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McKenzie’s case is emblematic of the growing, but hidden, use by local law enforcement of a sophisticated surveillance technology borrowed from the national security world. It shows how a gag order imposed by the FBI — on grounds that discussing the device’s operation would compromise its effectiveness — has left judges, the public and criminal defendants in the dark on how the tool works.

I feel so much safer knowing they are watching we the people rather than the real threats to our nation.

1 posted on 02/22/2015 8:39:26 PM PST by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

Cut him a deal cuz they didn’t want to divulge SOURCES & METHODS:

Know where THAT lingo comes from?

The freakin SPY WORLD...!

It has come home to roost on Main Street, America, and this is JUST THE BEGINNING.

They don’t want us to know about how Big Brother’s toys work.

I heard the long-term goal is to get Sting-Ray so small that it’s the same size as MOBILE PHONES..!


2 posted on 02/22/2015 8:42:37 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Second Amendment First

They[the police] are watching their enemy. At some point in time somewhere back, we, the ordinary law abiding Citizen became public enemy number one to them.


3 posted on 02/22/2015 8:45:46 PM PST by sport
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To: Second Amendment First

OK, this is a JWTF!!!


4 posted on 02/22/2015 8:47:05 PM PST by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: null and void

I see no possible way that this technology could be abused.


6 posted on 02/22/2015 8:49:00 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Ragnarok" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L5nD7-qsEw)
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To: Second Amendment First

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker


7 posted on 02/22/2015 8:49:54 PM PST by babygene
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To: Second Amendment First
Ohhh, such a big secret.

I plan to build one and track Obama's blackberry data without a warrant.
Who needs a stinking warrant anymore.

8 posted on 02/22/2015 8:51:32 PM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Second Amendment First

There is really nothing that high tech about it. It is a standard man in the middle attack. You set up a fake cell phone relay and send intercepted packets to the real tower.


9 posted on 02/22/2015 9:19:37 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If obama speaks and there is no one there to hear it, is it still a lie?)
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To: Second Amendment First

They reason they don’t want to discuss the device’s operation isn’t because that “would compromise its effectiveness.” The reason they don’t want to discuss it is because they are using the device to listen to everyone’s cell phone conversations without a warrant.


10 posted on 02/22/2015 9:25:03 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
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“feel so much safer knowing they are watching we the people rather than the real threats to our nation.”

You identify with armed robber dope head thugs and consider them “We the People?”


11 posted on 02/22/2015 9:51:34 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: Second Amendment First
Another reason I'm glad I don't own a cell phone.

And if I did, it would spend it's life inside a Faraday cage bag unless I wanted to make a call. Like this.

12 posted on 02/22/2015 10:00:03 PM PST by upchuck (The current Federal Governent is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V.)
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To: Second Amendment First

Should have been turned over to a court to be tried behind FBI/NSA firewalls. The fact that a judge compelled law enforcement to possibly turn over technology not belonging to them, seems to be worthy of the judge being disbarred and hauled into jail for trying to undermine national security.


13 posted on 02/22/2015 10:20:19 PM PST by Jumper
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To: Second Amendment First

I believe that these days cell phone tracking is the first tool used to solve a crime. ID every cell phone in the vicinity of a crime and eliminate from there.

claim you had other evidence (or use it to find surveillance cameras...but never admit you can ID criminals this way.


15 posted on 02/22/2015 11:02:47 PM PST by RFEngineer
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To: Second Amendment First

By the time they build a border fence it will be to keep us in.


17 posted on 02/23/2015 2:16:30 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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BKMK


20 posted on 02/23/2015 2:53:14 AM PST by Faith65 (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: Lazamataz

Ping


21 posted on 02/23/2015 3:41:36 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Second Amendment First

So what I need is a hack that emulates a billion and a half cell phones and overwhelms the device.


23 posted on 02/23/2015 4:52:55 AM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: Second Amendment First

It’s OK. It is only Samaritan that is doing the watching and listening.


28 posted on 02/23/2015 5:22:20 AM PST by Portcall24
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To: Second Amendment First; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ..

The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

29 posted on 02/23/2015 6:58:16 AM PST by null and void (People who deny history are trying to recreate it.)
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