Sentences with phrase «fake cell towers»

Unfortunately, if police can use fake cell towers to force our phones to leak our private information, there is nothing to stop criminals and foreign nations from learning to do the same (in fact a cell - site simulator can be

Unfortunately, if police can use fake cell towers to force our phones to leak our private information, there is nothing to stop criminals and foreign nations from learning to do the same (in fact a cell - site simulator can be built right now for about $ 1,500).

DHS doesn't know who's operating them or why, or whether these fake cell towers are installed elsewhere in the country.

The new 38 - page complaint makes a creative argument that because stingrays, or cell - site simulators, act as fake cell towers, that law enforcement agencies lack the spectrum licenses to be able to broadcast at the relevant frequencies.

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The secretive nature of stingray use has begun to backfire on law enforcement, however, with states beginning to pass laws that require police to obtain a warrant before they can set up a fake cell phone tower for surveillance.

Stingrays, otherwise known as cell - site simulators, act as a fake cell - phone tower.

The device, which acts as a fake cell phone tower, essentially allows the government to electronically search large areas for a particular cell phone's signal — sucking down data on potentially thousands of innocent people along the way.