LTESniffer โ€“ An Open-Source LTE Downlink/Uplink Eavesdropper

  • Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35705683 (256 points, 55 comments)

  • Um, yeah, I donโ€™t have $20k to drop on an Ettus USRP X310 and two daughterboards. I would have liked to have played with it but that is too rich for me.

  • Does anyone know the encryption schema of LTE? Does the key change with each message or is it for a longer period of time? I'm wondering how feasible it is for an attacker to capture and then break the encryption (obviously if we're talking 2048-bit that wont be happening anytime soon)

  • The FBI got caught doing something kind of similar in a pretty hilarious way (the full story is nuts) using a device called a "stingray" - https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/surreal-stingra...

    Although in this case, they were disguising themselves as a cell tower and intercepting traffic that way.

  • Eavesdropping tool with eavesdropping name with a little disclaimer about not being responsible for illegal use

    Yeah this is the kind of repository that you clone immediately

    Clone, dont just Fork