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Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying (www.eff.org)
submitted 1 week ago by Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Just got mine and getting this error. Would appreciate any support you nerds can give me because I don't have a Github account:

Using adb at ./platform-tools/adb Force a switch into the debug mode to enable ADB /Applications/release/install-common.sh: line 20: ./serial-macos-latest/serial: Bad CPU type in executable

Edit: Installed via Linux, here's what the UI looks like

There's now a green line going across the top of the display and apparently if it detects any problems the line will turn red. Still no idea how I get that info back to the EFF though.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bad CPU type in executable

Do you use an Apple Silicon Mac by any chance?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Can I message you on Matrix to help you diagnose this?

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's the other way around, an Apple Silicon Mac would be able to run an intel binary through Rosetta (I think there's almost no exceptions at this point). It's intel macs that can't run Arm specific binaries.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You're right, I forgot about that

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it needs special hardware to run on:

It is developed to run on an Orbic mobile hotspot (Amazon, Ebay) which is available for $20 or less at the time of this writing.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's what I'm trying to run it on.

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, right, you did say "just got mine"... Never mind me. It does seem like it could be a mismatch between what the adb was compiled for and what it's being asked to install on.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From what's written here, it appears you have an Intel Mac and the thing has only ARM Mac executable, or the other way around.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It didn't mention anything about the CPU in the install instructions...

I guess I'll give it a try on my Linux machine.

Edit: Linux install was successful

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

It didn’t mention anything about the CPU in the install instructions…

Try locating the binary that crashes with the "Bad CPU type" exception and run the file command on it. It will show you which architecture the binary was built for.

Edit: Linux install was successful

That's good to hear