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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 Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack</a> by
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> by
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. After all, there is an old saying, you know
88 you have a distributed system when the crash of a compyter you have
89 never heard of stops you from getting any work done. The same holds
90 true if fault tolerance do not work.</p>
91
92 <p>Just remember, in the end, it do not matter how redundant, or how
93 fault tolerant your storage is, if you do not continuously monitor its
94 status to detect and replace failed disks.</p>
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99 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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107 <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>
108 <div class="date">31st October 2017</div>
109 <div class="body"><p>I was surprised today to learn that a friend in academia did not
110 know there are easily available web services available for writing
111 LaTeX documents as a team. I thought it was common knowledge, but to
112 make sure at least my readers are aware of it, I would like to mention
113 these useful services for writing LaTeX documents. Some of them even
114 provide a WYSIWYG editor to ease writing even further.</p>
115
116 <p>There are two commercial services available,
117 <a href="https://sharelatex.com">ShareLaTeX</a> and
118 <a href="https://overleaf.com">Overleaf</a>. They are very easy to
119 use. Just start a new document, select which publisher to write for
120 (ie which LaTeX style to use), and start writing. Note, these two
121 have announced their intention to join forces, so soon it will only be
122 one joint service. I've used both for different documents, and they
123 work just fine. While
124 <a href="https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex">ShareLaTeX is free
125 software</a>, while the latter is not. According to <a
126 href="https://www.overleaf.com/help/17-is-overleaf-open-source">a
127 announcement from Overleaf</a>, they plan to keep the ShareLaTeX code
128 base maintained as free software.</p>
129
130 But these two are not the only alternatives.
131 <a href="https://app.fiduswriter.org/">Fidus Writer</a> is another free
132 software solution with <a href="https://github.com/fiduswriter">the
133 source available on github</a>. I have not used it myself. Several
134 others can be found on the nice
135 <a href="https://alternativeto.net/software/sharelatex/">alterntiveTo
136 web service</a>.
137
138 <p>If you like Google Docs or Etherpad, but would like to write
139 documents in LaTeX, you should check out these services. You can even
140 host your own, if you want to. :)</p>
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146 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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154 <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>
155 <div class="date">25th October 2017</div>
156 <div class="body"><p>Recently, I needed to automatically check the copyright status of a
157 set of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/">The Internet Movie database
158 (IMDB)</a> entries, to figure out which one of the movies they refer
159 to can be freely distributed on the Internet. This proved to be
160 harder than it sounds. IMDB for sure list movies without any
161 copyright protection, where the copyright protection has expired or
162 where the movie is lisenced using a permissive license like one from
163 Creative Commons. These are mixed with copyright protected movies,
164 and there seem to be no way to separate these classes of movies using
165 the information in IMDB.</p>
166
167 <p>First I tried to look up entries manually in IMDB,
168 <a href="https://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a> and
169 <a href="https://www.archive.org/">The Internet Archive</a>, to get a
170 feel how to do this. It is hard to know for sure using these sources,
171 but it should be possible to be reasonable confident a movie is "out
172 of copyright" with a few hours work per movie. As I needed to check
173 almost 20,000 entries, this approach was not sustainable. I simply
174 can not work around the clock for about 6 years to check this data
175 set.</p>
176
177 <p>I asked the people behind The Internet Archive if they could
178 introduce a new metadata field in their metadata XML for IMDB ID, but
179 was told that they leave it completely to the uploaders to update the
180 metadata. Some of the metadata entries had IMDB links in the
181 description, but I found no way to download all metadata files in bulk
182 to locate those ones and put that approach aside.</p>
183
184 <p>In the process I noticed several Wikipedia articles about movies
185 had links to both IMDB and The Internet Archive, and it occured to me
186 that I could use the Wikipedia RDF data set to locate entries with
187 both, to at least get a lower bound on the number of movies on The
188 Internet Archive with a IMDB ID. This is useful based on the
189 assumption that movies distributed by The Internet Archive can be
190 legally distributed on the Internet. With some help from the RDF
191 community (thank you DanC), I was able to come up with this query to
192 pass to <a href="https://query.wikidata.org/">the SPARQL interface on
193 Wikidata</a>:
194
195 <p><pre>
196 SELECT ?work ?imdb ?ia ?when ?label
197 WHERE
198 {
199 ?work wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q11424.
