID or
83 redundant storage systems. Details matter. And unfortunately there
84 are few options on Linux addressing all the identified issues. Both
85 ZFS and Btrfs are doing a fairly good job, but have legal and
86 practical issues on their own. I wonder how cluster file systems like
87 Ceph do in this regard.</p>
88
89 <p>Just remember, in the end, it do not matter how redundant, or how
90 fault tolerant your storage is, if you do not continuously monitor its
91 status to detect and replace failed disks.</p>
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96 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/raid">raid</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin</a>.
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103 <div class="entry">
104 <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_services_for_writing_academic_LaTeX_papers_as_a_team.html">Web services for writing academic LaTeX papers as a team</a></div>
105 <div class="date">31st October 2017</div>
106 <div class="body"><p>I was surprised today to learn that a friend in academia did not
107 know there are easily available web services available for writing
108 LaTeX documents as a team. I thought it was common knowledge, but to
109 make sure at least my readers are aware of it, I would like to mention
110 these useful services for writing LaTeX documents. Some of them even
111 provide a WYSIWYG editor to ease writing even further.</p>
112
113 <p>There are two commercial services available,
114 <a href="https://sharelatex.com">ShareLaTeX</a> and
115 <a href="https://overleaf.com">Overleaf</a>. They are very easy to
116 use. Just start a new document, select which publisher to write for
117 (ie which LaTeX style to use), and start writing. Note, these two
118 have announced their intention to join forces, so soon it will only be
119 one joint service. I've used both for different documents, and they
120 work just fine. While
121 <a href="https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex">ShareLaTeX is free
122 software</a>, while the latter is not. According to <a
123 href="https://www.overleaf.com/help/17-is-overleaf-open-source">a
124 announcement from Overleaf</a>, they plan to keep the ShareLaTeX code
125 base maintained as free software.</p>
126
127 But these two are not the only alternatives.
128 <a href="https://app.fiduswriter.org/">Fidus Writer</a> is another free
129 software solution with <a href="https://github.com/fiduswriter">the
130 source available on github</a>. I have not used it myself. Several
131 others can be found on the nice
132 <a href="https://alternativeto.net/software/sharelatex/">alterntiveTo
133 web service</a>.
134
135 <p>If you like Google Docs or Etherpad, but would like to write
136 documents in LaTeX, you should check out these services. You can even
137 host your own, if you want to. :)</p>
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139 </div>
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142
143 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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151 <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Locating_IMDB_IDs_of_movies_in_the_Internet_Archive_using_Wikidata.html">Locating IMDB IDs of movies in the Internet Archive using Wikidata</a></div>
152 <div class="date">25th October 2017</div>
153 <div class="body"><p>Recently, I needed to automatically check the copyright status of a
154 set of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/">The Internet Movie database
155 (IMDB)</a> entries, to figure out which one of the movies they refer
156 to can be freely distributed on the Internet. This proved to be
157 harder than it sounds. IMDB for sure list movies without any
158 copyright protection, where the copyright protection has expired or
159 where the movie is lisenced using a permissive license like one from
160 Creative Commons. These are mixed with copyright protected movies,
161 and there seem to be no way to separate these classes of movies using
162 the information in IMDB.</p>
163
164 <p>First I tried to look up entries manually in IMDB,
165 <a href="https://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a> and
166 <a href="https://www.archive.org/">The Internet Archive</a>, to get a
167 feel how to do this. It is hard to know for sure using these sources,
168 but it should be possible to be reasonable confident a movie is "out
169 of copyright" with a few hours work per movie. As I needed to check
170 almost 20,000 entries, this approach was not sustainable. I simply
171 can not work around the clock for about 6 years to check this data
172 set.</p>
173
174 <p>I asked the people behind The Internet Archive if they could
175 introduce a new metadata field in their metadata XML for IMDB ID, but
176 was told that they leave it completely to the uploaders to update the
177 metadata. Some of the metadata entries had IMDB links in the
178 description, but I found no way to download all metadata files in bulk
179 to locate those ones and put that approach aside.</p>
180
181 <p>In the process I noticed several Wikipedia articles about movies
182 had links to both IMDB and The Internet Archive, and it occured to me
183 that I could use the Wikipedia RDF data set to locate entries with
184 both, to at least get a lower bound on the number of movies on The
185 Internet Archive with a IMDB ID. This is useful based on the
186 assumption that movies distributed by The Internet Archive can be
187 legally distributed on the Internet. With some help from the RDF
188 community (thank you DanC), I was able to come up with this query to
189 pass to <a href="https://query.wikidata.org/">the SPARQL interface on
190 Wikidata</a>:
191
192 <p><pre>
193 SELECT ?work ?imdb ?ia ?when ?label
194 WHERE
195 {
196 ?work wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q11424.
