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AIMSICD • Fight IMSI-Catcher, StingRay and silent SMS!

25 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 3 stories, 22 comments · first 2014-06-04 · latest 2025-08-21

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  1. Buy a broadcom smartphone. Turn bluetooth off, and set it to airplane mode. Then Bluepwn your device, with bluetooth turned off. Funny how airplane mode didn't work. That's just one of the quirks. Baseband and what qualcomm is tracking is…
    comment by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t · 2025-08-21 · in Burner Phone 101
  2. Looks like any app can be installed silently behind your back with GTalkService that is running on your Android phone https://github.com/CellularPrivacy/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Dete... https://jon.oberheide.org/blog/2010/06/28/a-peek-inside-th…
    comment by orangepurple · 2023-07-06 · in France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone
  3. No, that was most likely spam. You cant even see service updates(OTA), just like silent sms(type0) they are invisible to the user. https://github.com/CellularPrivacy/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Dete...
    comment by rasz · 2018-12-27 · in How to Block Stingray Devices
  4. When sincerely concerned about stingray devices it might be a better idea to either invest in a professional detection appliance or to install applications such as AIMSICD. ( foss/free) If you only deny 2g connectivity; it provides no…
    comment by coretx · 2018-12-27 · in How to Block Stingray Devices
  5. There is an Android app called IMSI-Catcher Detector[0] that is supposed to help you detect when you're connected to a stingray-type device. I ran it for around a year and it never once picked up on anything. I'm not involved on the…
    comment by programbreeding · 2018-07-02 · in How a Hacker Proved Cops Used a Stingray to Find Him
  6. IMSI Catcher Detector for Android https://github.com/CellularPrivacy/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Dete...
    comment by liamtk43 · 2018-05-19 · in Devices Which Track Cellphones, Intercept Calls Found All Over DC, MD, VA
  7. No, there are stealth SMS messages and your baseband processor is receiving/answering them even when phone is off but battery is inside. https://github.com/CellularPrivacy/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Dete...
    comment by bitL · 2018-02-22 · in Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI
  8. Relevant: Lack of a Cipher Status Indicator on Android has been an open issue since 2009 ( https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5353 ) There is also an open-source android app to detect fake base-stations:…
    comment by forgotpwtomain · 2016-12-04 · in Signs of a Creepy Government Conspiracy at Standing Rock
  9. There's an app for that: https://github.com/CellularPrivacy/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Dete...
    comment by Zak · 2016-07-14 · in U.S. judge throws out cell phone 'stingray' evidence
  10. Old cruft doesn't die. Old cruft even gets ported to new platforms. I installed https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector the other day and found a menu entry called "AT command interface", which I shall carefully leave…
    comment by Arnt · 2016-01-20 · in Thanks for Trumpet Winsock
  11. Maybe referring to a "short message type 0" https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/iss...
    comment by Perixoog · 2016-01-15 · in Signs of Secret Phone Surveillance Across London
  12. …closed your eyes the whole time when doing the "full code review", otherwise you would have read: * https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector#war... * https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/blo... * What is…
    comment by SecUpwN · 2015-12-23 · in Cell-Site Simulators Aren’t Secret Anymore
  13. …cells from OCID). Recently all of this what I say here was proven on their issue board on Github. https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/iss... Next week I will put my hands on SnoopSnitch.
    comment by akerro · 2015-12-11 · in Cell-Site Simulators Aren’t Secret Anymore
  14. Like this? * https://secupwn.github.io/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/ * https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector
    comment by alfiedotwtf · 2015-04-22 · in This machine catches stingrays: Pwnie Express demos cellular threat detector
  15. …know. Does for example this stuff work? (It's unclear how far they've gotten on their TODO-list): https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector I also seem to recall some talk from the people behind Cyanogen about detecting…
    comment by e12e · 2014-12-13 · in Secret surveillance detected in Oslo
  16. …I can't browse for it on the site. The project is in alpha stage and seems to be this one here: https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector There's also this paper on making IMSI-catcher detectors:…
    comment by higherpurpose · 2014-12-13 · in Secret surveillance detected in Oslo
  17. …pull requests! * Website: https://secupwn.github.io/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/ * Roadmap: https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector#dev... Be brave and join us! SecUpwN and the whole AIMSICD-Team.
    comment by SecUpwN · 2014-11-10 · in Show HN: Fight against spying on your Smartphone
  18. …But for now, why not just grab the most recent compiled WIP-Release from here and give it a shot? https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/rel... Also, as much as I appreciate your comment just to find this thread later on,…
    comment by slashdotaccount · 2014-07-31 · in Android IMSI-Catcher Detector
  19. …we have RIGHTS! So grab your balls and contribute! Oh, and for the shy ones, here's the disclaimer: https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/blo...
    comment by slashdotaccount · 2014-07-31 · in Android IMSI-Catcher Detector
  20. …developers with balls. Don't be shy, feel free to contribute, in any way you can on GitHub: https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector
    comment by slashdotaccount · 2014-07-30 · in Android IMSI-Catcher Detector
  21. Pretty neat, and somewhat relevant: https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector
    comment by ianpenney · 2014-06-17 · in Help MuckRock crowd-FOIA Stingray usage around the country
  22. https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector
    comment by genericacct · 2014-06-04 · in Judge Releases Information about Police Use of Stingray Cell Phone Trackers