Since my last post, the Rayhunter project has made significant progress.

Introduction#

The patches for the TP-Link M7350 router have been merged into the upstream Rayhunter repository and the device is listed as recommended for European users. m0veax gave a talk on the project at the MRMCD, which presented great insights into how the development happened. I can highly recommend watching the talk if you are interested in the project.

Updating Rayhunter#

As the TP-Link M7350 patches have been merged, running a custom build is no longer necessary to use Rayhunter on this device. As such, I removed the old version of Rayhunter on my device and simply used the installer from the latest version from the repository (0.10.1 as of writing this post). I had an issue that the installer did not create a default configuration file, so I had to create one myself, where I simply set device = "tplink".

New features#

The latest version has made quite a lot of improvements:

• New heuristics
• Improved web interface
• On-device animation / logos

New heuristics#

The most important new feature is the new heuristics. Read up on the heuristics in the Rayhunter documentation. I have not yet encountered any warnings, but I will continue to run Rayhunter and report any findings.

New web interface#

The web interface has been improved significantly with a new design and better usability.

On-device logos#

It is now possible to display various logos and animations on the device's screen.

Conclusion#

Thanks to the great work of everyone involved, stingray detectors are now more accessible than ever. This project is making very good progress. I recommend everyone to watch m0veax's talk and read EFFs post on the Rayhunter.