Mysterious Fake Cellphone Towers Are Intercepting Calls All Over The US

[vienna]

If not the NSA, then who?:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mysterious-fake-cellphone-towers-intercepting-162645809.html

Interesting and disturbing, at once...


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[Admiral Halsey]

Thank god I don't own a cellphone!

[ikalugin]

I would have assumed that any calls between two different towers (ie if the customers are in two different hexes) are routed via fiber optics between those towers (ie via the common telecom grid), which is obviously NSA controlled.

So the only reason to do this would be to intercept call data for calls within the same cell, but this is easier made by forcing the operators to install relevant equipment.

[Wolferz]

It's mind control equipment.:huh:

[Rhodes]

Insert X-Files/Mulder picture please!

[Rockstar]

It's mind control equipment.:huh:


The voice inside my head told me to assure you it is not mind control equipment.

[Betonov]

I say they're pork barrel projects :O:

[vanjast]

So the only reason to do this would be to intercept call data for calls within the same cell, but this is easier made by forcing the operators to install relevant equipment.
Hokus Pokus... I'll raise the bar
You don't need fancy equipment... just filtering software on the digital interlinks redirected to your PC. I had already worked this out before cell phones got anywhere near your ears - so easy to do.
You can bet this was already installed before they put up the dinkum aerials..
:har:

[Platapus]

Is there evidence that these towers are actually intercepting the signal or just interfering with it?

[Buddahaid]

Don't you need an FCC license to operate something like that and a permit to build it in the first place? Seems someone should know.

[Dread Knot]

Firstly they are not actually towers, they are interceptors, which are basically just computers with an antenna, often referred to as "StingRays".

http://www.meganet.com/meganet-products-cellphoneinterceptors.html

Stingray devices are real enough, and they are used by law enforcement. But this does not equate to fake cell phone towers spying on all Americans. Stingray usage dates back several years:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424053111904194604576583112723197574

More likely the Yahoo article above is just a public relations exercise for the manufacturer of the "Cryptophone 500", which supposedly detected these 17 interceptors. Online commenters have suggested that what is being detected is likely just secure government private networks, such as might be used at military bases.

So, a business insider writes an article harping on legitimate current fears about eavesdropping and promotes bogus conspiracy theory to sell his product.

Shocker.

[Stealhead]

So, a business insider writes an article harping on legitimate current fears about eavesdropping and promotes bogus conspiracy theory to sell his product.

Shocker.

That about sums it up.

You can also simply do what drug dealers do which is buy a crap load of pre-pay phones and only use them once for "special" purposes aka "burners".

[Jimbuna]

The voice inside my head told me to assure you it is not mind control equipment.

There is only one fefence measure open to us...

http://s7.postimg.org/lhhdzmntn/image.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

[Wolferz]

I picked a bad time to run out of tin foil.:hmmm:

[vienna]

Curses, foiled again...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-0TEJMJOhk


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