FBI tells police dept to drop charges rather than give info on the Stingray system..
 

FBI lets suspects go to protect 'Stingray' secrets | KSL.com

This is pretty fucked up. Stingrays are fake cell towers which harvest information from every cell phone which is with-in it's range. It's obvious mass spying which is used primarily by police forces around the country. They are tracking your location with out a warrant by tracking your cell phone location. Supposedly they can track you down to a specific room with this system.

They are made by Harris corp which is in my home town and it's where they were developed. My uncle was the Vice President of Radiation, which eventually changed names to become Harris corp. They developed the first police radar guns way back then, which I have never forgiven him for, but they have a long history of developing things like this.

Anyway.. they are part of the domestic spying problem it seems..

Stingrays? why couldn't they be named Mustangs or a car I don't like?


all kidding aside that is crazy but I'm not as surprised as I thought I'd be. :disgust

time to find my old pager and payphones

About a month ago I was staying at a Residence Inn in Melbourne and decided to take a late walk before going to bed. Behind the Hotel was a huge building a couple city blocks long I thought was a mall so I started to walk in front of it. I immediately noticed heavy security, airport style entrance doors, then a security team started to cruise behind me. I cut across back to the main street and continued my walk. It was the Harris Corp.


I wondered what the hell they did, that's fucked up. The next generations of Americans are in for some real interesting times.

My little studio office is across the street from a Harris Corp building. It's set up the same way. They have their own security vehicles and everything.

the good news is if you are busted for something your defense can be they used stingray and you'll have the charges dropped.

they have buildings all over the place around Melbourne and Palm Bay. Their biggest complexes are on Palm Bay road, the city there essentially just gave them a city street so they could expand their buildings then built the street around the building.

They are testing a new product now which kills all cell signal within X range. The claims are its to be sold to movie theaters so they can stop people from using cells phones in theaters but my bet is it will be sold to hotels and other places like that so they can force you to use their services.

Anyway you can bet your ass that if you are in or around those areas of Melb/Palm Bay that your phone is being tracked, if by nothing else but for their testing facilities.

You don't seem to know how they use this stuff.. They pretend they got a tip and won't even tell you that they got you via this system.. Kinda like the NSA/FBI giving local police departments tips when they find something interesting in their phone survallence. They don't tell you even in court that you were caught via the phone spying. They just claim an anyomous tip. Then they have to do the leg work to build the actual case, which is much easier being they know what crime to build that case on.

But if you don't have anything to hide.....
If you are not doing anything wrong then you would cooperate.

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you don't seem to know my joke went right over your head.

Yea, they are just a little 5 billion dollars a year govt contractor which no one has heard of.. Makes you wonder how many others are like that. That whole area where I grew up was like the silicon valley of Govt contractors. Every major govt/military tech contractor had places around there. There are 3 Air Force bases there in Brevard County as well as NASA at cape canaveral.

And you know what gets me the most????

If I even dare say we should consider NOT using the technologies there will be mass hoards labeling me a "Luddite" and attacking me as being anti-progress.

Jesus fucking cryst, you guys just leave those things to stand ?

I guess it's like fishing -- you release the ones you don't really need AND the ones you can't keep.

It's unlawful but it's not that shocking. The whole warrantless thing is a crock of shit.

I have mentioned this before with regard to my companies activities some of which are copycat activities of both local and federal law enforcement.

A monitored call as well as harvested data may ne be allowed in court but the information produced is often the groundwork for legally (Warrants/Wire Tap Orders) being issued by judges.

Stingray is a more evolved method of some of the older information gathering techniques used.

Cell Phones and Cordless Phones are monitored on a large scale world wide by many agencies and also by people not involved in the apprehension and prosecution of criminals.

Admissibility in court has become secondary to data, information, intelligence gathering in an effort to produce admissible data, information, and intelligence.

Wireless phones do not enjoy all of the same legal protections wired phones do and no phone and many of your conversations in person are intercepted while not publicly allowed to be presented in front of our public court systems.

I actually just looked up that location.. The building you are talking about was the old Melboure Mall.. I had no idea Harris had taken over the entire thing. This place is giant, it used to have a Sears at one end, a Montgomery Wards store at the other and a few dozen smaller shops in between.

