From: azur@netcom.com (Steve Schear)
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 23:29:43 -0800 (PST)
To: Brian Lane <nexus@eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: Newt's phone calls
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>On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Steve Schear wrote:
>
>> Yes, you need a device which can simultaneously listen to the
>> paging/controll channels and determine, when a handoff to a monitored
>> conversation occurs,to  which new channel pair they have been assigned.  I
>> seem to recall such a device was for sale a few years back using a ISA/EISA
>> card and some DOS compatible software.  It connected to the ubiquitous and
>> well characterized Oki 900 cell phone.
>
>  I've also heard that some have hacked cellphones so that they can
>become a 'clone' of an existing phone, receiving all commands to swap
>channels, etc. But not sending anything back to the cell sites. (This is
>different from the usual cloning that goes on where they duplicate the
>phone and use it to run up enormous bills). I haven't found any concrete
>refrences to this in my recent browsing though, so it may just be a
>vapor-hack.
>
>  Brian
>

Try: http://www.l0pht.com/~drwho/cell/oki/oki-ctek.html

as a starting point.

--Steve