On: Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls

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This reminds me of OpenBTS, the project to create an open-source GSM interface. A full dev kit costs about $2000.

http://openbts.sourceforge.net/

They've been using this system at Burning Man to operate a free experimental cell network:

http://pagalegba2010.wikispaces.com/PublicInformation

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The guy who gave this talk, Chris Paget, actually used OpenBTS in his demo.