200 ?work wdt:P345 ?imdb.
201 ?work wdt:P724 ?ia.
202 OPTIONAL {
203 ?work wdt:P577 ?when.
204 ?work rdfs:label ?label.
205 FILTER(LANG(?label) = "en").
206 }
207 }
208 </pre></p>
209
210 <p>If I understand the query right, for every film entry anywhere in
211 Wikpedia, it will return the IMDB ID and The Internet Archive ID, and
212 when the movie was released and its English title, if either or both
213 of the latter two are available. At the moment the result set contain
214 2338 entries. Of course, it depend on volunteers including both
215 correct IMDB and The Internet Archive IDs in the wikipedia articles
216 for the movie. It should be noted that the result will include
217 duplicates if the movie have entries in several languages. There are
218 some bogus entries, either because The Internet Archive ID contain a
219 typo or because the movie is not available from The Internet Archive.
220 I did not verify the IMDB IDs, as I am unsure how to do that
221 automatically.</p>
222
223 <p>I wrote a small python script to extract the data set from Wikidata
224 and check if the XML metadata for the movie is available from The
225 Internet Archive, and after around 1.5 hour it produced a list of 2097
226 free movies and their IMDB ID. In total, 171 entries in Wikidata lack
227 the refered Internet Archive entry. I assume the 70 "disappearing"
228 entries (ie 2338-2097-171) are duplicate entries.</p>
229
230 <p>This is not too bad, given that The Internet Archive report to
231 contain <a href="https://archive.org/details/feature_films">5331
232 feature films</a> at the moment, but it also mean more than 3000
233 movies are missing on Wikipedia or are missing the pair of references
234 on Wikipedia.</p>
235
236 <p>I was curious about the distribution by release year, and made a
237 little graph to show how the amount of free movies is spread over the
238 years:<p>
239
240 <p><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-10-25-verk-i-det-fri-filmer.png"></p>
241
242 <p>I expect the relative distribution of the remaining 3000 movies to
243 be similar.</p>
244
245 <p>If you want to help, and want to ensure Wikipedia can be used to
246 cross reference The Internet Archive and The Internet Movie Database,
247 please make sure entries like this are listed under the "External
248 links" heading on the Wikipedia article for the movie:</p>
249
250 <p><pre>
251 * {{Internet Archive film|id=FightingLady}}
252 * {{IMDb title|id=0036823|title=The Fighting Lady}}
253 </pre></p>
254
255 <p>Please verify the links on the final page, to make sure you did not
256 introduce a typo.</p>
257
258 <p>Here is the complete list, if you want to correct the 171
259 identified Wikipedia entries with broken links to The Internet
260 Archive: <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1140317">Q1140317</a>,
261 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q458656">Q458656</a>,
262 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q458656">Q458656</a>,
263 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q470560">Q470560</a>,
264 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q743340">Q743340</a>,
265 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q822580">Q822580</a>,
266 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q480696">Q480696</a>,
267 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q128761">Q128761</a>,
268 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1307059">Q1307059</a>,
269 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1335091">Q1335091</a>,
270 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1537166">Q1537166</a>,
271 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1438334">Q1438334</a>,
272 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1479751">Q1479751</a>,
273 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1497200">Q1497200</a>,
274 <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1498122">Q1498122</a>,
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431 </div>
432 <div class="tags">
433
434
435 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>.
