Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS) around the world.
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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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To @irotsoma@lemmy.world’s point, could a phone app be made to :
Theoretically this would allow a device to notify on a new “tower”/etc. Oddly enough I’m going to be around a bunch of telecom people in the coming weeks, so I might ask about this.
The followup article is interestinf https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/rayhunter-what-we-have-found-so-far
Looking at the date of the article, apparently this was released in March of 2025, but I had not heard of it, so it’s good to once in a while see older articles like this resurface again.
Still pretty limited set of supported devices, but it’s not really mean to be a defensive tool. Would be nice if this results in a way to detect and prevent your device from connecting to them, someday.
https://efforg.github.io/rayhunter/