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Rayhunter in Canada (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by spinning_disk_engineer@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I am trying to get rayhunter, but I am confused about a few things. What kind of hardware may be used? The Orbic RC400L advertises itself as being for Verizon network only, which I am not going to use. Does the rayhunter software allow it to work on arbitrary networks?

Furthermore, I don't see a good way to acquire such a device. They aren't sold locally as far as I can tell. On amazon they are available, though expensive. However, that would mean losing any form of privacy. I don't need it to be completely anonymous—someone looking at the location could probably see home and work easily enough—but better than amazon would be much preferred.

Are there any alternate devices that are known to work well in Canada? I will be keeping the device powered off most of the time anyways, (so as to hide my location) but it must be reliable when I need it.

EDIT: eSIM support is a plus, but not required

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[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

To save some googling for other people: Rayhunter is an initiative to identify when simulated cell towers are being used for surveillance.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying?language=en

I would be surprised if there are other devices for it. I think you'll want to look at what network bands Verizon uses and see what that corresponds to in Canada. But I really don't know.