197 ?work wdt:P345 ?imdb.
198 ?work wdt:P724 ?ia.
199 OPTIONAL {
200 ?work wdt:P577 ?when.
201 ?work rdfs:label ?label.
202 FILTER(LANG(?label) = "en").
203 }
204 }
205 </pre></p>
206
207 <p>If I understand the query right, for every film entry anywhere in
208 Wikpedia, it will return the IMDB ID and The Internet Archive ID, and
209 when the movie was released and its English title, if either or both
210 of the latter two are available. At the moment the result set contain
211 2338 entries. Of course, it depend on volunteers including both
212 correct IMDB and The Internet Archive IDs in the wikipedia articles
213 for the movie. It should be noted that the result will include
214 duplicates if the movie have entries in several languages. There are
215 some bogus entries, either because The Internet Archive ID contain a
216 typo or because the movie is not available from The Internet Archive.
217 I did not verify the IMDB IDs, as I am unsure how to do that
218 automatically.</p>
219
220 <p>I wrote a small python script to extract the data set from Wikidata
221 and check if the XML metadata for the movie is available from The
222 Internet Archive, and after around 1.5 hour it produced a list of 2097
223 free movies and their IMDB ID. In total, 171 entries in Wikidata lack
224 the refered Internet Archive entry. I assume the 70 "disappearing"
225 entries (ie 2338-2097-171) are duplicate entries.</p>
226
227 <p>This is not too bad, given that The Internet Archive report to
228 contain <a href="https://archive.org/details/feature_films">5331
229 feature films</a> at the moment, but it also mean more than 3000
230 movies are missing on Wikipedia or are missing the pair of references
231 on Wikipedia.</p>
232
233 <p>I was curious about the distribution by release year, and made a
234 little graph to show how the amount of free movies is spread over the
235 years:<p>
236
237 <p><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-10-25-verk-i-det-fri-filmer.png"></p>
238
239 <p>I expect the relative distribution of the remaining 3000 movies to
240 be similar.</p>
241
242 <p>If you want to help, and want to ensure Wikipedia can be used to
243 cross reference The Internet Archive and The Internet Movie Database,
244 please make sure entries like this are listed under the "External
245 links" heading on the Wikipedia article for the movie:</p>
246
247 <p><pre>
248 * {{Internet Archive film|id=FightingLady}}
249 * {{IMDb title|id=0036823|title=The Fighting Lady}}
250 </pre></p>
251
252 <p>Please verify the links on the final page, to make sure you did not
253 introduce a typo.</p>
254
255 <p>Here is the complete list, if you want to correct the 171
256 identified Wikipedia entries with broken links to The Internet
257 Archive: <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1140317">Q1140317</a>,
258 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q458656">Q458656</a>,
259 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q458656">Q458656</a>,
260 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q470560">Q470560</a>,
261 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q743340">Q743340</a>,
262 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q822580">Q822580</a>,
263 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q480696">Q480696</a>,
264 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q128761">Q128761</a>,
265 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1307059">Q1307059</a>,
266 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1335091">Q1335091</a>,
267 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1537166">Q1537166</a>,
268 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1438334">Q1438334</a>,
269 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1479751">Q1479751</a>,
270 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1497200">Q1497200</a>,
271 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1498122">Q1498122</a>,
272 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q865973">Q865973</a>,
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428 </div>
429 <div class="tags">
430
431
432 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>.
