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How will they outlaw an open-source project? They can "outlaw" all they want, they're already doing what they want, when they want it. It's time for the brave people out there to fight back! Have some balls and stand against the massive abuse of your most private data!

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cowbell|11 years ago

Look at the attempts to outlaw apps like Trapster. You give away the position of speed traps and DUI checkpoints and cops don't like that.

Last I heard, Trapster was forced to remove DUI checkpoints to stay on the app store. That was after attempts to rule it illegal in court failed. Same result. Crowdsourced DUI checkpoint apps are effectively gone if the stores don't have them. If only a few sideloaders have them, then there's no crowd to source.

This would work in a similar manner, but would expose the cops' fake cell towers. I fully expect this to suffer a similar fate.

That is not to say I don't like the project. I commented just so I could find it again in the future :)

slashdotaccount|11 years ago

That is exactly the reason why we keep this porject as open-source as possible, have a disclaimer for it which basically tells YOU to be responsible what you do with the code and most importantly, we are on NO STORE, especially not GooglePlay. If an App moves to GooglePlay and does something that not plays by the rediculous "rules" (serach for what happened to the awesome HushSMS), they're kicked.

If any store, then F-Droid. But for now, why not just grab the most recent compiled WIP-Release from here and give it a shot? https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/rel...

Also, as much as I appreciate your comment just to find this thread later on, this is NOT the official discussion of the App. I HIGHLY recommend just starring the GitHub and (if you have balls) contribute to it's success by submitting pull requests. Thanks for listening, spread the link to the GitHub in all social media and places where potential developers and good Hackers hang out! ;-)