[CSS-research] Hello and welcome to the Cell Site Simulator Research mailing list

[Eric Null]

Hi Cooper, thanks for getting this started and thanks to Yomna for
compiling the resources.

Hello mailing list! I'm Eric Null, a broadband policy attorney at New
America's Open Technology Institute. IMSI catchers/surveillance tech makes
up a small portion of my work (mostly because OTI has its own security
policy team), but I'm happy to be on this list so I can learn more about
what's happening.

One thing I wanted to mention is that we (OTI and two other orgs) filed a
complaint last year at the FCC
<https://www.newamerica.org/oti/press-releases/oti-and-others-file-stingray-complaint-against-baltimore-city-police-department/>
arguing that Baltimore PD's use of IMSI catchers violated the
Communications Act (the complaint has some fun maps/data viz in it!). We
had some meetings in late 2016, but even under a Dem administration it was
difficult to get them to move. Needless to say, under Trump's FCC chairman,
we'd probably get bad precedent if the FCC acted on it, so we're no longer
pushing it for the time being.

Anyway, thanks everyone!

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Cooper Quintin <cooperq at eff.org> wrote:

> Hello and welcome to the Cell Site Simulator Research mailing list!
>
> I am a senior staff technologist at EFF on our Cybersecurity Team. For
> the last year or so I have been studying—among other things—Cell Site
> Simulators (IMSI catchers) and their use against activists in the United
> States.
>
> Since I began researching IMSI catchers some time last year I have made
> contact with many other researchers and organizations. What I have
> discovered is that many of those people are working along the same lines
> but not sharing knowledge, ending up in a situation where people are
> duplicating each other's work, or solving problems which have already
> been solved.
>
> The goal of this working group will be to bring everyone working on IMSI
> catcher detection technology and IMSI catcher policy strategies
> together, so as to not duplicate each other's current and past work. We
> can also share our findings and strategies with each other which will
> hopefully multiply our effectiveness.
>
> To start with, here is a list of relevant literature and videos that my
> colleague Yomna compiled, along with descriptions and ratings for most
> of them.
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/10cDNl3qnmi_
> MFU66JcdKEXWyQVZDRIsPCPAMHWzuQqU/edit#
>
> I think a good next step might be a round of introductions (for anyone
> who wants to do so) and a bit about what we have all been working on. I
> will do so for myself in a separate thread.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Cooper Quintin
> Senior Staff Technologist | EFF
> PGP: 75FB 9347 FA4B 22A0 5068 080B D0EA 7B6F F0AF E2CA
> Twitter: @cooperq
> _______________________________________________
> CSS-research mailing list
> CSS-research at eff.org
> https://lists.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/css-research
>



-- 
Eric Null
Policy Counsel
New America's Open Technology Institute
740 15th Street NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 596-3493
@ericnull
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.eff.org/pipermail/css-research/attachments/20171114/8557827c/attachment.html>