Development Status

This is the current Development Status of our Android IMSI-Catcher Detector.

• ⚠️ Development Roadmap with ALPHA & BETA stage as well as GOLDEN age.

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Already accomplished

Views (short explantation of the main views):

• Main Screen: Information about Device, Network and SIM-Card
• Cell Information: Relevant variables using public AOS API calls (LAC, CID, Signal Strength)
• Database Viewer: Data collected by the phone and from public DB of Cell Towers
• Map Viewer: Shows Cell-Towers from the public database that are in your area

Functions:

• Cell-Monitoring: Collects information about the cell towers you are/were connected to and saves it in the local database
• Cell Tracking: Tracks your position while you are connected to the cell-tower and saves it with cell data in the local database
• Download data from public cell-tower database (right now only from OpenCellID)
• Position Tracking: Using the GPS-Sensor and Google Location Service

Detection:

• Changing LAC: Check if the LAC of a Cell-ID is changing

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Working on right now

• Check Cell-ID’s collected by the phone against public Cell-Tower Database
• Neighboring Cell Info: #100
• AT-Command Processor: Send AT-Commands to the Baseband Processor #23
• Detection of Silent SMS (Type-0): #69
• Specifications of code modularization (for development clarity)
• Restructuring of DB to allow for more Network variables (for development clarity)
• Separate DEbugging menu with much better way to create useable logcats: #164

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Prepared working packages (ready to be picked up)

• Detection of changing Signal Strength: Besides implementation, this needs lot’s of reasearch and testing, if this is a possible way for detection and how it works on different phones (meassurement of signal strength) (more details)
• Switch from Google Location Servic (Google Play Service) to another API
• Implement the use of other public Cell-Tower Databases API‘s