#Android snoop catcher android#

In my case I use the awesome Android IMSI Catcher Detector. The phone I am using is an android phone and there are several android apps that will give you this information. There are various ways to get this information such as the engineering menu on blackberries. The cell identity combined with the location area identity (LAI) which uniquely identifies the country, mobile network and location area code is what we need to get. A BTS is uniquely identified using an assigned cell identity (Cell ID). I therefore need to identify the BTS that my Orange line is connected to. The technical term for this is the downlink. The specific point at which I’ll capture the traffic is as it’s being sent by the BTS to the Orange line. I own both lines steering clear of the legality issue of decrypting other people’s traffic. I am going to send an SMS from a Safaricom line to an Orange line, capture the traffic over the Um (air) interface and decrypt the data to retrieve the SMS. I start with SMS traffic which falls under the data category. With this in mind I’ll do a two part series to demonstrate how voice and data can be sniffed using the HackRF. The traffic that the normal user of a telecommunication network is concerned with is voice and data. GSM traffic carries a lot of information, from system information to the actual voice and data we are familiar with. In the previous post, I explained how GSM traffic can be sniffed with the HackRF One.

Android snoop catcher