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The One
4th September 2014, 11:23
NSA anyone

Fake masts are discovered by people using a heavily customised Android device - but it's unclear who owns them.

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Mysterious fake mobile phone towers discovered across America could be listening in on unsuspecting callers.

A report by Popular Science says the towers have been discovered across the country, and have the ability to attack mobile phones through eavesdropping and installing spyware.

They were discovered by people using a heavily customised Android device called the CryptoPhone 500.

It uses a secure version of the software which can tell if the phone is being subjected to what is known as a baseband attack.

It is then possible to trace the location of the offending tower.

The fake cell towers were detected in July, but the report states there could be more.

Les Goldsmith, chief executive of security firm ESD America, told the magazine: "Interceptor use in the US is much higher than people had anticipated.

"One of our customers took a road trip from Florida to North Carolina and he found eight different interceptors on that trip. We even found one at a casino in Las Vegas."

He said several of the masts were situated near US military bases.

"What we find suspicious is that a lot of these interceptors are right on top of US military bases," he said.

"So we begin to wonder - are some of them US government interceptors? Or are some of them Chinese interceptors?

"Whose interceptor is it? Who are they, that's listening to calls around military bases? Is it just the US military, or are they foreign governments doing it? The point is: we don't really know whose they are."

http://news.sky.com/story/1329375/mysterious-fake-mobile-phone-towers-discovered

norman
4th September 2014, 13:17
"The point is: we don't really know whose they are"



Amazing.

IF they were foreign origin it would be even more amazing, and a slap in the face for economic globalism.

BabaRa
4th September 2014, 17:46
"Whose interceptor is it? Who are they, that's listening to calls around military bases? Is it just the US military, or are they foreign governments doing it? The point is: we don't really know whose they are."



WE, don't know and may never know for sure because if it's ever investigated we'll. be given some usual 'spin -bs answer'. But somebody knows and it's hard to believe if they are on top of military bases that someone high up in the military doesn't know. China constructing high towers on top of our military bases (without the militarys knowledge) is difficult to swallow.

It's a well known fact that the CIA, FBI, NSA don't work together - more than that don't like each other and are competitive. Same competitiveness with each arm of the military (Navy, Army, Air Force). They hold information from each other. Could be any of them spying on each other as well as us.

Great movie - not new called "Chain Reaction" with Morgan Freeman and Keanu Reeves. Gives a pretty good portrayal of some of the things that go on within the US - it's also entertaining.

norman
4th September 2014, 18:08
It's LEAST likely to be the N.S.A. because they are the one entity that doesn't need to do it that way.

I was thinking it's most likely a foreign country's secret service but I hadn't thought of the US inter agency rivalry that Bab has brought up.

Wolf Khan
5th September 2014, 05:12
It could have been a joint op with another country then suborned to be the curse it is now, oh wait, it was designed to be a serpents trap for us.

BabaRa
5th September 2014, 06:02
Here's Natural News' take on the story:

The one conspiracy theory the media instantly believes?

What's fishy here is that this is precisely the kind of story the mainstream media would normally attack and disregard as a "conspiracy theory." Remember, this is the same mainstream media that has utterly censored and "memory holed" the recent confession of a CDC scientist who admitted to committing scientific fraud to hide links between MMR vaccines and autism. That story has been completely blacked out by the media as if it didn't exist.

This is also the same mainstream media that, for years, called people tin foil hat-wearing lunatics if they said the U.S. government was listening to our phone calls and monitoring our emails. Thanks to whistleblower Edward Snowden, of course, this is all out in the open now, but just five years ago anyone who dared suggest such a thing was labeled a "wing nut."

I remember Alex Jones being ridiculed over his breaking story that cities were installing street lamps that could listen to the verbal conversations of people passing by. That story once again turned out to be entirely true, yet it was widely disparaged by the mainstream media which seems to default to the phrase "conspiracy theory" any time they want to dismiss a true story without actually having to investigate it.

Never forget that the media is in the business of censoring the truth, not printing it

The mainstream media, you see, has always been stupidly slow to recognize reality. Anything that doesn't fall in line with barking orders from Washington D.C. or corporate sponsors has been ridiculed as a conspiracy theory or censored entirely. To this day, the media still ridicules all the architects and engineers who question the lunacy of the official 9/11 story. That official story still claims that the third building which collapsed that day -- WTC 7 -- magically lost all structural column support and collapsed in a perfect demolition footprint even though it was never struck by any airplane. The official story defies the laws of physics, yet the media has never had any problem with repeating it as if it were fact.

Yet now, this "interceptor cell tower" story is suddenly and instantly embraced across the mainstream media as true. All the media outlets that normally scream "conspiracy theory!" are reporting these secret cell towers as fact. Something's fishy here.

It could be that this entire story is a hoax and they're watching to see who picks up on it. Later, they might run a new headline, "How we hoaxed the gullible internet with a goofy story about fake cell phone towers" or something similar.

Or, on the positive side of this, perhaps the mainstream media has finally realized it needs to start covering the truth from time to time in order to stop losing so many readers. While the alternative media has been exploding in popularity, the mainstream media has been bleeding out in terms of readership. The public craves the truth, and there is zero loyalty to mainstream news sources in the minds of content consumers.

Bottom line: Any story the mainstream media jumps on must be immediately questioned. This doesn't automatically mean the story isn't true, but we must always keep the real agenda of the media in mind as we analyze these developments.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/046735_cell_phone_towers_covert_surveillance_consp iracy_theories.html#ixzz3CQ0Aak00

skywizard
6th September 2014, 01:56
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There’s been an uproar this week following a Popular Science report that revealed the
existence of more than a dozen cell phone-type towers across the United States for which
no owner could be located or operator identified.

