Thus, the client privilege could be broken. That confidential information would then be shared by local police and local prosecutors.
The Stringray could easily pickup a local lawyers talking to his client. The problem with local police using Stringrays on patrol is obvious. Today, the ACLU and ACLU affiliates in Northern California, New York, and Maryland, joined by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, are urging the Federal Communications Commission to order local police to stop using Stingrays, at least until the FCC can create rules to protect against excessive secrecy and abuse.” – ACLU “For years, state and local police departments across the country have been using Stingrays to track and locate phones in the absence of effective oversight from federal agencies. didn’t respond to a request for comment.” –law360 In February, Nelson pointed to a Washington Post article that detailed local police departments’ use of StingRays to collect data on phone calls, and asked the FCC to clarify its certification process and oversight of the devices… A representative for Harris Corp. “The commission has no information about the extent to which or conditions under which law enforcement has obtained authority to use the devices,” Wheeler said. was contingent upon the conditions that they only be sold to law enforcement officials and that state and local agencies must coordinate their use of StingRays and other “International Mobile Subscriber Identity catchers” with the FBI, but revealed the limitations of the FCC’s involvement.” Bill Nelson, D-Fla., confirmed that the FCC’s certification of the devices manufactured by Harris Corp. senator that the agency has essentially no authority over state and local law enforcement agencies’ use of cellphone tracking devices known as “StingRays.” Wheeler’s response to an inquiry by Sen. Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, Chairman Tom Wheeler told a U.S. “New York (April 29, 2015, 4:48 PM EDT) - In a letter released by the U.S. Basically, the FCC has stuck its head into the sand. The FCC has defacto made and exception for “Stingray” devices. In effect the manufacturers are selling the tin pot Emperor’s in LEAs some myth of the finary of their product whilst in reality gulling them of their budgets that come from the tax dollars ordinary everyday folk pay… Thus without doubt the manufacturers are criminals at many levels, and potentially more of a cancer on society than more traditional criminals.Īs has been noted befor “Sunlight is a strong disinfectant”, thus the more light shone on these corporate criminals the better for they truly are as a cancer killing society. What scares them most is that their “sales talk” will get ridiculed by actual domain experts, thus their bottom line will be effected.
Such lying to customers is obvious when it comes to the lengths that the manufacturers go to to prevent information becoming known. Thus they are themselves in a form of denial for the sake of profit with respect to their customers. Thus two observations can be made,ġ, Stingrays will not work against those who use other communications methods.Ģ, Stingrays are thus an expensive way to catch the low hanging fruit of criminals, or to illegally spy on the more or less innocent masses.īut a third point can be made, the manufactureres of these over priced toys know that they are of little or no use against the serious threats to society (organised crime etc). The simple fact is that the likes of Stingray devices whilst not being “one trick ponies” only do their stuff in one circus ring. I’ve described this in more detail in the past when talking about having “bot nets” not having a fixed IP or DNS named server such that the control channel can not be taken over. There are also tricks you can use via Internet search engines and One Time Messages, that alow people to have communication but not through a single server etc. You also change the phone and SIM frequently.
#SNOOPWARE SOFTWARE FOR CELL PHONES CODE#
That is it’s “normal state” you also have a pager and those that wish to contact you urgently send a “One Time Message” that signifies in code who they are and which number to call and at what time. One such is having a non smart phone that you can take the battery out of. Well, certain people should finaly stop being in denial mode about this, but I’m fairly sure that they will keep their heads in rhe “sand-trap”.įor those that care to look P, myself and one or two others have discussed mittigation factors.
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