[Noisebridge-discuss] Anyone want to hack some BlackBerrys?

[Danny O'Brien]

Yeah, I remember someone having one running at NB, which is why I asked. Is
it still around?


On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Matt Joyce <matt at nycresistor.com> wrote:

> Look at an openbts style solution.  Imho.
>
> On Aug 5, 2010 6:17 AM, "Danny O'Brien" <danny at spesh.com> wrote:
>
> As part of my job, I've been looking at RIM's BlackBerry messagin systems
> and how safe they are to use by people at risk of surveillance by
> governments or large criminal concerns (as a spin-off from the UAE
> threatening to ban them, and my provisional look at the situation here:
> http://cpj.org/blog/2010/08/why-governments-dont-need-to-crack-the-blackberry.php).
>
> I've pored over documentation and spoken to experts and done a lot of
> thinking. To find out the truth, though,  I need to actually work out what
> the hell a BB sends on the wire (welll, the wireless wire – and I'm not sure
> intercepting WiFi via Wireshark will work, it has to be a bona fide cell
> phone network) when it's using a telco operator provided service (as opposed
> to RIM's enterprise messaging offerings).
>
> Anyone want to help? I can supply a bunch of veery specific questions, and
> some petty cash to buy stuff like a developer's signing key if we need it. I
> don't have a BlackBerry to practice on, though, which is the first obvious
> step.
>
> d.
>
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