Business Insider reported the towers “appear to be connecting to nearby phones, bypassing their encryption, and either tapping calls or reading texts.”

The report said the “fake communication towers are undetectable” for most telephone users, but a new and pricey product, called a cryptophone, confirmed a number of “bogus cell phone towers.”

As for those who own and run the towers? Les Goldsmith, an expert in phone technology, said it just isn’t known.

“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?” he asked in a Popular Science interview. “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.”

Whatever the source, America has an increasing privacy problem, according to experts in the field.

“The [National Security Agency] revelations of the past year show that we have no privacy,” said John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties organization.

Whitehead is also the author of “A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State.”


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and “Police State USA: How Orwell’s Nightmare is Becoming our Reality,” as soon as you can.

“All of our records and communications are being monitored, tracked, uploaded and stored,” he said.

Cheryl Chumley, author of “Police State USA: How Orwell’s Nightmare is Becoming our Reality,” agreed.

“Law enforcement is seeming to suggest that these phony towers are the brainchild of hackers and data thieves – and that means cell phone users around the nation need to realize their so-called private conversations are vulnerable,” she said.

“Privacy as we know it in America is dead. Drone technology is blossoming, the federal government’s already been tapping into private social media messaging, all in the name of security, the private sector is latching on to emerging technology that puts the likes of audio and video recording devices in store mannequins, and now comes a new – and unknown – entity that’s listening in on cell phone conversations.”

Whitehead said the government intelligence “agency would have to know about these towers and their existence, and they have not alerted the public.”

“If these are private interests, it could very well be tied into a government intelligence agency’s programs,” he said. “For example, it has been revealed that the NSA is working openly with Google, and Amazon just built a multi-million dollar intelligence cloud to be shared by all 17 intelligence agencies.”

Whitehead added, “What we once called privacy has clearly been extinguished, and once the drones blanket the skies beginning in 2015, even those who thought they could get off the grid will no longer be able to do so.”

Chumley said it’s “crucial for Americans to understand that putting the technology genie back in the bottle just isn’t going to happen.”

“The best course of action is assume all phone conversations, all social media messaging, and computerized correspondences are being tapped and hacked – because the truth is, they very well could be,” she said.

Radio talk-show host Katherine Albrecht, whose Spychips website tracks privacy invasions, told WND she differs from Whitehead and Chumley.

It’s very important to watch for such developments, she said.

“Is our government doing this? Or is a rogue government doing this to eavesdrop on sensitive communications?” she asked.

She said while neither is good, the idea that a foreign power, such as China or ISIS, setting up communications monitoring locations across the United States is scary.

However, it just confirms her opinion, she said, that if there is an opening for exploiting computer software, it will happen.

“This is not the time to thrown in the towel,” she said. “This is time to roll up the sleeves.”

She’s also been a key promoter of StartMail encrypted email and encrypted search functions on the Web.

According to Business Insider, there were 17 fake cell phone towers found across the U.S.

VentureBeat reported they don’t likely belong to the NSA, because “that agency can tap all it wants without the need for bogus towers.”

BI reported ComputerWorld revealed the fake towers knock the performance of a 4G phone down to that of a 2G, giving away their operations.

The Popular Science report focused on the specialized security telephones now becoming available. As part of that, it revealed that one of the phones had detected “interceptors” across the U.S., in Seattle, Denver, Los Angeles, Dallas, several points in Nevada and Arizona, Chicago, Ohio and other eastern points.

In the report, Goldsmith said: “Interceptor use in the U.S. is much higher than people had anticipated. One of our customers took a road trip from Florida to North Carolina and he found eight different interceptors on that trip. We even found one at South Point Casino in Las Vegas.”

The report said the towers 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.”

But the report said for governments, such interception is simple.

BI reported: “Whenever he wants to test out his company’s ultra-secure smart phone against an interceptor, Goldsmith drives past a certain government facility in the Nevada desert. (To avoid the attention of the gun-toting counter-intelligence agents in black SUVs who patrol the surrounding roads, he won’t identify the facility to Popular Science). He knows that someone at the facility is running an interceptor …”

A new report from CBS in Chicago said there actually were 19 such “eavesdropping devices across the country, including at least one in Chicago.”



Source: http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/security-experts-weigh-in-on-mystery-cell-phone-towers/



peace...

norman
10th September 2014, 09:12
This guy, Roger Tolces, talking to George Noory in the C2C show posted by Malc:

http://jandeane81.com/threads/4124-Coast-to-Coast-ESP-amp-Psychic-Research-07-September-2014?p=31759&viewfull=1#post31759

Explains very well how this interception thing works and has a view about what this story is about.

He also gives us a great tip to suss if our mobile phone has been intercepted, basically, if you keep a log of your calls and check your billing list for calls you know you made but are not listed on your billing list, they were intercepted and the call went through a different route that prevented it from being charged for by your normal service provider.


Cell Phone Interception
First hour guest, private investigator Roger Tolces, commented on the discovery of mysterious fake cell towers. The towers were detected by people using the CryptoPhone 500, which can issue notifications to users when their calls are not encrypted (normal mobile calls are encrypted by cell towers). Tolces finds it more likely that if law enforcement is behind the interception of calls, they would not use a stationary location, but rather a van that could be placed in an area of interest. If your calls are being intercepted, the record of them won't show up on your bill, he revealed.