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# messenger of god
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tl;dr Intercepted GSM traffic to send a text message from "God" to everyone on the commercial GSM network
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Collaboration with [Dan Moore](makeitdoathing.com) and [Nicholas Johnson](http://www.nejohnson2.com/telesource) at arthackday:godmode
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The Messenger of God was an experiment in GSM and GSM traffic interception.
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The purpose of this installation was to demonstrate how we should not have unfettered faith in our mobile
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devices and how anyone can intercept or disrupt the public GSM cell phone network.
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The piece consisted of an openBTS installation on an Ubuntu linux machine, a software define radio
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(an Ettus Research USRP B100), and some node.js. With this hardware/software combination we had our own
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reconfigurable GSM cell phone tower inside the gallery.
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We configured our network to represent itself as the commercial GSM service provider : < redacted >.
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We created a web interface to openBTS allowing the audience to broadcast sms messages to every device
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registered to the network.
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Over the course of the night we were able to automatically register 45+ devices on our GSM network and
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transmit countless messages.
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If you'd like to hijack a gsm network, dan more explains how [in this talk](https://web.archive.org/web/20160805000440/http://www.makeitdoathing.com/gsm.html) |