[liberationtech] CommunityCellularManager Open Source Release

2016-11-18 Thread Kurtis Heimerl
Apologizes for cross posting. CommunityCellularManager, Facebook's open source suite for distributed management of community-led cellular networks (using their OpenCellular platform) was released recently. The general idea is to provide a cloud suite of tools and technologies to simplify the

Re: [liberationtech] End-user IMSI detectors

2017-04-06 Thread Kurtis Heimerl
We're starting a project here at UW to explore how good these IMSI catcher catchers are in the real world. We've got a GSM spectrum license and will be running a small GSM cell network that we can then try to intercept traffic/catch users from. Should be fun. If people have suggestions for things

Re: [liberationtech] Pro-Democracy Activists Run into Telegram Issue

2018-12-30 Thread Kurtis Heimerl
This is interesting. I had a discussion with an activist in the past who mentioned that telegram offers state actors access to telegram groups if threatened with in-country blocks of some kind. While this should be taken with a grain of salt, being hearsay and all, it makes sense to me as (afaik)