Starvin Larry

Seems like your average, everyday grocery getter, right?

Yeah, social engineering is fun, eh?

It houses open source SDR software and hardware not too different from “other” SIGINT programs .gov uses.

Interesting article and an interesting video from the developer– well worth your time. And while this exercise’s goal was to prove a couple points- being that cell phone SIGINT can be done relatively cheap when open sourced, and to prove that you are indeed being spied upon- the pointers given are not far out of reach, and can be done for far less than his $5000 price tag if one is more concerned with the simpler tactical communications realm of two way communications.

It can be as simple or as complicated as you want to make it, but SDR is an amazingly powerful piece of kit and an incredible frontier, and the options are nearly limitless. There’s no…