Thursday, December 1, 2011

UK Cops Using Fake Mobile Phone Tower to Intercept Calls, Shut Off Phones

Tom Stedham
Verbatim Post
Something to be aware of: the gov't can easily intercept, track, record, spoof, and shut down all cell phone traffic. Period.

"Britain’s largest police force has been using covert surveillance technology that can masquerade as a mobile phone network to intercept communications and unique IDs from phones or even transmit a signal to shut off phones remotely, according to the Guardian.
"The FBI is known to use a similar technology called Triggerfish, which also pretends to be a legitimate cell tower base station to trick mobile phones into connecting to it. The Triggerfish system, however, collects only location and other identifying information, and does not intercept phone calls, text messages, and other data.
"Last year at the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas, security researcher Chris Paget demonstrated a low-cost, home-brewed device that mimics the IMSI catchers that U.S. law enforcement agencies use."


Yikes... Also, hackers can do it with a laptop and a little bit of knowledge. See this article:

And:

OPSEC: consider ALL COMMUNICATIONS to be compromised and under surveillance, and act accordingly.


TOM STEDHAM

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 1, 2011 at 2:35 PM

    "The Triggerfish system, however, collects only location and other identifying information, and does not intercept phone calls, text messages, and other data."

    That is the biggest piece of BS I have ever heard but not surprising coming from the government. In 2006 an AT@T employee became a whistleblower, exposing the NSA's monitoring of emails.

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  2. Brock TownsendDecember 1, 2011 at 2:45 PM

    That is the biggest piece of BS I have ever heard but not surprising coming from the government.

    As I've fond of saying, nothing surprises me these days.

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