436
437
438 </div>
439 </div>
440 <div class="padding"></div>
441
442 <div class="entry">
443 <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>
444 <div class="date">14th October 2017</div>
445 <div class="body"><p>I find it fascinating how many of the people being locked inside
446 the proposed border wall between USA and Mexico support the idea. The
447 proposal to keep Mexicans out reminds me of
448 <a href="http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-berlin-wall">the
449 propaganda twist from the East Germany government</a> calling the wall
450 the ā€œAntifascist Bulwarkā€ after erecting the Berlin Wall, claiming
451 that the wall was erected to keep enemies from creeping into East
452 Germany, while it was obvious to the people locked inside it that it
453 was erected to keep the people from escaping.</p>
454
455 <p>Do the people in USA supporting this wall really believe it is a
456 one way wall, only keeping people on the outside from getting in,
457 while not keeping people in the inside from getting out?</p>
458 </div>
459 <div class="tags">
460
461
462 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
463
464
465 </div>
466 </div>
467 <div class="padding"></div>
468
469 <div class="entry">
470 <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>
471 <div class="date"> 9th October 2017</div>
472 <div class="body"><p>At my nearby maker space,
473 <a href="http://sonen.ifi.uio.no/">Sonen</a>, I heard the story that it
474 was easier to generate gcode files for theyr 3D printers (Ultimake 2+)
475 on Windows and MacOS X than Linux, because the software involved had
476 to be manually compiled and set up on Linux while premade packages
477 worked out of the box on Windows and MacOS X. I found this annoying,
478 as the software involved,
479 <a href="https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura">Cura</a>, is free software
480 and should be trivial to get up and running on Linux if someone took
481 the time to package it for the relevant distributions. I even found
482 <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/706656">a request for adding into
483 Debian</a> from 2013, which had seem some activity over the years but
484 never resulted in the software showing up in Debian. So a few days
485 ago I offered my help to try to improve the situation.</p>
486
487 <p>Now I am very happy to see that all the packages required by a
488 working Cura in Debian are uploaded into Debian and waiting in the NEW
489 queue for the ftpmasters to have a look. You can track the progress
490 on
491 <a href="https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=3dprinter-general%40lists.alioth.debian.org">the
492 status page for the 3D printer team</a>.</p>
493
494 <p>The uploaded packages are a bit behind upstream, and was uploaded
495 now to get slots in <a href="https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html">the NEW
496 queue</a> while we work up updating the packages to the latest
497 upstream version.</p>
498
499 <p>On a related note, two competitors for Cura, which I found harder
500 to use and was unable to configure correctly for Ultimaker 2+ in the
501 short time I spent on it, are already in Debian. If you are looking
502 for 3D printer "slicers" and want something already available in
503 Debian, check out
504 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/slic3r">slic3r</a> and
505 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/slic3r-prusa">slic3r-prusa</a>.
506 The latter is a fork of the former.</p>
507 </div>
508 <div class="tags">
509
510
511 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>.
512
513
514 </div>
515 </div>
516 <div class="padding"></div>
517
518 <div class="entry">
519 <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>
520 <div class="date"> 4th October 2017</div>
521 <div class="body">NƄr jeg holder pƄ med ulike prosjekter, sƄ trenger jeg stadig ulike
522 skruer. Det siste prosjektet jeg holder pƄ med er Ƅ lage
523 <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:676916">en boks til en
524 HDMI-touch-skjerm</a> som skal brukes med Raspberry Pi. Boksen settes
525 sammen med skruer og bolter, og jeg har vƦrt i tvil om hvor jeg kan
526 fƄ tak i de riktige skruene. Clas Ohlson og Jernia i nƦrheten har
527 sjelden hatt det jeg trenger. Men her om dagen fikk jeg et fantastisk
528 tips for oss som bor i Oslo.