433
434
435 </div>
436 </div>
437 <div class="padding"></div>
438
439 <div class="entry">
440 <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_one_way_wall_on_the_border_.html">A one-way wall on the border?</a></div>
441 <div class="date">14th October 2017</div>
442 <div class="body"><p>I find it fascinating how many of the people being locked inside
443 the proposed border wall between USA and Mexico support the idea. The
444 proposal to keep Mexicans out reminds me of
445 <a href="http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-berlin-wall">the
446 propaganda twist from the East Germany government</a> calling the wall
447 the ā€œAntifascist Bulwarkā€ after erecting the Berlin Wall, claiming
448 that the wall was erected to keep enemies from creeping into East
449 Germany, while it was obvious to the people locked inside it that it
450 was erected to keep the people from escaping.</p>
451
452 <p>Do the people in USA supporting this wall really believe it is a
453 one way wall, only keeping people on the outside from getting in,
454 while not keeping people in the inside from getting out?</p>
455 </div>
456 <div class="tags">
457
458
459 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
460
461
462 </div>
463 </div>
464 <div class="padding"></div>
465
466 <div class="entry">
467 <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Generating_3D_prints_in_Debian_using_Cura_and_Slic3r__prusa_.html">Generating 3D prints in Debian using Cura and Slic3r(-prusa)</a></div>
468 <div class="date"> 9th October 2017</div>
469 <div class="body"><p>At my nearby maker space,
470 <a href="http://sonen.ifi.uio.no/">Sonen</a>, I heard the story that it
471 was easier to generate gcode files for theyr 3D printers (Ultimake 2+)
472 on Windows and MacOS X than Linux, because the software involved had
473 to be manually compiled and set up on Linux while premade packages
474 worked out of the box on Windows and MacOS X. I found this annoying,
475 as the software involved,
476 <a href="https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura">Cura</a>, is free software
477 and should be trivial to get up and running on Linux if someone took
478 the time to package it for the relevant distributions. I even found
479 <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/706656">a request for adding into
480 Debian</a> from 2013, which had seem some activity over the years but
481 never resulted in the software showing up in Debian. So a few days
482 ago I offered my help to try to improve the situation.</p>
483
484 <p>Now I am very happy to see that all the packages required by a
485 working Cura in Debian are uploaded into Debian and waiting in the NEW
486 queue for the ftpmasters to have a look. You can track the progress
487 on
488 <a href="https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=3dprinter-general%40lists.alioth.debian.org">the
489 status page for the 3D printer team</a>.</p>
490
491 <p>The uploaded packages are a bit behind upstream, and was uploaded
492 now to get slots in <a href="https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html">the NEW
493 queue</a> while we work up updating the packages to the latest
494 upstream version.</p>
495
496 <p>On a related note, two competitors for Cura, which I found harder
497 to use and was unable to configure correctly for Ultimaker 2+ in the
498 short time I spent on it, are already in Debian. If you are looking
499 for 3D printer "slicers" and want something already available in
500 Debian, check out
501 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/slic3r">slic3r</a> and
502 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/slic3r-prusa">slic3r-prusa</a>.
503 The latter is a fork of the former.</p>
504 </div>
505 <div class="tags">
506
507
508 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
509
510
511 </div>
512 </div>
513 <div class="padding"></div>
514
515 <div class="entry">
516 <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mangler_du_en_skrue__eller_har_du_en_skrue_l_s_.html">Mangler du en skrue, eller har du en skrue lĆøs?</a></div>
517 <div class="date"> 4th October 2017</div>
518 <div class="body">NƄr jeg holder pƄ med ulike prosjekter, sƄ trenger jeg stadig ulike
519 skruer. Det siste prosjektet jeg holder pƄ med er Ƅ lage
520 <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:676916">en boks til en
521 HDMI-touch-skjerm</a> som skal brukes med Raspberry Pi. Boksen settes
522 sammen med skruer og bolter, og jeg har vƦrt i tvil om hvor jeg kan
523 fƄ tak i de riktige skruene. Clas Ohlson og Jernia i nƦrheten har
524 sjelden hatt det jeg trenger. Men her om dagen fikk jeg et fantastisk
525 tips for oss som bor i Oslo.
