An engineer has shown how you can sneak a tiny cellphone base station into an innocuous office printer.
The idea is the brainchild of New Zealand’s Julian Oliver, who was inspired by the Stingray cellphone snooping technology now in widespread use by the cops and FBI. He was looking to see how such tech could be hidden and what better to do this in than the humble office.
The printer still does its main job of spewing out documents, but now – using code Oliver developed and published – it also acts as a fake cellphone tower that detects and communicates with nearby phones and sends them SMS messages