Granted it's been vacant for years, it's insane that company needs that much space on top of the other locations they have around that area. There are several Gruman locations over by the air port and they bring in B2 bombers and other military aircraft quite often to install special radar systems..

I knew as a kid, if we ever got in a nuclear war.. That we were pretty much blown up with all the shit around there.. :1orglaugh

Yes this is the problem, they are mass collecting data but don't use it in the actual cases but rather use it as a way to pin point a crime..

Example, with stingray system, they can have a crime take place then go back and check their data to see if any cellphone were in that location. They now instantly have suspects being the owner of anyone's phone whom was in that location at that time.

They can't use it in court, but they can use the information to bluff someone into admitting guilt or use the info to developers probably cause. They then just claim an anti out source gave them the info..

There is no need to install tracking chips in people.. We willingly pay out our cash to buy them and use them everyday.

It all sounds good when they are using it to catch rapist, child molosters and violent criminals, but these tools eventually always end up being used on normal people.. Just like the warrant less wire taps were orginally supported to be just for extreme cases of national security.. Yet now it's used on everyone with a cell phone by the NSA.

And they work in shifts, the lot was almost full at night. From the hotel window it did look just like a mall, makes sense now. Can you imagine the cost of gutting and remodeling an entire shopping center? The government is spending a fortune in tax money on these privately developed systems.

I remember seeing a Defcon presentation where a guy spoofed a Cell tower using a laptop and a ham radio receiver. He was able to bump the phone down from 3g to 2g so he could intercept the calls.

Yea it's insane and that is just one company there. That whole area has places like that, with Gruman, Space X, DRS, Locheed, Martin Marietta (sp?) the list goes on and on.. There is billions in govt contracts in that area not to mention the non govt work those type of companies do..

You wouldn't think it, just by looking and driving around, but there is a lot of big money around there it's just not a big money looking area.

Anyway if you ever stay down there again, go to downtown Melbourne.. Lots of little bars and a pretty decent down town scene (Foobar is my favorite). They have a Friday Fest every 2nd Friday of the month where they close off the roads in downtown and have a block party.

That is crazy. looks like ill just start using pay phones

pretty sure I just saw that 'story' as the plot for a TV show :2 cents:

Do not forget that most recipients of SNAP (Food Stamps) and many other government assistance programs are eligible for a no cost SafeLink cellphone also. If you can not afford 1 they will give you 1 so they can keep tabs on you.

If you are a fan of CBS Tuesday nights and watch "Person of Interest" you see some of this as well as other things that 98% of the population would never believe were true. Those of us in the know understand how realistic/true to life it actually is. In the program itself they do a certain amount of leading and make you do a little guessing but it is more a docu-drama then a straight drama/action based program.

Art almost always imitates life, this includes most fiction.

A great deal of our modern microprocessor controlled electronic devices are back doored and does phone home a report periodically. Forensics has become much easier recently.

I stopped using my phone for illegal activities a long time ago. Now I just use smoke signals. :pimp

Yes.. for certain always leave your cell phone at home when you plan to rob someone.. This gives you denialibty. You can be like "bitches check yalls stingrays.. Yo.. I waz at home!" :1orglaugh

what do you have to hide?

they want to keep it secret for as long as possible.

well, they're camoflaged to blend in and are hard to spot.

http://i.imgur.com/T4LR3q0.jpg

The problem is, it's not like cops/Feds couldn't get the exact same info with a warrant from the cell phone companies. It's just doing it that way requires probable cause to get the warrant.

Instead they want to short cut and ignore the very system set in place to protect our rights. Everyone should be pissed about this kind of stuff. Sadly most people just don't seem to give a damn, so it continues to happen and they continue to push further & further beyond the protections the bill of rights provides. Eventually, it will become a time when the bill of rights will be worth nothing more than toilet paper.

Correct, see post #26 .........


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White Anglo Saxon Culture.

People will whine, bitch, complain and even "buy more guns". But it's all fucking hot and bullshit. No one.. ABSOLUTELY NO ONE will lift a single finger to take down those towers.

What do you think, do special services of developed countries have already enough hardware and technologies to record all cell phone talks and store the data indefinitely?