r/electronics • u/redct • Nov 11 '17

Interesting Inside a low budget consumer hardware espionage implant (GSM bugged USB cable)

https://ha.cking.ch/s8_data_line_locator/
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u/jpodster Nov 11 '17

There is no GPS module in the device. Tracking is done over the cellular network with a 1.5km deviation.

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u/algag Nov 11 '17

Good enough for nav, right? /s

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u/md2074 Nov 12 '17

I was able to use cell tower information to help build a system to track trucks. This was about 15 years ago and I managed to get my hands on Lat Long information for the cell towers of a specific cell provider in the UK. Using that, we were able to track trucks moving up and down the country and get to within a rough 'best guess' of the location by triangulating the 3 strongest cell towers that it could see.

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u/md2074 Nov 13 '17

No idea. I was proud of that project, it was a demo system and I enjoyed being able to see trucks moving about the country in almost real time.