Why It’s So Hard to Say Who Is Using an IMSI Catcher
Israel, China, Russia? Who was using a surveillance device on Parliament Hill in Ottawa? Continue reading Why It’s So Hard to Say Who Is Using an IMSI Catcher
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Here’s a Picture of a Phone-Tracking Device That We’ve Never Seen in the Wild
The leaked picture confirms that cops and feds hide these powerful surveillance devices inside police cars. Continue reading Here’s a Picture of a Phone-Tracking Device That We’ve Never Seen in the Wild
Who needs a Stingray when Wi-Fi can do the job?
Ordinary Wi-Fi hotspots can be used to extract indentifiers from your cellphone, researchers have found Continue reading Who needs a Stingray when Wi-Fi can do the job?
Stealth Cell Tower Inside This Office Printer Calls to Say I Love You
If you look around the street furniture of your city, you may notice some ingenious attempts to disguise cell towers. There are fake trees, lamp posts with bulges, and plenty you won’t even be aware of concealed within commercial signage. The same people who are often the first to complain when they have no signal it seems do not want to be reminded how that signal reaches them. On a more sinister note, government agencies have been known to make use of fake cell towers of a different kind, those which impersonate legitimate towers in order to track and intercept …read more
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AT&T Spies on Customer; Sells Data to the Government: Report
Looks like AT&T is impressed with NSA-like surveillance tactics — That’s
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Hackaday Prize Entry: Catch The IMSI Catchers
An IMSI catcher is an illicit mobile phone base station designed to intercept the traffic from nearby mobile phones by persuading them to connect to it rather than the real phone company tower. The IMSI in the name stands for International Mobile Subscriber Identity, a unique global identifier that all mobile phones have. IMSI catchers are typically used by government agencies to detect and track people at particular locations, and are thus the subject of some controversy.
As is so often the case when a piece of surveillance technology is used in a controversial manner there is a counter-effort against …read more
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Edmonton Police Say They Didn’t Mean It When They Said They Own a Stingray
Edmonton Police Admit to Owning Stingray Surveillance Device
This is the first time local police have copped to owning the devices. Continue reading Edmonton Police Admit to Owning Stingray Surveillance Device
Local Police In Canada Used ‘Stingray’ Surveillance Device Without a Warrant
This is bigger than we thought. Continue reading Local Police In Canada Used ‘Stingray’ Surveillance Device Without a Warrant
How To Detect And Find Rogue Cell Towers
Software defined radios are getting better and better all the time. The balaclava-wearing hackers know it, too. From what we saw at HOPE in New York a few weeks ago, we’re just months away from being able to put a femtocell in a desktop computer for under $3,000. In less than a year, evil, bad hackers could be tapping into your cell phone or reading your text message from the comfort of a van parked across the street. You should be scared, even though police departments everywhere and every government agency already has this capability.
These rogue cell sites have …read more
