So I was looking around on the archives over at HackADay and found some information on hacking a pre-paid cell phones baseband to intercept data on the gsm cellphone network. Apparently with a 1TB rainbow table you can crack the encryption keys in 20 seconds (sounds off to me but ok) and once you’ve done that you can intercept and record phone calls or even make calls using that persons number. This project will also allow you to modify your phones location on the gsm network, the older phone not having a gps would have to tell the tower where it is at and this would alow you to change that data and appear to be somewhere your not…
Even more interesting you can locate other phones in your area and generate a kml file and load up a map or google earth and view their position… XD Phone phreaking is here to stay.
I of course have purchased a hackable phone, datacable, RS232/USB adapter, and have begun creating a distro based on ubuntu in virtualbox that will contain all the tools I need so I can dig in once it gets here.. It’s even rumored you could perform dos attacks and shutdown service, but of course you don’t want to do that unless your looking for jail time.