526 <a href="http://www.zachskruer.no/">Zachariassen Jernvare AS</a> i
527 <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=59.93421&mlon=10.76795#map=19/59.93421/10.76795">Hegermannsgate
528 23A pƄ Torshov</a> har et fantastisk utvalg, og Ƅpent mellom 09:00 og
529 17:00. De selger skruer, muttere, bolter, skiver etc i lĆøs vekt, og
530 sƄ langt har jeg fƄtt alt jeg har lett etter. De har i tillegg det
531 meste av annen jernvare, som verktĆøy, lamper, ledninger, etc. Jeg
532 hƄper de har nok kunder til Ƅ holde det gƄende lenge, da dette er en
533 butikk jeg kommer til Ć„ besĆøke ofte. Butikken er et funn Ć„ ha i
534 nabolaget for oss som liker Ć„ bygge litt selv. :)</p>
535 </div>
536 <div class="tags">
537
538
539 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
540
541
542 </div>
543 </div>
544 <div class="padding"></div>
545
546 <div class="entry">
547 <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Visualizing_GSM_radio_chatter_using_gr_gsm_and_Hopglass.html">Visualizing GSM radio chatter using gr-gsm and Hopglass</a></div>
548 <div class="date">29th September 2017</div>
549 <div class="body"><p>Every mobile phone announce its existence over radio to the nearby
550 mobile cell towers. And this radio chatter is available for anyone
551 with a radio receiver capable of receiving them. Details about the
552 mobile phones with very good accuracy is of course collected by the
553 phone companies, but this is not the topic of this blog post. The
554 mobile phone radio chatter make it possible to figure out when a cell
555 phone is nearby, as it include the SIM card ID (IMSI). By paying
556 attention over time, one can see when a phone arrive and when it leave
557 an area. I believe it would be nice to make this information more
558 available to the general public, to make more people aware of how
559 their phones are announcing their whereabouts to anyone that care to
560 listen.</p>
561
562 <p>I am very happy to report that we managed to get something
563 visualizing this information up and running for
564 <a href="http://norwaymakers.org/osf17">Oslo Skaperfestival 2017</a>
565 (Oslo Makers Festival) taking place today and tomorrow at Deichmanske
566 library. The solution is based on the
567 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Easier_recipe_to_observe_the_cell_phones_around_you.html">simple
568 recipe for listening to GSM chatter</a> I posted a few days ago, and
569 will show up at the stand of <a href="http://sonen.ifi.uio.no/">ƅpen
570 Sone from the Computer Science department of the University of
571 Oslo</a>. The presentation will show the nearby mobile phones (aka
572 IMSIs) as dots in a web browser graph, with lines to the dot
573 representing mobile base station it is talking to. It was working in
574 the lab yesterday, and was moved into place this morning.</p>
575
576 <p>We set up a fairly powerful desktop machine using Debian
577 Buster/Testing with several (five, I believe) RTL2838 DVB-T receivers
578 connected and visualize the visible cell phone towers using an
579 <a href="https://github.com/marlow925/hopglass">English version of
580 Hopglass</a>. A fairly powerfull machine is needed as the
581 grgsm_livemon_headless processes from
582 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gr-gsm">gr-gsm</a> converting
583 the radio signal to data packages is quite CPU intensive.</p>
584
585 <p>The frequencies to listen to, are identified using a slightly
586 patched scan-and-livemon (to set the --args values for each receiver),
587 and the Hopglass data is generated using the
588 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/IMSI-catcher/tree/meshviewer-output">patches
589 in my meshviewer-output branch</a>. For some reason we could not get
590 more than four SDRs working. There is also a geographical map trying
591 to show the location of the base stations, but I believe their
592 coordinates are hardcoded to some random location in Germany, I
593 believe. The code should be replaced with code to look up location in
594 a text file, a sqlite database or one of the online databases
595 mentioned in
596 <a href="https://github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher/issues/14">the github
597 issue for the topic</a>.
