AIMSICDL

Android IMSI-Catcher Detector Lite (AIMSICDL)

Note: AIMSICDL is a reboot of the original AIMSICD project but focusing on a core, simple set of features that actually work. See this issue for the rationale behind the movement.

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AIMSCIDL detects IMSI-Catchers. IMSI-Catchers are false mobile towers (base stations) acting between the target mobile phone(s) and the real towers of service providers. As such they are considered a Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attack. In the USA the IMSI-Catcher technology is known under the name “StingRay”. Find out more in our WIKI.

The app aims to provide two main features with respect to IMSI-Catchers:

• Primarily offer live & active detection of IMSI-Catchers being deployed nearby
• Secondarily collect data for later analysis and inspection

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Index

• What it does
• Why use it
• Contributing
• Bug Tracker
• Warnings
• Research
• Support
• WIKI
• FAQ

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What it does

AIMSICDL attempts to detect IMSI-Catchers through such as these:

• TODO

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Why use it

The FBI or local police regularly deploys IMSI-Catchers hidden in vehicles at protests to obtain a record of everyone who attended with a cell phone (leave your phones at home by all means if you really have to attend). IMSI-Catchers also allow adversaries to intercept your conversations, text messages, and data. Police can use them to determine your location or to find out who is in a given geographic area at what time. Identity thieves can use freely available tools to monitor and manipulate communications from a parked car in your residential neighborhood; notably for stealing passwords or credit card data from people nearby who make purchases on their phones.

The reason IMSI-Catchers are so commonly used is that it is very easy to get away with using them traceless. This app aims to make it possible to detect the IMSI-Catchers so that using them becomes a risky proposition. It also aims to make users safer by alerting on possible interception and tracking.

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Warnings

Do not rely on AIMSICDL for real life scenarios that involve serious risk! Leave your cell at home.

Please read our Disclaimer! This app does not:

• Provide secure phone calls
• Provide secure data transmission
• Provide app permission control
• Provide secure application sand-boxing
• Provide Android root and remove bloatware
• Provide secure SMS
• Provide firewalls
• Provide full device encryption
• Prevent already installed rogue apps from full access and spying

Solutions for the above may be found in our Recommendations.

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Support

Although this project is fully Open Source, developing AIMSICDL is a lot of work and done by enthusiastic people during their free time. If you’re a developer yourself, we welcome you with open arms!

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License

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Credits & Greetings

Our project would not have been possible without these awesome people. Thanks to the original AIMSICD project.