As always, EFF is excited to be back in Washington, D.C. for the final ShmooCon! Stop by the EFF booth to chat with some of our team and learn about the latest developments in defending digital freedom for all. You can even pick up a special gift as a token of our thanks when you take advantage of our membership specials or donate.
Can't make it to this year's ShmooCon but want to renew your support from a past Shmoo? No problem! You can browse our membership options online, make a donation, and grab some gear! Plus, you can also check out some of the additional EFF gear we'll have at the conference by browsing our online shop.
Be sure to see EFF's Cooper Quintin and Will Greenberg on Saturday, January 11 at 1100 in the "Build It!" track for a talk titled "Rayhunter: Recording PCAPs from Stingrays With a $20 Hotspot"
In this talk we present Rayhunter, a cell site simulator detector built on top of a cheap cellular hotspot. It works by collecting and analyzing real-time control plane traffic between a cellular modem and the base station it’s connected to. We will outline the hardware and the software developed to get low level information from the Qualcomm DIAG protocol, as well as go on a deep dive into the methods we think are used by modern cell-site simulators. We’ll present independently validated results from tests of our device in a simulated attack environment and real world scenarios. Finally, we will discuss how we hope to put this device into the hands of journalists, researchers, and human rights defenders around the world to answer the question: how often are we being spied on by cell site simulators?
Of course, EFF is here to help support the community. If you have legal concerns regarding an upcoming talk or sensitive information security research you are conducting, please email info@eff.org and we will do our best to get you the help that you need.
More about ShmooCon: ShmooCon is an annual east coast hacker convention hell-bent on offering three days of an interesting atmosphere for demonstrating technology exploitation, inventive software and hardware solutions, and open discussions of critical infosec issues. The first day is a single track of speed talks called One Track Mind. The next two days bring three tracks: Build It, Belay It, and Bring It On.