598
599 <p>If this sound interesting, visit the stand at the festival!</p>
600 </div>
601 <div class="tags">
602
603
604 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
605
606
607 </div>
608 </div>
609 <div class="padding"></div>
610
611 <div class="entry">
612 <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Easier_recipe_to_observe_the_cell_phones_around_you.html">Easier recipe to observe the cell phones around you</a></div>
613 <div class="date">24th September 2017</div>
614 <div class="body"><p>A little more than a month ago I wrote
615 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Simpler_recipe_on_how_to_make_a_simple__7_IMSI_Catcher_using_Debian.html">how
616 to observe the SIM card ID (aka IMSI number) of mobile phones talking
617 to nearby mobile phone base stations using Debian GNU/Linux and a
618 cheap USB software defined radio</a>, and thus being able to pinpoint
619 the location of people and equipment (like cars and trains) with an
620 accuracy of a few kilometer. Since then we have worked to make the
621 procedure even simpler, and it is now possible to do this without any
622 manual frequency tuning and without building your own packages.</p>
623
624 <p>The <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gr-gsm">gr-gsm</a>
625 package is now included in Debian testing and unstable, and the
626 IMSI-catcher code no longer require root access to fetch and decode
627 the GSM data collected using gr-gsm.</p>
628
629 <p>Here is an updated recipe, using packages built by Debian and a git
630 clone of two python scripts:</p>
631
632 <ol>
633
634 <li>Start with a Debian machine running the Buster version (aka
635 testing).</li>
636
637 <li>Run '<tt>apt install gr-gsm python-numpy python-scipy
638 python-scapy</tt>' as root to install required packages.</li>
639
640 <li>Fetch the code decoding GSM packages using '<tt>git clone
641 github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher.git</tt>'.</li>
642
643 <li>Insert USB software defined radio supported by GNU Radio.</li>
644
645 <li>Enter the IMSI-catcher directory and run '<tt>python
646 scan-and-livemon</tt>' to locate the frequency of nearby base
647 stations and start listening for GSM packages on one of them.</li>
648
649 <li>Enter the IMSI-catcher directory and run '<tt>python
650 simple_IMSI-catcher.py</tt>' to display the collected information.</li>
651
652 </ol>
653
654 <p>Note, due to a bug somewhere the scan-and-livemon program (actually
655 <a href="https://github.com/ptrkrysik/gr-gsm/issues/336">its underlying
656 program grgsm_scanner</a>) do not work with the HackRF radio. It does
657 work with RTL 8232 and other similar USB radio receivers you can get
658 very cheaply
659 (<a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/items/?_nkw=rtl+2832">for example
660 from ebay</a>), so for now the solution is to scan using the RTL radio
661 and only use HackRF for fetching GSM data.</p>
662
663 <p>As far as I can tell, a cell phone only show up on one of the
664 frequencies at the time, so if you are going to track and count every
665 cell phone around you, you need to listen to all the frequencies used.
