Spyware Company Leaves Terabytes of Data Unprotected Spyfone, a software company that allows parents to spy on their kids, spouses to spy on each other and employers to spy on employees allowed the world to spy on everyone. The data left exposed on Amazon included photos, text messages, contacts, location information, Facebook messages and other […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week I wrote about the problem of fake cell towers in DC. Well, the story has some interesting twists and turns. First, the largest maker of these devices (at least as best we know) is Harris Corp., maker of the Stingray family. Harris has been so closed mouthed about them that they have made […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Federal judge in New York tossed evidence in a drug bust based on the use of a Stingray cell site simulator, But the devil is in the details. To be clear, this is not about getting a warrant to use a Stingray and catching a drug dealer. This is about lying to or omitting […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written several items about cell site simulators or Stingrays. Dirtboxes are stingray-like devices hung from an airplane that DoJ agencies use to capture tens of thousands of cell phones as they fly over hundreds of miles. I said early on that it was going to be years before the crap hit the fan, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ars Technica reported about yet another case where prosecutors dropped charges against 4 suspects who robbed 7 people, including one who needed 18 stitches, rather than disclose information about the use of a Harris Stingray. Or at least that’s what we think. The cops told the press that is was not related to “technology” (preferring […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The ACLU put together an interesting web page (see here). By surfing the web, they have put together a map with information – as best they have at the moment – of what states are using Stingrays to track citizens and what states are not. I say citizens and not crooks because a Stingray will collect […]
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