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Student sentenced to jail for showing TETRA insecurity

Added by laforge almost 8 years ago

According to some news report, including this report at softpedia, a 26 year old student at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security in Maribor, Slovenia has received a suspended prison sentence for finding flaws in Slovenian police and army TETRA network using OsmocomTETRA.

If a TETRA network (like any other network) is configured with broken security, then the people responsible for configuring and operating that network are to be blamed, and not the researcher who invests his personal time and effort into demonstrating that police radio communications safety is broken. On the outside, the court sentence really sounds like "shoot the messenger". They should instead have jailed the people responsible for deploying such an insecure network in the first place, as well as those responsible for not doing the most basic air-interface interception tests before putting such a network into production.

According to all reports, the student had shared the results of his research with the authorities and there are public detailed reports from 2015, like the report (in Slovenian) at https://podcrto.si/vdor-v-komunikacijo-policije-razkril-hude-varnostne-ranljivosti-sistema-tetra/.

Chaosradio podcast about TETRA and OsmocomTETRA

Added by laforge over 12 years ago

Today, a ​Chaosradio Express (CRE) about TETRA has been released at ​http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre183.html

OsmocomTETRA founder ​Harald Welte was interviewed by ​Tim Pritlove, maker of the popular German language technology podcast Chaosradio Express.

The 2 hours and 20 minutes long interview covers the historic evolution from analog radio, trunked radio to digital trunked radion and TETRA. It also covers users, security issues and the OsmocomTETRA project.

Please note: CRE is a German language publication.

Starting to analyze the Dimetra BTS

Added by laforge almost 13 years ago

We have recently started to analyze some old Motorola Dimetra equipment, the progress can be found at Dimetra_EBTS and the follow-up pages.

Any hints on how to configure/setup/use this hardware are appreciated, especailly regarding the Ethernet protocol between BR and TSC, as well as the E1 protocol from TSC to SwMI.

Osmocom TETRA project goes public

Added by laforge about 13 years ago

Today, we publicly disclose the current development version of a TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio) demodulator + PHY + MAC code.

The project home page, including links to source code and mailing list is ​OsmocomTETRA

After GSM and DECT, finally yet another popular wireless communications protocol will see a Free Software implementation.

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