666 To listen to several frequencies, use the --numrecv argument to
667 scan-and-livemon to use several receivers. Further, I am not sure if
668 phones using 3G or 4G will show as talking GSM to base stations, so
669 this approach might not see all phones around you. I typically see
670 0-400 IMSI numbers an hour when looking around where I live.</p>
671
672 <p>I've tried to run the scanner on a
673 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi">Raspberry Pi 2 and 3
674 running Debian Buster</a>, but the grgsm_livemon_headless process seem
675 to be too CPU intensive to keep up. When GNU Radio print 'O' to
676 stdout, I am told there it is caused by a buffer overflow between the
677 radio and GNU Radio, caused by the program being unable to read the
678 GSM data fast enough. If you see a stream of 'O's from the terminal
679 where you started scan-and-livemon, you need a give the process more
680 CPU power. Perhaps someone are able to optimize the code to a point
681 where it become possible to set up RPi3 based GSM sniffers? I tried
682 using Raspbian instead of Debian, but there seem to be something wrong
683 with GNU Radio on raspbian, causing glibc to abort().</p>
684 </div>
685 <div class="tags">
686
687
688 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
689
690
691 </div>
692 </div>
693 <div class="padding"></div>
694
695 <div class="entry">
696 <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Datalagringsdirektivet_kaster_skygger_over_H_yre_og_Arbeiderpartiet.html">Datalagringsdirektivet kaster skygger over HĆøyre og Arbeiderpartiet</a></div>
697 <div class="date"> 7th September 2017</div>
698 <div class="body"><p>For noen dager siden publiserte Jon Wessel-Aas en bloggpost om
699 Ā«<a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?p=1821">Konklusjonen om datalagring som
700 EU-kommisjonen ikke ville at vi skulle fÄ se</a>». Det er en
701 interessant gjennomgang av EU-domstolens syn pƄ snurpenotovervƄkning
702 av befolkningen, som er klar pƄ at det er i strid med
703 EU-lovgivingen.</p>
704
705 <p>Valgkampen gƄr for fullt i Norge, og om noen fƄ dager er siste
706 frist for Ć„ avgi stemme. En ting er sikkert, HĆøyre og Arbeiderpartiet
707 fƄr ikke min stemme
708 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Datalagringsdirektivet_gj_r_at_Oslo_H_yre_og_Arbeiderparti_ikke_f_r_min_stemme_i__r.html">denne
709 gangen heller</a>. Jeg har ikke glemt at de tvang igjennom loven som
710 skulle pÄlegge alle data- og teletjenesteleverandører Ä overvÄke alle
711 sine kunder. En lov som er vedtatt, og aldri opphevet igjen.</p>
712
713 <p>Det er tydelig fra diskusjonen rundt grenseløs digital overvÄkning
714 (eller "Digital Grenseforsvar" som det kalles i Orvellisk nytale) at
715 hverken HĆøyre og Arbeiderpartiet har noen prinsipielle sperrer mot Ć„
716 overvƄke hele befolkningen, og diskusjonen sƄ langt tyder pƄ at flere
717 av de andre partiene heller ikke har det. Mange av
718 <a href="https://data.holderdeord.no/votes/1301946411e">de som stemte
719 for Datalagringsdirektivet i Stortinget</a> (64 fra Arbeiderpartiet,
720 25 fra HĆøyre) er fortsatt aktive og argumenterer fortsatt for Ć„ radere
721 vekk mer av innbyggernes privatsfƦre.</p>
722
723 <p>NƄr myndighetene demonstrerer sin mistillit til folket, tror jeg
724 folket selv bĆør legge litt innsats i Ć„ verne sitt privatliv, ved Ć„ ta
725 i bruk ende-til-ende-kryptert kommunikasjon med sine kjente og kjƦre,
726 og begrense hvor mye privat informasjon som deles med uvedkommende.
727 Det er jo ingenting som tyder pƄ at myndighetene kommer til Ƅ vƦre vƄr
728 privatsfƦre.
729 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_talk_with_your_loved_ones_in_private.html">Det
730 er mange muligheter</a>. Selv har jeg litt sans for
731 <a href="https://ring.cx/">Ring</a>, som er basert pƄ p2p-teknologi
732 uten sentral kontroll, er fri programvare, og stĆøtter meldinger, tale
733 og video. Systemet er tilgjengelig ut av boksen fra
734 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ring">Debian</a> og
735 <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ring">Ubuntu</a>, og det
736 finnes pakker for Android, MacOSX og Windows. Foreløpig er det fÄ
737 brukere med Ring, slik at jeg ogsƄ bruker
738 <a href="https://signal.org/">Signal</a> som nettleserutvidelse.</p>
739 </div>
740 <div class="tags">
741
742
743 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/dld">dld</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg</a>.
