Secure phones find 17 cell towers of unknown origin

ITWorld ^ | September 03, 2014 | Andy Patrizio

[Gasshog]

Why would one be in Asheville? There’s nothing there except a bunch of washed out hippies.

Slightly better than UNwashed hippies.

[Jet Jaguar]

I like you way you think. My thought as well.

[LucyT]

Check out article and # 36.

Thanks, Jet Jaguar.

[BenLurkin]

Mystery cell towers, missing foreigner “students with expired visas, Muslims recruiting for ISIS in CONUS.

What exactly does DHS do with all its resources — other than target the TEA party.

[Axenolith]

You can detect stealth aircraft by the “wake” they leave in the overall signal field. Maybe it has to do with that.

[Iron Munro]

Probably installed by the NSA or some other unconstitutional Big Brother freedom grabber.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Hussein’s big ears...

[sweetiepiezer]

Where did you get the map?

[Drew68]

This has NSA written all over it.

This has "buy our secure cellphone" advertisement written all over it.

[_Jim]

"In active mode, the StingRay will force each compatible cellular device in a given area to disconnect from its service provider cell site (i.e., operated by Verizon, AT&T, etc.) and establish a new connection with the StingRay.[12] "

Only on account of the Stingray being setup on the (and ostensibly 'overriding' the original) control channel the phone *was* parked on ... there is nothing intrinsically in the protocol (since the phishers would have to be active in the network to accomplish this) to 'force' the phone off one CC to another ...

[_Jim]

"Edward Snowden revealed that the N.S.A. is capable of an over-the-air attack that tells the phone to fake a shut-down while leaving the microphone running, turning the seemingly deactivated phone into a bug."

Trivially easy to detect, too.

1) Battery life of the phone is going to nosedive AND 2) placing an AM band transistor radio near the phone will reveal that 'soft' pulse sound TDMA/GSM phones are known for 'inducing' in nearby electronic gear when the phone is 'active' and transmitting ...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

My only point was that for $999 + tax you, too, can run your own “cell tower.”

[SuziQ]

Take one down, and see who complains about it.

Heh. That's what hubby said, too!