529 <a href="http://www.zachskruer.no/">Zachariassen Jernvare AS</a> i
530 <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=59.93421&mlon=10.76795#map=19/59.93421/10.76795">Hegermannsgate
531 23A pƄ Torshov</a> har et fantastisk utvalg, og Ƅpent mellom 09:00 og
532 17:00. De selger skruer, muttere, bolter, skiver etc i lĆøs vekt, og
533 sƄ langt har jeg fƄtt alt jeg har lett etter. De har i tillegg det
534 meste av annen jernvare, som verktĆøy, lamper, ledninger, etc. Jeg
535 hƄper de har nok kunder til Ƅ holde det gƄende lenge, da dette er en
536 butikk jeg kommer til Ć„ besĆøke ofte. Butikken er et funn Ć„ ha i
537 nabolaget for oss som liker Ć„ bygge litt selv. :)</p>
538 </div>
539 <div class="tags">
540
541
542 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
543
544
545 </div>
546 </div>
547 <div class="padding"></div>
548
549 <div class="entry">
550 <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>
551 <div class="date">29th September 2017</div>
552 <div class="body"><p>Every mobile phone announce its existence over radio to the nearby
553 mobile cell towers. And this radio chatter is available for anyone
554 with a radio receiver capable of receiving them. Details about the
555 mobile phones with very good accuracy is of course collected by the
556 phone companies, but this is not the topic of this blog post. The
557 mobile phone radio chatter make it possible to figure out when a cell
558 phone is nearby, as it include the SIM card ID (IMSI). By paying
559 attention over time, one can see when a phone arrive and when it leave
560 an area. I believe it would be nice to make this information more
561 available to the general public, to make more people aware of how
562 their phones are announcing their whereabouts to anyone that care to
563 listen.</p>
564
565 <p>I am very happy to report that we managed to get something
566 visualizing this information up and running for
567 <a href="http://norwaymakers.org/osf17">Oslo Skaperfestival 2017</a>
568 (Oslo Makers Festival) taking place today and tomorrow at Deichmanske
569 library. The solution is based on the
570 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Easier_recipe_to_observe_the_cell_phones_around_you.html">simple
571 recipe for listening to GSM chatter</a> I posted a few days ago, and
572 will show up at the stand of <a href="http://sonen.ifi.uio.no/">ƅpen
573 Sone from the Computer Science department of the University of
574 Oslo</a>. The presentation will show the nearby mobile phones (aka
575 IMSIs) as dots in a web browser graph, with lines to the dot
576 representing mobile base station it is talking to. It was working in
577 the lab yesterday, and was moved into place this morning.</p>
578
579 <p>We set up a fairly powerful desktop machine using Debian
580 Buster/Testing with several (five, I believe) RTL2838 DVB-T receivers
581 connected and visualize the visible cell phone towers using an
582 <a href="https://github.com/marlow925/hopglass">English version of
583 Hopglass</a>. A fairly powerfull machine is needed as the
584 grgsm_livemon_headless processes from
585 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gr-gsm">gr-gsm</a> converting
586 the radio signal to data packages is quite CPU intensive.</p>
587
588 <p>The frequencies to listen to, are identified using a slightly
589 patched scan-and-livemon (to set the --args values for each receiver),
590 and the Hopglass data is generated using the
591 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/IMSI-catcher/tree/meshviewer-output">patches
592 in my meshviewer-output branch</a>. For some reason we could not get
593 more than four SDRs working. There is also a geographical map trying
594 to show the location of the base stations, but I believe their
595 coordinates are hardcoded to some random location in Germany, I
596 believe. The code should be replaced with code to look up location in
597 a text file, a sqlite database or one of the online databases
598 mentioned in
599 <a href="https://github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher/issues/14">the github
600 issue for the topic</a>.
601
602 <p>If this sound interesting, visit the stand at the festival!</p>
603 </div>
604 <div class="tags">
605
606
607 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>.
608
609
610 </div>
611 </div>
612 <div class="padding"></div>
613
614 <div class="entry">
615 <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>
616 <div class="date">24th September 2017</div>
617 <div class="body"><p>A little more than a month ago I wrote
618 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Simpler_recipe_on_how_to_make_a_simple__7_IMSI_Catcher_using_Debian.html">how
619 to observe the SIM card ID (aka IMSI number) of mobile phones talking
620 to nearby mobile phone base stations using Debian GNU/Linux and a
621 cheap USB software defined radio</a>, and thus being able to pinpoint
622 the location of people and equipment (like cars and trains) with an
623 accuracy of a few kilometer. Since then we have worked to make the
624 procedure even simpler, and it is now possible to do this without any
625 manual frequency tuning and without building your own packages.</p>
626
