Comments on: GEO-tracking Mobile Phones

By: Android - Poor man’s “My Location” (Show current cell location) « Show me the code!

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:26:37 +0000

[...] Address Now the question is how do we get an address information from the cellid/lac/mnc/mcc. The GNUCITIZEN site has a nice tip on how to use the ZoneTag API from Yahoo. So we construct a nice URL with the [...]

By: pdp

pdp — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:47:19 +0000

Here is a video that describes the same technique but in a bit more visual way, of course, without too much of tech information:

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:21:14 +0000

There used to be a related hack for the Motorola E1 Rokr phone, involving a modified copy of iTunes. It knew which SIM was supposed to be in the phone; if the SIM changed (i.e. it was stolen, and the SIM replaced) it would start silently SMS’ing a user-definable list of numbers with the current cell tower details (and obviously its new phone number).

By: Griflet

Griflet — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:30:25 +0000

Hello GNUcitizens,

I enjoy a lot all your ideas and your work. Personally, I’d love to track my phone without the use of a GPS. I’d like to instantly see my track on gmaps on my mobile. I would also like to add exif data with the approx. coords. to the snapshots I take with it. Can you show us the way?

Keep up the creativity and art flowing,
Guillaume

By: Adrian Pastor

Adrian Pastor — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:32:16 +0000

Definitely a payload worth it including on a exploit.

However, I can also see legitimate purposes for this. For instance, why pay a commercial service to track you mobile (in case it gets stolen or you want your family to know where you are), when you can code a small application which retrieves the cell data and translates it to a geographical location using a web service?

Just another application of this technique worth it considering.

By: pdp

pdp — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:39:11 +0000

nice one, so now all you need is a way to get this information out on a regular basis and you have a bug!

By: HD

HD — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:29:10 +0000

This is how you do it on the iPhone:
http://iphone-wireless.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/CellStumbler/

By: djteller

djteller — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:31:25 +0000

I smell a new Payload :)

Reverse Shell, Bind Shell, Geo-Tracker :)

By: Ghillie Suits » GEO-tracking Mobile Phones

Ghillie Suits » GEO-tracking Mobile Phones — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:54:04 +0000

[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerpt, the attacker can use something like Google Maps API or preferably Microsoft s Live Maps Birds Eye [...]