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[ale] Iridium phones
Jim Kinney via Ale
2018-02-02 01:59:04 UTC
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I scored a couple of iridium phones (no chargers) and some qualcom sat phones (with chargers). Surely this haul is hack toy gold.

Ideas?
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Pete Hardie via Ale
2018-02-02 02:04:23 UTC
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Call in a CIA sanctioned airstrike?
Post by Jim Kinney via Ale
I scored a couple of iridium phones (no chargers) and some qualcom sat
phones (with chargers). Surely this haul is hack toy gold.
Ideas?
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Jim Kinney via Ale
2018-02-02 04:25:18 UTC
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Noted! Might be better ways to light up a target than "aim for my phone signal" :-)
Post by Pete Hardie via Ale
Call in a CIA sanctioned airstrike?
Post by Jim Kinney via Ale
I scored a couple of iridium phones (no chargers) and some qualcom
sat
Post by Jim Kinney via Ale
phones (with chargers). Surely this haul is hack toy gold.
Ideas?
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Jonathan Meek via Ale
2018-02-02 13:03:47 UTC
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Hey Jim,
Are they in working order and you would be willing to part with one? I have
family in Puerto Rico and we have been looking for a sat phone for my
grandmother to have in case another hurricane Maria occurs to keep some
line of communication open.

Regards,

Jonathan
Post by Jim Kinney via Ale
Noted! Might be better ways to light up a target than "aim for my phone signal" :-)
Post by Pete Hardie via Ale
Call in a CIA sanctioned airstrike?
Post by Jim Kinney via Ale
I scored a couple of iridium phones (no chargers) and some qualcom sat
phones (with chargers). Surely this haul is hack toy gold.
Ideas?
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Jim Kinney via Ale
2018-02-02 13:52:02 UTC
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Neither Iridium unit has a charger :-(

But there are chargers for the qualcoms. Globalstar is their service. I charged one last night and it powered up. If I stand in the middle of my street it connects to the globalstar satellite network. Of course it has no account so I couldn't make a call.

Sure, one is yours :-)
Post by Jonathan Meek via Ale
Hey Jim,
Are they in working order and you would be willing to part with one? I have
family in Puerto Rico and we have been looking for a sat phone for my
grandmother to have in case another hurricane Maria occurs to keep some
line of communication open.
Regards,
Jonathan
Post by Jim Kinney via Ale
Noted! Might be better ways to light up a target than "aim for my
phone
Post by Jim Kinney via Ale
signal" :-)
On February 1, 2018 9:04:23 PM EST, Pete Hardie
Post by Pete Hardie via Ale
Call in a CIA sanctioned airstrike?
Post by Jim Kinney via Ale
I scored a couple of iridium phones (no chargers) and some qualcom
sat
Post by Jim Kinney via Ale
Post by Pete Hardie via Ale
Post by Jim Kinney via Ale
phones (with chargers). Surely this haul is hack toy gold.
Ideas?
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DJ-Pfulio via Ale
2018-02-02 14:00:08 UTC
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Well, there is always this:
https://thehackernews.com/2017/07/satellite-phone-encryption.html
and
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/23/sat_comm_vulns/
and


I remember seeing a security conference talk about some guys who
captured multiple channels for hours and decrypted the comms - they only
heard 1-side of the conversation (the part talking down to their area of
the world), but the sentences were pretty telling. War operations. Drug
deals, stuff like that - at least in their presentation. Someone on an
island ordering a replacement generator isn't nearly as interesting.

BTW, cell phone encryption is worse.
Post by Jim Kinney via Ale
Neither Iridium unit has a charger :-(
But there are chargers for the qualcoms. Globalstar is their service. I
charged one last night and it powered up. If I stand in the middle of my
street it connects to the globalstar satellite network. Of course it has
no account so I couldn't make a call.
Sure, one is yours :-)
On February 2, 2018 8:03:47 AM EST, Jonathan Meek
Hey Jim,
Are they in working order and you would be willing to part with one?
I have family in Puerto Rico and we have been looking for a sat
phone for my grandmother to have in case another hurricane Maria
occurs to keep some line of communication open.
Regards,
Jonathan
Noted! Might be better ways to light up a target than "aim for
my phone signal" :-)
On February 1, 2018 9:04:23 PM EST, Pete Hardie
Call in a CIA sanctioned airstrike?
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 8:59 PM, Jim Kinney via Ale
I scored a couple of iridium phones (no chargers) and
some qualcom sat phones (with chargers). Surely this
haul is hack toy gold.
Ideas?
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Jim Kinney via Ale
2018-02-02 13:54:35 UTC
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Ouch! Rate plan hurts.

https://www.globalstar.com/en/index.php?cid=1250
Post by Jonathan Meek via Ale
Hey Jim,
Are they in working order and you would be willing to part with one? I have
family in Puerto Rico and we have been looking for a sat phone for my
grandmother to have in case another hurricane Maria occurs to keep some
line of communication open.
Regards,
Jonathan
Post by Jim Kinney via Ale
Noted! Might be better ways to light up a target than "aim for my
phone
Post by Jim Kinney via Ale
signal" :-)
On February 1, 2018 9:04:23 PM EST, Pete Hardie
Post by Pete Hardie via Ale
Call in a CIA sanctioned airstrike?
Post by Jim Kinney via Ale
I scored a couple of iridium phones (no chargers) and some qualcom
sat
Post by Jim Kinney via Ale
Post by Pete Hardie via Ale
Post by Jim Kinney via Ale
phones (with chargers). Surely this haul is hack toy gold.
Ideas?
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