744
745
746 </div>
747 </div>
748 <div class="padding"></div>
749
750 <div class="entry">
751 <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Simpler_recipe_on_how_to_make_a_simple__7_IMSI_Catcher_using_Debian.html">Simpler recipe on how to make a simple $7 IMSI Catcher using Debian</a></div>
752 <div class="date"> 9th August 2017</div>
753 <div class="body"><p>On friday, I came across an interesting article in the Norwegian
754 web based ICT news magazine digi.no on
755 <a href="https://www.digi.no/artikler/sikkerhetsforsker-lagde-enkel-imsi-catcher-for-60-kroner-na-kan-mobiler-kartlegges-av-alle/398588">how
756 to collect the IMSI numbers of nearby cell phones</a> using the cheap
757 DVB-T software defined radios. The article refered to instructions
758 and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjwgNd_as30">a recipe by
759 Keld Norman on Youtube on how to make a simple $7 IMSI Catcher</a>, and I decided to test them out.</p>
760
761 <p>The instructions said to use Ubuntu, install pip using apt (to
762 bypass apt), use pip to install pybombs (to bypass both apt and pip),
763 and the ask pybombs to fetch and build everything you need from
764 scratch. I wanted to see if I could do the same on the most recent
765 Debian packages, but this did not work because pybombs tried to build
766 stuff that no longer build with the most recent openssl library or
767 some other version skew problem. While trying to get this recipe
768 working, I learned that the apt->pip->pybombs route was a long detour,
769 and the only piece of software dependency missing in Debian was the
770 gr-gsm package. I also found out that the lead upstream developer of
771 gr-gsm (the name stand for GNU Radio GSM) project already had a set of
772 Debian packages provided in an Ubuntu PPA repository. All I needed to
773 do was to dget the Debian source package and built it.</p>
774
775 <p>The IMSI collector is a python script listening for packages on the
776 loopback network device and printing to the terminal some specific GSM
777 packages with IMSI numbers in them. The code is fairly short and easy
778 to understand. The reason this work is because gr-gsm include a tool
779 to read GSM data from a software defined radio like a DVB-T USB stick
780 and other software defined radios, decode them and inject them into a
781 network device on your Linux machine (using the loopback device by
782 default). This proved to work just fine, and I've been testing the
783 collector for a few days now.</p>
784
785 <p>The updated and simpler recipe is thus to</p>
786
787 <ol>
788
789 <li>start with a Debian machine running Stretch or newer,</li>
790
791 <li>build and install the gr-gsm package available from
792 <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>
793
794 <li>clone the git repostory from <a href="https://github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher">https://github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher</a>,</li>
795
796 <li>run grgsm_livemon and adjust the frequency until the terminal
797 where it was started is filled with a stream of text (meaning you
798 found a GSM station).</li>
799
800 <li>go into the IMSI-catcher directory and run 'sudo python simple_IMSI-catcher.py' to extract the IMSI numbers.</li>
801
802 </ol>
803
804 <p>To make it even easier in the future to get this sniffer up and
805 running, I decided to package
806 <a href="https://github.com/ptrkrysik/gr-gsm/">the gr-gsm project</a>
807 for Debian (<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/871055">WNPP
808 #871055</a>), and the package was uploaded into the NEW queue today.