627 <p>The <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gr-gsm">gr-gsm</a>
628 package is now included in Debian testing and unstable, and the
629 IMSI-catcher code no longer require root access to fetch and decode
630 the GSM data collected using gr-gsm.</p>
631
632 <p>Here is an updated recipe, using packages built by Debian and a git
633 clone of two python scripts:</p>
634
635 <ol>
636
637 <li>Start with a Debian machine running the Buster version (aka
638 testing).</li>
639
640 <li>Run '<tt>apt install gr-gsm python-numpy python-scipy
641 python-scapy</tt>' as root to install required packages.</li>
642
643 <li>Fetch the code decoding GSM packages using '<tt>git clone
644 github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher.git</tt>'.</li>
645
646 <li>Insert USB software defined radio supported by GNU Radio.</li>
647
648 <li>Enter the IMSI-catcher directory and run '<tt>python
649 scan-and-livemon</tt>' to locate the frequency of nearby base
650 stations and start listening for GSM packages on one of them.</li>
651
652 <li>Enter the IMSI-catcher directory and run '<tt>python
653 simple_IMSI-catcher.py</tt>' to display the collected information.</li>
654
655 </ol>
656
657 <p>Note, due to a bug somewhere the scan-and-livemon program (actually
658 <a href="https://github.com/ptrkrysik/gr-gsm/issues/336">its underlying
659 program grgsm_scanner</a>) do not work with the HackRF radio. It does
660 work with RTL 8232 and other similar USB radio receivers you can get
661 very cheaply
662 (<a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/items/?_nkw=rtl+2832">for example
663 from ebay</a>), so for now the solution is to scan using the RTL radio
664 and only use HackRF for fetching GSM data.</p>
665
666 <p>As far as I can tell, a cell phone only show up on one of the
667 frequencies at the time, so if you are going to track and count every
668 cell phone around you, you need to listen to all the frequencies used.
669 To listen to several frequencies, use the --numrecv argument to
670 scan-and-livemon to use several receivers. Further, I am not sure if
671 phones using 3G or 4G will show as talking GSM to base stations, so
672 this approach might not see all phones around you. I typically see
673 0-400 IMSI numbers an hour when looking around where I live.</p>
674
675 <p>I've tried to run the scanner on a
676 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi">Raspberry Pi 2 and 3
677 running Debian Buster</a>, but the grgsm_livemon_headless process seem
678 to be too CPU intensive to keep up. When GNU Radio print 'O' to
679 stdout, I am told there it is caused by a buffer overflow between the
680 radio and GNU Radio, caused by the program being unable to read the
681 GSM data fast enough. If you see a stream of 'O's from the terminal
682 where you started scan-and-livemon, you need a give the process more
683 CPU power. Perhaps someone are able to optimize the code to a point
684 where it become possible to set up RPi3 based GSM sniffers? I tried
685 using Raspbian instead of Debian, but there seem to be something wrong
686 with GNU Radio on raspbian, causing glibc to abort().</p>
687 </div>
688 <div class="tags">
689
690
691 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>.
692
693
694 </div>
695 </div>
696 <div class="padding"></div>
697
698 <div class="entry">
699 <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>
700 <div class="date"> 7th September 2017</div>
701 <div class="body"><p>For noen dager siden publiserte Jon Wessel-Aas en bloggpost om
702 Ā«<a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?p=1821">Konklusjonen om datalagring som
703 EU-kommisjonen ikke ville at vi skulle fÄ se</a>». Det er en
704 interessant gjennomgang av EU-domstolens syn pƄ snurpenotovervƄkning
705 av befolkningen, som er klar pƄ at det er i strid med
706 EU-lovgivingen.</p>
707
708 <p>Valgkampen gƄr for fullt i Norge, og om noen fƄ dager er siste
709 frist for Ć„ avgi stemme. En ting er sikkert, HĆøyre og Arbeiderpartiet
710 fƄr ikke min stemme
711 <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
712 gangen heller</a>. Jeg har ikke glemt at de tvang igjennom loven som
713 skulle pÄlegge alle data- og teletjenesteleverandører Ä overvÄke alle
714 sine kunder. En lov som er vedtatt, og aldri opphevet igjen.</p>
715
716 <p>Det er tydelig fra diskusjonen rundt grenseløs digital overvÄkning
717 (eller "Digital Grenseforsvar" som det kalles i Orvellisk nytale) at
718 hverken HĆøyre og Arbeiderpartiet har noen prinsipielle sperrer mot Ć„
719 overvƄke hele befolkningen, og diskusjonen sƄ langt tyder pƄ at flere
720 av de andre partiene heller ikke har det. Mange av
721 <a href="https://data.holderdeord.no/votes/1301946411e">de som stemte
722 for Datalagringsdirektivet i Stortinget</a> (64 fra Arbeiderpartiet,
723 25 fra HĆøyre) er fortsatt aktive og argumenterer fortsatt for Ć„ radere
724 vekk mer av innbyggernes privatsfƦre.</p>
725
726 <p>NƄr myndighetene demonstrerer sin mistillit til folket, tror jeg
727 folket selv bĆør legge litt innsats i Ć„ verne sitt privatliv, ved Ć„ ta
728 i bruk ende-til-ende-kryptert kommunikasjon med sine kjente og kjƦre,
729 og begrense hvor mye privat informasjon som deles med uvedkommende.
