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Post by avordvet on Feb 27, 2017 16:14:52 GMT -5
The StingRay Is Exactly Why the 4th Amendment Was WrittenOlivia Donaldson, Monday, February 13, 2017 Imagine you are in the middle of your typical day-to-day activities. Maybe you are driving, spending time with family, or working. If you are like most people, your phone is at your side on a daily basis. Little do you know that, at any time, police and law enforcement could be looking at information stored on your phone. You haven't done anything wrong. You haven't been asked for permission. You aren't suspected of any crime. The StingRay Police have the power to collect your location along with the numbers of your incoming and outgoing calls and intercept the content of call and text communication. They can do all of this without you ever knowing about it. How? They use a shoebox-sized device called a StingRay. This device (also called an IMSI catcher) mimics cell phone towers, prompting all the phones in the area to connect to it even if the phones aren't in use. fee.org/articles/the-stingray-is-exactly-why-the-4th-amendment-was-written/
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Post by avordvet on Aug 21, 2017 5:10:06 GMT -5
Those Free Stingray-Detector Apps? Yeah, Spies Could Outsmart ThemAndy Greenberg, 08.14.17 07:00 am As smartphone users have become more aware that fake cell phone towers, known as IMSI catchers or stingrays, can spy on them, developers have rushed to offer apps that detect when your phone connects to one. Unfortunately, it seems, those tools aren't as effective as they claim. Watching the watchers turns out to be a complicated business. Researchers from Oxford University and the Technical University of Berlin today plan to present the results of a study of five stingray-detection apps. The results aren't encouraging. In fact, they found they could fully circumvent each one, allowing the researchers to trick the phones into handing over their sensitive data. www.wired.com/story/stingray-detector-apps/
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