[ale] Iridium phones

[DJ-Pfulio]

Well, there is always this:
 https://thehackernews.com/2017/07/satellite-phone-encryption.html
and
 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/23/sat_comm_vulns/
and
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKaC4pNvck

I remember seeing a security conference talk about some guys who
captured multiple channels for hours and decrypted the comms - they only
heard 1-side of the conversation (the part talking down to their area of
the world), but the sentences were pretty telling.  War operations. Drug
deals, stuff like that - at least in their presentation.  Someone on an
island ordering a replacement generator isn't nearly as interesting.

BTW, cell phone encryption is worse.

On 02/02/2018 08:52 AM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> Neither Iridium unit has a charger :-(
> 
> But there are chargers for the qualcoms. Globalstar is their service. I
> charged one last night and it powered up. If I stand in the middle of my
> street it connects to the globalstar satellite network. Of course it has
> no account so I couldn't make a call.
> 
> Sure, one is yours :-)
> 
> On February 2, 2018 8:03:47 AM EST, Jonathan Meek
> <jonathan.l.meek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     Hey Jim,
>     Are they in working order and you would be willing to part with one?
>     I have family in Puerto Rico and we have been looking for a sat
>     phone for my grandmother to have in case another hurricane Maria
>     occurs to keep some line of communication open.
> 
>     Regards,
> 
>     Jonathan
> 
>     On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 11:25 PM, Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org
>     <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> 
>         Noted! Might be better ways to light up a target than "aim for
>         my phone signal" :-)
> 
>         On February 1, 2018 9:04:23 PM EST, Pete Hardie
>         <pete.hardie at gmail.com <mailto:pete.hardie at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>             Call in a CIA sanctioned airstrike?
> 
>             On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 8:59 PM, Jim Kinney via Ale
>             <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> 
>                 I scored a couple of iridium phones (no chargers) and
>                 some qualcom sat phones (with chargers). Surely this
>                 haul is hack toy gold.
> 
>                 Ideas?