809 Luckily the gnuradio maintainer has promised to help me, as I do not
810 know much about gnuradio stuff yet.</p>
811
812 <p>I doubt this "IMSI cacher" is anywhere near as powerfull as
813 commercial tools like
814 <a href="https://www.thespyphone.com/portable-imsi-imei-catcher/">The
815 Spy Phone Portable IMSI / IMEI Catcher</a> or the
816 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker">Harris
817 Stingray</a>, but I hope the existance of cheap alternatives can make
818 more people realise how their whereabouts when carrying a cell phone
819 is easily tracked. Seeing the data flow on the screen, realizing that
820 I live close to a police station and knowing that the police is also
821 wearing cell phones, I wonder how hard it would be for criminals to
822 track the position of the police officers to discover when there are
823 police near by, or for foreign military forces to track the location
824 of the Norwegian military forces, or for anyone to track the location
825 of government officials...</p>
826
827 <p>It is worth noting that the data reported by the IMSI-catcher
828 script mentioned above is only a fraction of the data broadcasted on
829 the GSM network. It will only collect one frequency at the time,
830 while a typical phone will be using several frequencies, and not all
831 phones will be using the frequencies tracked by the grgsm_livemod
832 program. Also, there is a lot of radio chatter being ignored by the
833 simple_IMSI-catcher script, which would be collected by extending the
834 parser code. I wonder if gr-gsm can be set up to listen to more than
835 one frequency?</p>
836 </div>
837 <div class="tags">
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840 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
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852 <h2>Archive</h2>
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855 <li>2017
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858 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2017/01/">January (4)</a></li>
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876 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2017/11/">November (1)</a></li>
877
878 </ul></li>
879
880 <li>2016
881 <ul>
882
883 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2016/01/">January (3)</a></li>
884
885 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2016/02/">February (2)</a></li>
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902
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904
905 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2016/12/">December (5)</a></li>
906
907 </ul></li>
908
909 <li>2015
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911
912 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2015/01/">January (7)</a></li>
913
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915
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925
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927
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929
930 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2015/10/">October (9)</a></li>
931
932 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2015/11/">November (6)</a></li>
933
934 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2015/12/">December (3)</a></li>
935
936 </ul></li>
937
938 <li>2014
939 <ul>
940
941 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/01/">January (2)</a></li>
942
943 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/02/">February (3)</a></li>
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945 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/03/">March (8)</a></li>
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950
951 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/06/">June (2)</a></li>
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953 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/07/">July (2)</a></li>
954
955 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/08/">August (2)</a></li>
956
957 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/09/">September (5)</a></li>
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959 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/10/">October (6)</a></li>
960
961 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/11/">November (3)</a></li>
962
963 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/12/">December (5)</a></li>
964
965 </ul></li>
966
967 <li>2013
968 <ul>
969
970 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/01/">January (11)</a></li>
971
972 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/02/">February (9)</a></li>
973
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975
976 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/04/">April (6)</a></li>
977
978 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/05/">May (9)</a></li>
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981
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983
984 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/08/">August (3)</a></li>
985
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987
988 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/10/">October (7)</a></li>
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990 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/11/">November (9)</a></li>
991
992 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/12/">December (3)</a></li>
993
994 </ul></li>
995
996 <li>2012
997 <ul>
998
999 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
1000
1001 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
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1010
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1012
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1014
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1016
1017 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/10/">October (17)</a></li>
1018
1019 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/11/">November (10)</a></li>
1020
1021 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1022
1023 </ul></li>
1024
1025 <li>2011
1026 <ul>
1027
1028 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
1029
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1031
1032 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/03/">March (6)</a></li>
1033
1034 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/04/">April (7)</a></li>
1035
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1037
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1039
1040 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/07/">July (7)</a></li>
1041
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1043
1044 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
1045
1046 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (2)</a></li>
1047
1048 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
1049
1050 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
1051
1052 </ul></li>
1053
1054 <li>2010
1055 <ul>
1056
1057 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
1058
1059 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
1060
1061 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/03/">March (3)</a></li>
1062
1063 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/04/">April (3)</a></li>
1064
1065 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/05/">May (9)</a></li>
1066
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1068
1069 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/07/">July (12)</a></li>
1070
1071 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
1072
1073 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
1074
1075 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
1076
1077 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
1078
1079 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
1080
1081 </ul></li>
1082
1083 <li>2009
1084 <ul>
1085
1086 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
1087
1088 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
1089
1090 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/03/">March (12)</a></li>
1091
1092 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/04/">April (10)</a></li>
1093
1094 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/05/">May (9)</a></li>
1095
1096 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/06/">June (3)</a></li>
1097
1098 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
1099
1100 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
1101
1102 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
1103
1104 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
1105
1106 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
1107
1108 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
1109
1110 </ul></li>
1111
1112 <li>2008
1113 <ul>
1114
1115 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
1116
1117 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1118
1119 </ul></li>
1120
1121 </ul>
1122
1123
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