A recent publication by Popular Science details how over a dozen mysterious, phony cell phone towers have been discovered, most of them on our military bases.
These phony towers, called interceptors, have the ability to override the encryption in your phone, leaving your calls insecure.
Some are powerful enough to take over a device and make it seem like it has shut down – only to leave the microphone on for eavesdropping.
This is complimentary to the Stingray, which are fake towers used by local law enforcement across the country with similar capabilities.
To show what the CryptoPhone can do that less expensive competitors cannot, he points me to a map that he and his customers have created, indicating 17 different phony cell towers known as “interceptors,” detected by the CryptoPhone 500 around the United States during the month of July alone. (The map below is from August.) Interceptors look to a typical phone like an ordinary tower. Once the phone connects with the interceptor, a variety of “over-the-air” attacks become possible, from eavesdropping on calls and texts to pushing spyware to the device.
August GSM Interceptor MapESD“Interceptor use in the U.S. is much higher than people had anticipated,” Goldsmith says. “One of our customers took a road trip from Florida to North Carolina and he found 8 different interceptors on that trip. We even found one at South Point Casino in Las Vegas.”
Who is running these interceptors and what are they doing with the calls?Who is running these interceptors and what are they doing with the calls? Goldsmith says we can’t be sure, but he has his suspicions.
“What we find suspicious is that a lot of these interceptors are right on top of U.S. military bases. So we begin to wonder – are some of them U.S. government interceptors? Or are some of them Chinese interceptors?” says Goldsmith. “Whose interceptor is it? Who are they, that’s listening to calls around military bases? Is it just the U.S. military, or are they foreign governments doing it? The point is: we don’t really know whose they are.”
Ciphering DisabledLes GoldsmithInterceptors vary widely in expense and sophistication – but in a nutshell, they are radio-equipped computers with software that can use arcane cellular network protocols and defeat the onboard encryption. Whether your phone uses Android or iOS, it also has a second operating system that runs on a part of the phone called a baseband processor. The baseband processor functions as a communications middleman between the phone’s main O.S. and the cell towers. And because chip manufacturers jealously guard details about the baseband O.S., it has been too challenging a target for garden-variety hackers.
“The baseband processor is one of the more difficult things to get into or even communicate with,” says Mathew Rowley, a senior security consultant at Matasano Security. “[That’s] because my computer doesn’t speak 4G or GSM, and also all those protocols are encrypted. You have to buy special hardware to get in the air and pull down the waves and try to figure out what they mean. It’s just pretty unrealistic for the general community.”
But for governments or other entities able to afford a price tag of “less than $100,000,” says Goldsmith, high-quality interceptors are quite realistic. Some interceptors are limited, only able to passively listen to either outgoing or incoming calls. But full-featured devices like the VME Dominator, available only to government agencies, can not only capture calls and texts, but even actively control the phone, sending out spoof texts, for example. Edward Snowden revealed that the N.S.A. is capable of an over-the-air attack that tells the phone to fake a shut-down while leaving the microphone running, turning the seemingly deactivated phone into a bug. Andvarious ethical hackers have demonstrated DIY interceptor projects, using a software programmable radio and the open-source base station software package OpenBTS – this creates a basic interceptor for less than $3,000. On August 11, the F.C.C. announced an investigation into the use of interceptors against Americans by foreign intelligence services and criminal gangs.
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would not put it past o and his co horts.
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obama
Regardless of their name, Hamas, Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, whatever, every Islamic Terrorist group has the same agenda, the slavery of every child and woman on the earth and the death of every Jew. To support one of them is to support murder and slavery.
Radical Islam Terrorism is the War on Women.
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While your kids learn to be politically correct, their kids learn how to kill.
http://conservativetribune.com/cia-white-house-infiltrated-islamists/
http://www.teaparty.org/report-obama-given-detailed-intelligence-year-isis-hes-reading-53671/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=social
http://topconservativenews.com/2013/07/obama-gives-kenya-53-million-to-pay-for-the-same-voter-ids-he-opposes-in-the-us/
Why does the Democratic Party want people who can not prove they are citizens of the United States to be able to vote?
Analytic Trouble Shooting sets out a process by which you can identify the root cause of a problem and come up with a solution. What does what when, why, and how.
I have been in maintenance all my life. When something doesn’t work the way it should you trace out all the parts of a circuit and find the part that is not functioning correctly.
http://topconservativenews.com/2014/03/did-the-us-government-pay-for-violence-in-the-ukraine/
All the parts of the United States that are not working correctly are in Washington, DC.
Why is the United States of America supporting and financing Terrorists?
Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama and the Arab Spring . Barrack Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood. We know where they stand on Human Rights and Freedom. The Muslim Brotherhood is a Terrorist Organization. It always has been.
In nations with Sharia Law a child or a woman is only a slave and has no Human Rights or Freedoms.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/president-morsi-called-for-the-destruction-of-israel-and-terrorist-attacks-on-jews-around-the-world/
Barrack Obama, Joe Biden, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, and Mike Bloomberg love gun control more than Adolf Hitler did, for the same reason.
Who do you think was behind the Regime Change and all the violence in the Ukraine?
George Soros, our CIA, and the National Endowment for Democracy.
Ukrainian gold is gone.
The U.S. Appointed former IMF official Arseniy Yatsenyuk Prime Minister of Ukraine.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk has rewarded the U.S. by giving all of Ukraine’s Gold to the American Banks in exchange for loans.
The U.S. criminal actions set a dangerous precedence for a U.S. global GOLD GRAB.
This is how the swindle works:
If the U.S. seeks to unseat a duly elected government, or a dictator, they simply send in U.S. agents to instigate an uprising.
U.S. agents seek out, and control various factions who oppose the current régime by supplying them with money, leadership, and weapons if necessary.
U.S. agents unleash their opposition forces, only if the current régime fails to capitulate to U.S. demands.
This system is used to seat Puppet Governments, and hold opposition forces in check until needed.
This Arrangement also allows the U.S. to loot the smaller nations of GOLD, OIL, or anything else they find of value, while forcing the smaller Nations to trade
in U.S. Dollars, these allows the Central Bank a little more time to continue their paper Ponzi scheme.
Blackwater was spotted in Ukraine prior to the protests and overthrow. It has been suspected that the sniper activity was not done by Ukraine government forces. That the US is involved in, if not completely behind the Coup in Ukraine is pretty obvious. How people can say that a coup is “legitimate” while democratic referendums are not amazes me.
No Incumbents.
spies don t we execute spies anymore even if it our own gov.
…..seems legit
why not?
doesn’t surprise me, spying on us any way they can