The irony of this article being posted on a website that asks for location information from mobile users every time you visit.
Devices Which Track Cellphones, Intercept Calls Found All Over DC, MD, VA
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#12Curious what this magic software on the phone detecting the devices is doing, anyone have any insights?
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#13The willful negligence from our governments in the (in)security of our communications infrastructure is criminally obscene.
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#14What android app shows suspicious events?
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#15Android app: https://opensource.srlabs.de/projects/snoopsnitch/wiki/FAQ#W...
> SnoopSnitch offers tests to assess whether a device is exposed to attacks or surveillance from the mobile network. Here, the primary goal is to help mobile users detect network originated attacks, such as via SS7, SMS, or ISMI catchers. Our secondary goal is to provide a fact-based incentive to Mobile Network Operators to better improve the security of their networks.
GSM ratings: https://gsmmap.org/#!/about
> GSM Security Map compares the protection capabilities of mobile networks. Networks are rated in their protection capabilities relative to a reference network that implements all protection measures that have been seen “in the wild”. The reference is regularly updated to reflect new protection ideas becoming commercially available. Networks, therefore, have to improve continuously to maintain their score, just as hackers are continuously improving their capabilities.
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#16I don't understand the assertion that the US Gov't can't do anything to prevent the foreign governments from doing this... The FCC has broad powers to regulate the public airwaves. This technology clearly disturbes authorized and licensed utilizaton of the airwaves OUTSIDE of the bounds of the Embassies. FCC should have the power to prevent this.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or, Russian spies and other foreign entities listening to the conversations of U.S. Congressional staffers.
Would this be defeated by having those people use some encrypted voip?
You wouldn't get the contents, but you could tell who was talking to whom, when, and for how long.
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#18Heh. You know what I found most hilarious about this article? I went to it with my iPhone in safari and got asked to share my location. Who needs potential spy devices when all you need to do is compromise your local news site!
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#19Related article, "Feds: There are hostile stingrays in DC, but we don’t know how to find them" [0], and discussion [1] from 45d ago. [0]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/dhs-to-senator-m... [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16748971
Not knowing how to find them, is a load of crap. You can certainly find them, it just takes expensive equipment and time.
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#20I don't understand the assertion that the US Gov't can't do anything to prevent the foreign governments from doing this... The FCC has broad powers to regulate the public airwaves. This technology clearly disturbes authorized and licensed utilizaton of the airwaves OUTSIDE of the bounds of the Embassies. FCC should have the power to prevent this.
> I don't understand the assertion that the US Gov't can't do anything to prevent the foreign governments from doing this...
There has been zero evidence presented so far that it is in fact foreign governments doing any of this. More likely it's the vast cabal of Federal agencies in the greater DC area all disregarding the law because nobody in the US Congress has the will to rein them in. And of course for all we know, the espionage may be entirely legal courtesy of some clandestine national security FISA sign-off.
The US Government system is made up of dozens of extremely powerful agencies, and they are at war with each other at all times for power, information and budget. Sometimes that war is cold, sometimes it's warm.
Simply put, they're all spying on each other and all aspects of the system that is meant to control them (while they attempt to control the system instead).