730 Det er jo ingenting som tyder pƄ at myndighetene kommer til Ƅ vƦre vƄr
731 privatsfƦre.
732 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_talk_with_your_loved_ones_in_private.html">Det
733 er mange muligheter</a>. Selv har jeg litt sans for
734 <a href="https://ring.cx/">Ring</a>, som er basert pƄ p2p-teknologi
735 uten sentral kontroll, er fri programvare, og stĆøtter meldinger, tale
736 og video. Systemet er tilgjengelig ut av boksen fra
737 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ring">Debian</a> og
738 <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ring">Ubuntu</a>, og det
739 finnes pakker for Android, MacOSX og Windows. Foreløpig er det fÄ
740 brukere med Ring, slik at jeg ogsƄ bruker
741 <a href="https://signal.org/">Signal</a> som nettleserutvidelse.</p>
742 </div>
743 <div class="tags">
744
745
746 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>.
747
748
749 </div>
750 </div>
751 <div class="padding"></div>
752
753 <div class="entry">
754 <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>
755 <div class="date"> 9th August 2017</div>
756 <div class="body"><p>On friday, I came across an interesting article in the Norwegian
757 web based ICT news magazine digi.no on
758 <a href="https://www.digi.no/artikler/sikkerhetsforsker-lagde-enkel-imsi-catcher-for-60-kroner-na-kan-mobiler-kartlegges-av-alle/398588">how
759 to collect the IMSI numbers of nearby cell phones</a> using the cheap
760 DVB-T software defined radios. The article refered to instructions
761 and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjwgNd_as30">a recipe by
762 Keld Norman on Youtube on how to make a simple $7 IMSI Catcher</a>, and I decided to test them out.</p>
763
764 <p>The instructions said to use Ubuntu, install pip using apt (to
765 bypass apt), use pip to install pybombs (to bypass both apt and pip),
766 and the ask pybombs to fetch and build everything you need from
767 scratch. I wanted to see if I could do the same on the most recent
768 Debian packages, but this did not work because pybombs tried to build
769 stuff that no longer build with the most recent openssl library or
770 some other version skew problem. While trying to get this recipe
771 working, I learned that the apt->pip->pybombs route was a long detour,
772 and the only piece of software dependency missing in Debian was the
773 gr-gsm package. I also found out that the lead upstream developer of
774 gr-gsm (the name stand for GNU Radio GSM) project already had a set of
775 Debian packages provided in an Ubuntu PPA repository. All I needed to
776 do was to dget the Debian source package and built it.</p>
777
778 <p>The IMSI collector is a python script listening for packages on the
779 loopback network device and printing to the terminal some specific GSM
780 packages with IMSI numbers in them. The code is fairly short and easy
781 to understand. The reason this work is because gr-gsm include a tool
782 to read GSM data from a software defined radio like a DVB-T USB stick
783 and other software defined radios, decode them and inject them into a
784 network device on your Linux machine (using the loopback device by
785 default). This proved to work just fine, and I've been testing the
786 collector for a few days now.</p>
787
788 <p>The updated and simpler recipe is thus to</p>
789
790 <ol>
791
792 <li>start with a Debian machine running Stretch or newer,</li>
793
794 <li>build and install the gr-gsm package available from
795 <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>
796
797 <li>clone the git repostory from <a href="https://github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher">https://github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher</a>,</li>
798
799 <li>run grgsm_livemon and adjust the frequency until the terminal
800 where it was started is filled with a stream of text (meaning you
801 found a GSM station).</li>
802
803 <li>go into the IMSI-catcher directory and run 'sudo python simple_IMSI-catcher.py' to extract the IMSI numbers.</li>
804
805 </ol>
806
807 <p>To make it even easier in the future to get this sniffer up and
808 running, I decided to package
809 <a href="https://github.com/ptrkrysik/gr-gsm/">the gr-gsm project</a>
810 for Debian (<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/871055">WNPP
811 #871055</a>), and the package was uploaded into the NEW queue today.
