From fca59bea770346cf1c1f9b0e00cb48a61b44a8f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Harald Welte Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 21:00:20 +0100 Subject: import of old now defunct presentation slides svn repo --- 2010/osmocombb-hashdays2010/abstract.txt | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2010/osmocombb-hashdays2010/abstract.txt (limited to '2010/osmocombb-hashdays2010/abstract.txt') diff --git a/2010/osmocombb-hashdays2010/abstract.txt b/2010/osmocombb-hashdays2010/abstract.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..84b900a --- /dev/null +++ b/2010/osmocombb-hashdays2010/abstract.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +OsmocomBB: Protocol stack and baesband firmware for GSM mobile phones + +By: Harald Welte[1] + +The OsmocomBB project[2] is a Free Software implementation of the GSM +protocol stack running on a mobile phone. + +For decades, the cellular industry comprised by cellphone chipset makers and +network operators keep their hardware and system-level software as well as GSM +protocol stack implementations closed. As a result, it was never possible +to send arbitrary data at the lower levels of the GSM protocol stack. +Existing phones only allow application-level data to be user-supplied, such as +SMS messages, IP over GPRS or circuit-switched data (CSD). + +Using OsmocomBB, the Free Software enethusiast as well as the security +researcher finally has a tool equivalent to an Ethernet card in the TCP/IP +protocol world: A simple transceiver that will send arbitrary protocol +messages to a GSM network. + +By the time Linux Kongress 2010 is held, it is expected that OsmocomBB +has proceeded to a level where it can make actual phone calls on any +GSM network. + +[1] http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ +[2] http://bb.osmocom.org/ -- cgit v1.2.3