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Fake Ass Cellphone Towers Are Intercepting Calls All Over The US

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Mysterious Fake Cellphone Towers Are Intercepting Calls All Over The US

Seventeen fake cellphone towers were discovered across the U.S. last week, according to a report in Popular Science.

Rather than offering you cellphone service, the towers appear to be connecting to nearby phones, bypassing their encryption, and either tapping calls or reading texts.

Les Goldsmith, the CEO of ESD America, used ESD's CryptoPhone 500 to detect 17 bogus cellphone towers. ESD is a leading American defense and law enforcement technology provider based in Las Vegas.

With most phones, these fake communication towers are undetectable. But not for the CryptoPhone 500, a customized Android device that is disguised as a Samsung Galaxy S III but has highly advanced encryption.

Goldsmith told Popular Science: " Interceptor use in the U.S. is much higher than people had anticipated. One of our customers took a road trip from Florida to North Carolina and he found eight different interceptors on that trip. We even found one at South Point Casino in Las Vegas.?

The towers were found in July, but the report implied that there may have been more out there.

Although it is unclear who owns the towers, ESD found that several of them were located near U.S. military bases.

"Whose interceptor is it? Who are they, that's listening to calls around military bases? Is it just the U.S. military, or are they foreign governments doing it? The point is: we don't really know whose they are," Goldsmith said to Popular Science.

It's probably not the NSA ? that agency can tap all it wants without the need for bogus towers, VentureBeat reported:

Not the NSA, cloud security firm SilverSky CTO/SVP Andrew Jaquith told us. ?The NSA doesn?t need a fake tower,? he said. ?They can just go to the carrier? to tap your line.

ComputerWorld points out that the fake towers give themselves away by crushing down the performance of your phone from 4G to 2G while the intercept is taking place. So if you see your phone operating on a slow download signal while you're near a military base ... maybe make that call from somewhere else.

In an amazing coincidence, police departments in a handful of U.S. cities have been operating "Stingray" or "Hailstorm" towers, which ? you guessed it ? conduct surveillance on mobile phone activity. They do that by jamming mobile phone signals, forcing phones to drop down from 4G and 3G network bands to the older, more insecure 2G band.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/myster...162645809.html

The hell is this shit? Get the fuck off my phone Obama!

Wow, land of the free, I mean 2G. wtf? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Cartels in Mexico run their own towers for the own fucking broadcast systems. Maybe some of these towers belong to them? US is disintegrating into estados unidos faster than i thought.

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Originally Posted by ING82 (Post 20217586)

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/myster...162645809.html

The hell is this shit? Get the fuck off my phone Obama!

When the government wanna listen to your calls, it does it via direct connection to the cell-operator servers. There is no need to "intercept" anything from the air.

P.S. Every government does this by the way. Not just yours :2 cents:

you let them do what ever they want america?
god knows what agency do this, who allowed them such shit

There is also another issue at play.. It's also been shown the local law enforcement are running their own towers that are used to collect meta data of all phones that connect to it. Basically they don't have access to your calls but they know when and where you were at x time if your phone connected to any of these towers.

These towers are called stingray and they are developed in my home town in FL by Harris corp.. Ironically Harris corp also developed the first radar guns.

Little bit of info on the stingray towers and where they are,. https://www.aclu.org/maps/stingray-t...-whos-got-them

Between cop cars that track license plates, fake cell towers, it's becoming next to impossible to stay anonymous.. Now with the fed govt doing it as well, you can pretty much assume you have zero privacy with any cellular electronic device that connect to a network.

I read about that on zite, its always strange, these towers pop up and no one knows anything about them

So why doesn't someone go knock one down and see who comes to fix it? Lol

Are they on private, public or government land? Article just says "near" bases. If south point has one, ask them?

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Originally Posted by TidalWave (Post 20217760)

So why doesn't someone go knock one down and see who comes to fix it? Lol

Best solution right there. :thumbsup

Maybe US military is tapping phones near bases to survey calls around them?

It's quite unlikely that they wouldn't know about the towers. Also, messing with communication systems is illegal pretty much everywhere, so it really doesn't matter on whose land the towers are, as it would be illegal anyways for regular John Doe.

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Originally Posted by TidalWave (Post 20217760)

So why doesn't someone go knock one down and see who comes to fix it? Lol

:thumbsup or arrest you ...

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Originally Posted by aka123 (Post 20217895)

Tapping our calls and txts is also illegal. No one has to know who knocked it over.
Obviously they are doing this shit in secret and illegally, just pay it forward.

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Originally Posted by TidalWave (Post 20217942)

Tapping our calls and txts is also illegal. No one has to know who knocked it over.
Obviously they are doing this shit in secret and illegally, just pay it forward.

You have all kind of terrorism laws, I guess those make lot of things legal.

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Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 20217945)

I fucking knew they were fake!

http://blog.historian4hire.net/wp-co...5/va-hi-02.jpg

Oh no, Santa too?

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Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 20217945)

I fucking knew they were fake!

http://blog.historian4hire.net/wp-co...5/va-hi-02.jpg

I saw one of those