812 Luckily the gnuradio maintainer has promised to help me, as I do not
813 know much about gnuradio stuff yet.</p>
814
815 <p>I doubt this "IMSI cacher" is anywhere near as powerfull as
816 commercial tools like
817 <a href="https://www.thespyphone.com/portable-imsi-imei-catcher/">The
818 Spy Phone Portable IMSI / IMEI Catcher</a> or the
819 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker">Harris
820 Stingray</a>, but I hope the existance of cheap alternatives can make
821 more people realise how their whereabouts when carrying a cell phone
822 is easily tracked. Seeing the data flow on the screen, realizing that
823 I live close to a police station and knowing that the police is also
824 wearing cell phones, I wonder how hard it would be for criminals to
825 track the position of the police officers to discover when there are
826 police near by, or for foreign military forces to track the location
827 of the Norwegian military forces, or for anyone to track the location
828 of government officials...</p>
829
830 <p>It is worth noting that the data reported by the IMSI-catcher
831 script mentioned above is only a fraction of the data broadcasted on
832 the GSM network. It will only collect one frequency at the time,
833 while a typical phone will be using several frequencies, and not all
834 phones will be using the frequencies tracked by the grgsm_livemod
835 program. Also, there is a lot of radio chatter being ignored by the
836 simple_IMSI-catcher script, which would be collected by extending the
837 parser code. I wonder if gr-gsm can be set up to listen to more than
838 one frequency?</p>
839 </div>
840 <div class="tags">
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843 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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880
881 </ul></li>
882
883 <li>2016
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887
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909
910 </ul></li>
911
912 <li>2015
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914
915 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2015/01/">January (7)</a></li>
916
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934
935 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2015/11/">November (6)</a></li>
936
937 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2015/12/">December (3)</a></li>
938
939 </ul></li>
940
941 <li>2014
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943
944 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/01/">January (2)</a></li>
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946 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/02/">February (3)</a></li>
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960 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/09/">September (5)</a></li>
961
962 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/10/">October (6)</a></li>
963
964 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/11/">November (3)</a></li>
965
966 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/12/">December (5)</a></li>
967
968 </ul></li>
969
970 <li>2013
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972
973 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/01/">January (11)</a></li>
974
975 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/02/">February (9)</a></li>
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979 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/04/">April (6)</a></li>
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991 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/10/">October (7)</a></li>
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995 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/12/">December (3)</a></li>
996
997 </ul></li>
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999 <li>2012
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1003
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1020 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/10/">October (17)</a></li>
1021
1022 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/11/">November (10)</a></li>
1023
1024 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1025
1026 </ul></li>
1027
1028 <li>2011
1029 <ul>
1030
1031 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
1032
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1034
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1036
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1040
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1042
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1044
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1046
1047 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
1048
1049 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (2)</a></li>
1050
1051 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
1052
1053 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
1054
1055 </ul></li>
1056
1057 <li>2010
1058 <ul>
1059
1060 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
1061
1062 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
1063
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1065
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1067
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1069
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1071
1072 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/07/">July (12)</a></li>
1073
1074 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
1075
1076 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
1077
1078 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
1079
1080 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
1081
1082 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
1083
1084 </ul></li>
1085
1086 <li>2009
1087 <ul>
1088
1089 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
1090
1091 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
1092
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1094
1095 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/04/">April (10)</a></li>
1096
1097 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/05/">May (9)</a></li>
1098
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1100
1101 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
1102
1103 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
1104
1105 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
1106
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1108
1109 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
1110
1111 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
1112
1113 </ul></li>
1114
1115 <li>2008
1116 <ul>
1117
1118 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
1119
1120 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1121
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1123
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