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Secure phones find 17 cell towers of unknown origin
ITWorld ^
| September 03, 2014
| Andy Patrizio
Posted on 09/03/2014 7:36:16 PM PDT by gunsmithkat
A secure cell phone maker has uncovered more than a dozen cell phone towers around the U.S. that no one seems to know who owns them and no one is sure how they get installed.
The towers were uncovered by ESD America, which built the CryptoPhone 500, a highly modified Galaxy S III secured phone with end-to-end encryption and firewall protection of its baseband chip, plus its own custom Android distribution with many vulnerabilities the ESD team found and removed.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: cell; phone; towers
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To: Gritty
Why would one be in Asheville? Theres nothing there except a bunch of washed out hippies.
Slightly better than UNwashed hippies.
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posted on
09/03/2014 9:04:48 PM PDT
by
Gasshog
(DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Stuff World)
To: Cen-Tejas; LucyT
I like you way you think. My thought as well.
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posted on
09/03/2014 9:10:01 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: Jet Jaguar; null and void; Velveeta; Rushmore Rocks; Oorang; Myrddin; MamaDearest; autumnraine; ...
Check out article and # 36.
Thanks, Jet Jaguar.
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posted on
09/03/2014 9:25:35 PM PDT
by
LucyT
To: gunsmithkat
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.
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posted on
09/03/2014 9:36:12 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
You can detect stealth aircraft by the “wake” they leave in the overall signal field. Maybe it has to do with that.
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posted on
09/03/2014 11:10:27 PM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: gunsmithkat
Probably installed by the NSA or some other unconstitutional Big Brother freedom grabber.
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posted on
09/04/2014 2:51:39 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Why democrat voters are like sperm: Only 1 in a million work.)
To: gunsmithkat
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posted on
09/04/2014 4:22:58 AM PDT
by
Hotlanta Mike
(‘You can avoid reality, but you can’t avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.’)
To: eyedigress
Where did you get the map?
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posted on
09/04/2014 6:30:46 AM PDT
by
sweetiepiezer
(MY COUNTRY WAS OF THEE!!!!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
This has NSA written all over it. This has "buy our secure cellphone" advertisement written all over it.
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posted on
09/04/2014 6:39:45 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: E. Pluribus Unum
"
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 ...
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posted on
09/05/2014 10:40:53 AM PDT
by
_Jim
(Conspiracy theories are the favored tools of the weak-minded.)
To: TChad
"
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 ...
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posted on
09/05/2014 10:47:08 AM PDT
by
_Jim
(Conspiracy theories are the favored tools of the weak-minded.)
To: _Jim
My only point was that for $999 + tax you, too, can run your own “cell tower.”
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posted on
09/05/2014 10:55:22 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
To: PGR88
Take one down, and see who complains about it.Heh. That's what hubby said, too!
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posted on
09/05/2014 6:03:49 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
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