Jump to content

Local law enforcement deploying fake base stations for tracking, eavesdropping

Rawvega

By Rawvega
in General Topics

 Share

Recommended Posts

Rawvega Member Level: 4G LTE

Rawvega

Posted
Posted

March 16, 2014 | By Tammy Parker

 

Fake base stations have been used by the federal government for years but now have been adopted by local law enforcement agencies, and privacy advocates are not happy about it.

 

Read more: Local law enforcement deploying fake base stations for tracking, eavesdropping - FierceWirelessTech http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/local-law-enforcement-deploying-fake-base-stations-tracking-eavesdropping/2014-03-16#ixzz2wL3PlwhU 

Subscribe at FierceWirelessTech

 

 

 

 

Gotta say, I'm not a fan of this.  :secret:

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
MacinJosh Member Level: LTE Advanced

MacinJosh

Posted
Posted

Eavesdropping? So now local law enforcement thinks we are all terrorists too? What an invasion of privacy! Stop police corruption!

 

 

Sent from Josh's iPhone 5S using Tapatalk 2

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Destroyallcubes Member Level: 4G LTE

Destroyallcubes

Posted
Posted

I don't think they would ever be able to have them here. Way too many people here would be pissy, and our "church owned" town just barely got beer/wine approved for sale. But there should be some sort of limitation, like only being able to listen/track users that are high level targets.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
belusnecropolis Member Level: 4G WiMax

belusnecropolis

Posted
Posted

I have been following this story pretty solid. They have 2 kinds of these devices, one that offers simple Geo data, and another that is much smarter. Your data is essentially routed through their femtocell. You can imagine the implications with that. I have been trolling the area here looking for them, no luck yet, but I sure will post when I find anything good.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
cdk Member Level: 4G LTE

cdk

Posted
Posted

I have been following this story pretty solid. They have 2 kinds of these devices, one that offers simple Geo data, and another that is much smarter. Your data is essentially routed through their femtocell. You can imagine the implications with that. I have been trolling the area here looking for them, no luck yet, but I sure will post when I find anything good.

 

I wonder what Signal Check Pro would show connected to one of them???

Link to comment
Share on other sites
belusnecropolis Member Level: 4G WiMax

belusnecropolis

Posted
Posted

I wonder what Signal Check Pro would show connected to one of them???

I have been trying with scp, as well as a couple other methods. So far just the standard stuff. I am unaware as to how they can specifically target one user if the method is to simply use signal strength to grab your line in a dragnet sense, but the technology is definitely available once you are identified through the back haul or on their network per se. What it would read I have yet to identify. I am trying, though.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
RichardXy Member Level: 3G EVDO

RichardXy

Posted
Posted

Most California agencies use it and have been for years. Sent from my Nexus 5

Law enforcement doesn't have "special rights" so if they can do this anyone can as long as it seves a public interest which I'm sure is their argument. Just saying.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
jegillis Member Level: 3G EVDO

jegillis

Posted
Posted

I don't think they would ever be able to have them here. Way too many people here would be pissy, and our "church owned" town just barely got beer/wine approved for sale. But there should be some sort of limitation, like only being able to listen/track users that are high level targets.

 

 

the limit used to be the necessity for a search warrant 

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • large.unreadcontent.png.6ef00db54e758d06

  • gallery_1_23_9202.png

  • Posts

    • topdownat4
      Keep a Word, Drop a Word #7

      By topdownat4 · Posted

      Fury Gran Coupe (My First Car - What a Boat...)
    • dkyeager
      Dish Network/Boost Mobile cell/5G buildout thread

      By dkyeager · Posted

      Definite usage quirks in hunting down these sites with a rainbow sim in a s24 ultra. Fell into a hole yesterday so sent off to T-Mobile purgatory. Try my various techniques. No Dish. Get within binocular range of former Sprint colocation and can see Dish equipment. Try to manually set network and everybody but no Dish is listed.  Airplane mode, restart, turn on and off sim, still no Dish. Pull upto 200ft from site straight on with antenna.  Still no Dish. Get to manual network hunting again on phone, power off phone for two minutes. Finally see Dish in manual network selection and choose it. Great signal as expected. I still think the 15 minute rule might work but lack patience. (With Sprint years ago, while roaming on AT&T, the phone would check for Sprint about every fifteen minutes. So at highway speed you could get to about the third Sprint site before roaming would end). Using both cellmapper and signalcheck.net maps to hunt down these sites. Cellmapper response is almost immediate these days (was taking weeks many months ago).  Their idea of where a site can be is often many miles apart. Of course not the same dataset. Also different ideas as how to label a site, but sector details can match with enough data (mimo makes this hard with its many sectors). Dish was using county spacing in a flat suburban area, but is now denser in a hilly richer suburban area.  Likely density of customers makes no difference as a poorer urban area with likely more Dish customers still has country spacing of sites.
    • dkyeager
      SignalCheck Beta Crew Forum

      By dkyeager · Posted

      Mike if you need more Dish data, I have been hunting down sites in western Columbus.  So far just n70 and n71 reporting although I CA all three.
    • S4GRU
      Keep a Word, Drop a Word #7

      By S4GRU · Posted

      Nissan Coupe
    • Paynefanbro
      Network Vision/LTE - New York City Market

      By Paynefanbro · Posted

      Good catch! I meant 115932/119932. Edited my original post I've noticed the same thing lately and have just assumed that they're skipping it now because they're finally able to deploy mmWave small cells.

  • Recently Browsing

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...