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along_the_road@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 7 days ago

How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones

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How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones

www.forbes.com

along_the_road@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 7 days ago
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ICE is using a controversial spy tool to locate smartphones, court records show.
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    Great example of slippery slope privacy invasion in action. These stingray device were introduced for “counter terrorism” because who would support terrorists.

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      Tbh, I do. I do support terrorists. Funnily enough, they’re not rarely the more moral party (in my kinda twisted sense of morality, anyway).

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        One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

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        So they are often the more moral party?

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    Rayhunter is the way.

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      Not sure if this is a thing on other android /iOS devices,but this setting is very much appreciated on graphrneOS

      And you can set your network to ONLY use LTE and check the towers your phone is using by using the hidden testing setting on Android by entering

      *#*#4636#*#*
      

      on your phones default dialer.

      And this app for android is particularly useful:

      https://f-droid.org/packages/com.craxiom.networksurvey

      Scans cell towers, WiFi signals, Bluetooth, and notifies if a new tower is found.

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        Lockdown node on Ios has the 2g toggle

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    ice is very very far from being the only org that does this

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    You can also just access cell infra operator log. I can imagine they have a realtime API.

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