QuoteA security company selling Samsung Galaxy S3s with enhanced encryption says it has found 19 'phony cell towers' located throughout the United States.

Customers using the Cryptophone 500, sold by ESD America, have detected signals from transmitters masquerading as cell towers that, if a cell phone connects to it, can track the phone's location or leave data on its operating system vulnerable to attacks.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2742820/Encrypted-cell-phones-spotting-fake-cell-towers-gain-access-smartphone-operating-systems.html#ixzz3CM2I8cf3

This is interesting...  I need more data, but it's on my radar...

Excuse me for asking the obvious question here. But would someone tell me please how a person or person's, set up not one, not two, not three, but damn near 20 fake cell phone towers and no one, notices before now?

I mean these are not exactly little. A cell tower is not like your DISH t.v. system ya know. 

Damn Americans truly are either stupid or blind if someone can do this, and no one, no one, notices until month's possibly years later.

BTW my money is on the latter there, I refuse to believe Americans are stupid.

Blinded by liberalism and other mental illness sure.

But stupid, never!

First they make the technology available for us to use only to compromise those that use it. Interesting!

I didn't get it.. What does this fake towers means like... Are they starting their own network? Or they are rising other companies towers... And if so... what benefit they will get??????

Quote from: sensualblighter on October 22, 2014, 12:18:45 AM
I didn't get it.. What does this fake towers means like... Are they starting their own network? Or they are rising other companies towers... And if so... what benefit they will get??????

Eavesdropping.

Quote from: daidalos on September 14, 2014, 11:09:41 PM
Excuse me for asking the obvious question here. But would someone tell me please how a person or person's, set up not one, not two, not three, but damn near 20 fake cell phone towers and no one, notices before now?

I mean these are not exactly little. A cell tower is not like your DISH t.v. system ya know. 

Damn Americans truly are either stupid or blind if someone can do this, and no one, no one, notices until month's possibly years later.

BTW my money is on the latter there, I refuse to believe Americans are stupid.

Blinded by liberalism and other mental illness sure.

But stupid, never!

I think it's more about the average American not being able to identify a fake cell tower used to data mine versus a real cell tower. I know I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Quote from: MACMan on September 04, 2014, 06:51:20 AM

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2742820/Encrypted-cell-phones-spotting-fake-cell-towers-gain-access-smartphone-operating-systems.html#ixzz3CM2I8cf3

Looks like it's our dear leaders spying on us again. I remember reading an article (not infowars, it was a legit news site) that the Feds set up these towers to track "criminals" cellphones but also track thousands of others in the process.

Even more scary, here's an article describing how the government flies Cessnas around the country to act as mobile cell phone towers to trick your phone into connecting to it and reveal your location!

http://m.wsj.com/articles/americans-cellphones-targeted-in-secret-u-s-spy-program-1415917533?mobile=y

Again, this isn't coming from the looney bin crowd. These are major news sources.

Sorry, that link may be behind a paywall. Not sure. Here's one from CNN

http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/13/technology/security/federal-planes-spy/

Quote from: Hector on November 16, 2014, 10:31:01 PM
Sorry, that link may be behind a paywall. Not sure. Here's one from CNN

http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/13/technology/security/federal-planes-spy/

Did anyone catch the semantics in the DOJ statement?

"... seeking court approval."

Court "approval" is not the same as a warrant!

Darth

Quote from: daidalos on September 14, 2014, 11:09:41 PM
Excuse me for asking the obvious question here. But would someone tell me please how a person or person's, set up not one, not two, not three, but damn near 20 fake cell phone towers and no one, notices before now?

It may be worse than you think.  I know of a church that was approached and asked if they could set up a cell tower inside their steeple that sits on the top of the church.  It would be housed inside the steeple tower and not visible like those Christmas tree things you see along the highway.

Quote from: Dori on November 17, 2014, 09:13:37 AM
It may be worse than you think.  I know of a church that was approached and asked if they could set up a cell tower inside their steeple that sits on the top of the church.  It would be housed inside the steeple tower and not visible like those Christmas tree things you see along the highway.

While that might be a cause for concern, I'm not so sure it is. It is probably mostly honest cell phone companies doing their best to hide the "clutter". Let's face it. Cell phone towers are not the most ascetically pleasing pieces of architecture in the modern landscape.

And, there is no way a layman would be able to tell a real cell phone tower from a fake.

Darth