Any app testing advice for pipeline protesters encountering cellphone manipulation?

[Treer]

There are rumours of anti-cellphone technologies being deployed at the pipeline protest. Some protesters have been made aware of Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector and will try it at the site (example).

I've not found any instructions for non-specialist people to contribute to this project from a site where IMSI-Catchers are suspected to be running.

Is there anything they should know? Keep Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector debug logs and keep detailed timestamped notes of any odd phone behaviour you notice?

Perhaps there's little to be learned from IMSI-Catchers in the wild that are outside of a tester's control?

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[He3556]

Hello Treer thank you for opening this issue. There are Even-logs in the database when suspicious behavior is found. There are a few things to think about. I will send you an e-mail.

[eliorsterling]

I have a device JUST for running AIMSICD and SnoopSnitch. I haven't been taking screenshots of every incident that registers because I figured I could just download the database to my computer and send it on later. Now I'm having trouble figuring out how to do that (short of reading all the code and maybe writing a database importing script myself).

Is there currently any way to move the event-logs onto a computer so that they can be emailed and potentially used in court?

(I work for GWOB and we're cooperating with EFF on tracking surveillance happening at Standing Rock, so this is relevant to this particular thread.)

[mimi89999]

@lishevita If you have problems backing up the database, you could always backup AIMSICD using oandbackup (Backup manager) - https://f-droid.org/app/dk.jens.backup from F-Droid. (The data could then be restored on any device including an Android virtual device)

potentially used in court

I am not sure of that since AIMSICD is still experimental software.

[He3556]

I send an email 2 weeks ago but got no response so far. Is there somebody still working on this? As far as i know, ppl will go back to the pipeline somewhen in January. So we still have some time to check our app and maybe write a short HowTo.

[Treer]

@He3556 You sent me an email 2 weeks ago, but lishevita is the one to talk to.

Looking back, my Dec 10th reply went to to your other email address (you've used two).