Remember, spying on everyone is only OK if it's done by the federal government.
can i get uhhh literally the first paragraph in the article
For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged the existence in Washington of what appear to be rogue devices that foreign spies and criminals could be using to track individual cellphones and intercept calls and messages.
The use of what are known as cellphone-site simulators by foreign powers has long been a concern, but American intelligence and law enforcement agencies — which use such eavesdropping equipment themselves — have been silent on the issue until now.
Man... this is worrisome. Foreign powers seem to REALLY be upping their information warfare game as of recent. Imagine if a foreign power actually initiated a large-scale attack on our internet backbone or large-scale radio frequency jamming. Things would go to hell real quick. Let's hope newer cell phones and/or cell networks like 5G find some ways to combat spying vectors like this.
buy a vpn
"Buy a VPN"
Yeah, in this economy? Pffft.
I detected that as sarcasm immediately, lol, but it seems nobody else did. I witness this a lot online, so I am wondering if it's mainly just because Britain is a significantly more sarcastic place than America. I hope this does not come across as hostile - I just brought this up because it's quite interesting to me.
In terms of the story itself, it doesn't surprise me at all. Even though this isn't the case for this story, one of the big pitfalls with government agencies spying on people and creating back doors is that it gives other governments (and sometimes criminals) ideas themselves. Even worse, sometimes foreign governments and criminals simply use the same technology.
…the first comment was a poster from the US?
Go buy a raspberry pi and turn it into a pi-hole. It'll secure your whole network, blocks ads, and acts as a local DNS cache.
I know, but I am from Britain and we are sarcastic more often. I apologise that this wasn't clear.
I assume these are IMSI catchers. You can get the information online and they cost about $200 to make, iirc.
Of course that's not necessarily a high-powered or directed model like what I assume foreign governments use.
The main catch with these things is that they're active devices, so police can track you down fairly easily if they notice something suspicious is going on.
It would probably be possible to program cell phone towers to detect these automatically, if that's not already being done.
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